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Towards a Global Dystopia
There is a great and dangerous Trust seeking to form globally. Like any monopoly in days past, or OPEC now, its aim is profit. But its means are far more sinister, and potentially far more effective,...
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The Currency of Destruction
When Gary Becker put forward his idea of human capital in 1964, it was to address the effects of knowledge and training on individual economic performance. This idea can and should be extended to...
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William Ruger and Jason Sorens have identified a lacuna in both thought and rhetoric in the current conceptualization of individual freedom on the part of libertarians: an inability or perhaps...
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For our Founders and most of the enlightened thinkers of the late 17th, 18th, and 19th centuries, liberty was most definitely thought to be a natural and moral principle grounded in the nature of...
View ArticleOpening Room to Negotiate?
Everyone would like a world of perpetual peace. Well, not everyone, and that is precisely why it will require more than attention to just our economic but also our political natures. Ironically, one...
View ArticleIdeology or Psychology?
About halfway through Monday’s broadcast of the PBS News Hour, I was fascinated to see that one of the speakers presented as an expert on mass violence was none other than an intellectual historian,...
View ArticleSlavery Gave Us Double-Entry Bookkeeping?
Editor’s Note: This essay is part of a Law & Liberty symposium on the 1619 Project. How many types of capitalism are there? If one wants to play semantic games, I suppose there are as many as...
View ArticleThe America the New York Times Wants
From the very beginning of the country, there has been disagreement about the meaning of America, but not until fairly recently in our history have there been outright calls for actually changing the...
View ArticleEuropean Social Democracy Isn’t What You Think It Is
Werner Sombart, the great socialist interlocutor of the equally brilliant liberal sociologist Max Weber, once remarked that socialism would never work in America so long as the allure of abundance...
View ArticleHopelessness in the New History
In May, Law & Liberty ran a forum debate on the nature of modern socialist thought. Prominent among the criticisms raised are points applicable to current leftist ideology overall: its...
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