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Students For Liberty@sflibertyIn July 1985, over a billion people watched Live Aid.Months earlier, Michael Jackson and Lionel Richie had written "We Are the World." All of it was a response to a famine in Ethiopia.Almost nobody remembers who actually caused the famine. 🧵Students For Liberty@sfliberty·18hWhat the world saw: on October 23, 1984, the BBC aired a report by correspondent Michael Buerk with footage filmed in the Korem refugee camp by Kenyan photographer Mohamed Amin.Within weeks, 425 television stations had rebroadcast those images of starving children to roughly 470 million viewers worldwide.Students For Liberty@sfliberty·18hThe crisis was framed almost entirely as a...

One of the great strengths of Abraham Lincoln was his ability to take complicated concepts and boil them down into an easily digestible argument that even his most basic audience could understand. This was an invaluable resource for Lincoln whether addressing a jury or a gathering of potential voters and he used it frequently throughout his life. One of the best examples of this unique talent in his own handwriting comes to us from a document entitled “Pro-slavery Theology” here in the collections of the Abraham Lincoln Presidential Library and Museum. Undated, though likely written in October of 1858 during...