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Socialist Critique of Libertarian Children’s Books Drives Massive Surge in Sales
Foundation for Economic Education ^ | October 20, 2020 | Kerry McDonald

Posted on 10/24/2020 6:55:30 PM PDT by tbw2

As Connor Boyack recently discovered, there is no such thing as bad publicity. The creator of the popular Tuttle Twins children’s book series, which reinforces libertarian values and free-market principles, saw his book sales surge after an established progressive magazine wrote a lengthy feature article attacking the books.

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TOPICS: Books/Literature
KEYWORDS: books; children; connorboyack; education; libertarian; pages; tuttletwins

1 posted on 10/24/2020 6:55:30 PM PDT by tbw2
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Socialist Critique of Libertarian Children’s Books Drives Massive Surge in Sales
The Tuttle Twins series has already sold more than 1.4 million books.
https://fee.org/articles/socialist-critique-of-libertarian-children-s-books-drives-massive-surge-in-sales


2 posted on 10/24/2020 6:55:48 PM PDT by tbw2
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To: tbw2

Ummm....

Thidwick the Big-Hearted Moose


3 posted on 10/24/2020 6:57:30 PM PDT by 2banana (Common ground with islamic terrorists-they want to die for allah and we want to arrange the meeting)
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To: tbw2; Gamecock; SaveFerris; PROCON; Rebelbase
The Tuttle Twins series

Tuttle had twins? I wasn't aware!


4 posted on 10/24/2020 7:02:40 PM PDT by Larry Lucido
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To: tbw2

F.E.E. is a great organization.

I remember reading “I, Pencil” as a young man:

https://fee.org/resources/i-pencil/

It is the cure for the “Cargo Cult” mentality of the leftists.


5 posted on 10/24/2020 7:09:45 PM PDT by cgbg (Biden n-2020: Criminal enterprise using cokehead as bagman.)
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The Tuttle Twins books take libertarian and free market themes and texts and make them accessible to children. For example, The Tuttle Twins Learn About the Law incorporates ideas from Frederic Bastiat’s essay, The Law, and The Tuttle Twins and the Search for Atlas, highlights the message from Ayn Rand’s book, Atlas Shrugged.

I was going to make a smart-ass comment about a version of The Road to Serfdom. Then I went to their page and saw:

I am too slow to do satire because reality just passes me by.

6 posted on 10/24/2020 7:17:02 PM PDT by KarlInOhio (The greatest threat to world freedom is the Chinese Communist Party and Joe Biden is their puppet.)
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I am too slow to do satire because reality just passes me by. <<<

Isn't it funny how we all are different....I am too old and too dumb to comment on reality so I resort to satire instead....../s

7 posted on 10/24/2020 7:52:52 PM PDT by M-cubed (The MSM is now the 4th Branch of Government.....)
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To: tbw2

The Streisand Effect strikes again!


8 posted on 10/24/2020 7:56:54 PM PDT by E. Pluribus Unum ("Science is the belief in the ignorance of experts." --Richard Feynman)
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So the critique said these books constituted brainwashing. It doesn’t because the kids are daily exposed to the opposite philosophy. But, heaven forbid, we let kids know there is more than one side to inconsequential topics like the economics, history, common good, law enforcement, governing.


9 posted on 10/24/2020 8:27:54 PM PDT by caseinpoint (Don't get thickly involved in thin things.)
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To: AdmSmith; AnonymousConservative; Arthur Wildfire! March; Berosus; Bockscar; cardinal4; ColdOne; ...
Nice!

10 posted on 10/26/2020 9:33:56 AM PDT by SunkenCiv (Imagine an imaginary menagerie manager imagining managing an imaginary menagerie.)
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Streisand Effect?


11 posted on 10/26/2020 9:36:34 AM PDT by FreedomPoster (Islam delenda est)
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