The Financial Times has good coverage of the increasing rift between American conservatism and free-market capitalism. President Donald Trump is both a result of that rift and a furtherance of it. Many of the deep thinkers behind conservative politicians have long favored the rift. Russell Kirk, Irving Kristol, Robert Bork — who represent differing versions […]
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The Pope continues to be rather silent about the disaster in Venezuela. Why? Here a supporter of Pope offers his best gloss of the Pope’s underwhelming response to socialist-dictatorship Venezuela. Earlier the Pope had a nice visit to socialist Bolivia. And before that a gentle visit to communist-dictatorship Cuba. But Pope Francis does goes out
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Thomas Hager (p. 240) describes well the attitude of a majority of students and professors within the universities, when Hitler and and his Culture Minister demanded that all Jews be removed from their professorships: “German university students were, in general … devoted to making Germany great again. They were strongly pro-Nazi. Among faculty members, there
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When he was only 23, Baruch Spinoza (1632-1677) was excommunicated from the Jewish community in Amsterdam. His precocious intellect has already formed and argued themes that were to be developed into his mature works, Theological-Political Treatise (published anonymously in 1670) and Ethics (1677). The excommunication document said, in part: “no one should communicate with him,
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Indeed: Jonathan Chait on Marxism today. Related: My video lecture on Marxism and its implications for education. My posts and publications on Marx and Marxism.
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The indefatiguable Matheus Pacini designed this graphic meme. Here’s his group’s Facebook page. More of my posts on Objectivism. [About the original spelling: Fortunately, Merriam-Webster has “straitjacket, noun \ˈstrāt-ˌja-kət\ variants: or less commonly straightjacket.”] “Objectivism is a discipline—not a straitjacket. It is a base camp for high mountain expeditions—not a hillock from which to look
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Stephen Hicks y María Marty en PanAm Post: Los cuatro errores del papa Francisco sobre el liberalismo. English and Portuguese versions forthcoming soon. Relacionado por María Marty: “Papa Francisco y la riqueza: ¿Integridad o hipocresía?”
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Here’s a seven-minute podcast of me talking with the WSJ‘s Charlie Turner about my article “What Entrepreneurs Can Teach Us All About Life.” From the article: “We often think of entrepreneurs as larger-than-life characters. They take big risks. They make their own rules. They innovate and experiment, questioning things everybody else takes for granted. “It
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