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For the evangelical left, equality and fairness are universally shared goals. Rothbard’s response was a book titled Egalitarianism as a Revolt Against Nature. The idea that freedom and democracy are not only compatible but downright synonymous is taken for granted in contemporary American culture, but here Rothbard disagrees as well.

Michael Malice • The New Right: A Journey to the Fringe of American Politics

The challenge in the fourth institutional cycle is how to transform a federal government that is entangled with all aspects of society and no longer functions effectively.

George Friedman • The Storm Before the Calm: America's Discord, the Coming Crisis of the 2020s, and the Triumph Beyond

How to understand the conservative desire to actually abolish welfare, if it is not to punish the poor? The argument that it would increase self-reliance and thus ultimately reduce poverty is dismissed as meanness

Charles Krauthammer • Things That Matter: Three Decades of Passions, Pastimes and Politics

It is precisely those who have been conservative about the family who have been revolutionary about the state.

G. K. Chesterton • The G. K. Chesterton Collection [50 Books]

He argues that a low entropy, or predictable and stable, carrier is required for the emergence of knowledge -- whether it be a fiber optic cable and communication, or a social system governed by the rule of law and economic innovation. Such a social system is not spontaneous, but rather developed through sacrifice and a religious order.

George Gilder • George Gilder on knowledge, power, and the economy

For American taxpayers, the Savings and Loans debacle was a hugely expensive lesson in the perils of ill-considered deregulation.

Niall Ferguson • The Ascent of Money: A Financial History of the World: 10th Anniversary Edition

The institutional shift will weaken the credibility of the technocracy heading into the 2028 election.

George Friedman • The Storm Before the Calm: America's discord, the coming crisis of the 2020s, and the triumph beyond

The institutional shift will weaken the credibility of the technocracy heading into the 2028 election.

George Friedman • The Storm Before the Calm: America's Discord, the Coming Crisis of the 2020s, and the Triumph Beyond

After World War II, Harvard welcomed a generation that could never fit in to its crowd. Now Harvard is once again looking for the right sort of fellow, as in an F. Scott Fitzgerald novel.