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So how does one prevent war, if one rejects the globalist New World Order and the conservative peace-through-conquest? The answer is culture, but not in the way most people think. It was from New Right sweetheart Camille Paglia that I first learned about the importance of low culture, especially through her self-identification as a Warholian and he
... See moreMichael Malice • The New Right: A Journey to the Fringe of American Politics
The growth of politics is the opposite of the growth of liberty. When liberty grows we get increased individual enterprise and expansion of free markets. We create more goods, services, and benefits to society. The pie gets bigger. But politics is not about creating more goods, services, and benefits to society. Politics is about dividing them up.
... See moreP.J. O'Rourke • A Cry from the Far Middle: Dispatches from a Divided Land
An open world is a more prosperous world, but it is also a world in which both individuals and businesses must be better protected against critical risks. In the thalassocratic paradigm, instead of folding in on themselves, countries must continue to defend free trade but with its complement: a Great Safety Net 2.0 that is in sync with today’s econ
... See moreNicolas Colin • Hedge: A Greater Safety Net for the Entrepreneurial Age
Allowing Homo economicus to do as he wants, to give Ayn Rand– style freedom to let the market reign, will, by Becker’s measurements, increase welfare.
Raj Patel • The Value of Nothing: How to Reshape Market Society and Redefine Democracy
A Capitalism for the People: Recapturing the Lost Genius of American Prosperity
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Thus state intervention came to be discredited by a value proposition that was no longer aligned with individual aspirations. The laissez-faire approach was never attractive: it deprived the poor and even the middle class of access to affordable essential services. But the interventionist counter-offer ended up looking not that attractive, either:
... See moreNicolas Colin • Hedge: A Greater Safety Net for the Entrepreneurial Age
It will be a period in which the technocracy will continue to live well, while the rest of the country stagnates at best and more likely declines.
George Friedman • The Storm Before the Calm: America's Discord, the Coming Crisis of the 2020s, and the Triumph Beyond
Clinton’s Libya problem encapsulated the weak point of the technocracy. The argument for expertise as the basis for political authority depends on the experts’ success at managing both their small niche and society as a whole.
George Friedman • The Storm Before the Calm: America's Discord, the Coming Crisis of the 2020s, and the Triumph Beyond
The reality is that members of the American left have, whether they like it or not, become the new conservatives. At least in economic policy, they are usually the defenders of the status quo. In contrast, some of the so-called “conservatives” are the radicals seeking major change; at a recent public event, I heard two African American intellectual
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