Quick comment on the tweet’s rhetoric: Step 1: Government incentivizes orgy of debt. Step 2: Many semi-responsible people indulge. Step 3: Predictable economic disaster ensues. Step 4: Debtors ask government to wave its magic money wand to disappear their debts. Correction to Step 4: They *demand* the disappearance of the debt. Step 5: Throw in claim that […]
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Two-minute answers to key questions about philosophy, politics, art, and the meaning of life. Now: Does faith make one weak? Filmed in Buenos Aires, Argentina. The full series is published at the CEE Video Channel. Description: At some point in our lives, we each ask ourselves the big questions. How we respond has great impact
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Two-minute answers to key questions about philosophy, politics, art, and the meaning of life. Filmed in Buenos Aires, Argentina. The full series is published at the CEE Video Channel. Description: At some point in our lives, we each ask ourselves the big questions. How we respond has great impact on our lives. Some accept easy
How can activists so frequently say “There’s no real truth and values are subjective” in one breath but then act physically — and sometimes violently — to impose their agenda absolutely? An explanatory quotation from exactly one hundred years ago: “Everything I have said and done in these last years is relativism by intuition. If
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Imagine these responses to the graphic and ask: Are they cheap shots?Lefty Take 1: “Sad about the poor Swiss, Germans, and Swedes – exploited by all those rich bastard billionaires!”Lefty Take 2: “So happy that Moldova, Belarus, and Romania are safe from exploiting billionaire capitalists!”
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This unit of our Atlas University course on Socialism analyzes democratic socialism: In our generation, most socialists have shifted away from overtly dictatorial socialism. Among younger people is some level of awareness of socialism’s terrible history but they still think of it as an ideal to be striven for. What do they hope for and
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My paired conversations in the Encroaching Darkness series, “The Seeds of Collectivism” and “Encroaching Darkness.” Hosted by Michael O’Fallon and featuring James Lindsay and me in conversation. Description: When you listen to the moral language and rhetoric of our culture today, you less often hear appeals to “personal responsibility” and “rugged individualism” — and more
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Two-minute answers to key questions about philosophy, politics, art, and the meaning of life. Filmed in Buenos Aires, Argentina. The full series is published at the CEE Video Channel. Description: At some point in our lives, we each ask ourselves the big questions. How we respond has great impact on our lives. Some accept easy