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Increasing passenger traffic, Brown reasoned, was the one sure way to wean the airlines from postal subsidies. But public confidence could be inspired only by big, financially secure carriers committed to safety, maintenance, and training, not by the fly-by-night operators abounding at the time. Brown changed the rules so that the airlines received

These experiences gave Wences insights into the nature of money that most people in the world learn only from textbooks.

Here was the New Right platform in concrete terms: a normative, regulatory state endorsing individual freedom only insofar as behavior remained within the strictures of traditionally accepted moral behavior. Rational Economic Man was entitled to pursue his whims in the market, but not in the bedroom.

By 2015 it was Donald Trump who had once again melded the combative Rothbardian style to Buchananite ideology. Trump did not simply defeat Jeb Bush; he humiliated him and his family on a personal level. Ditto Ted “Your father shot JFK” Cruz, and Marco “Google ‘gay rumors’” Rubio. Many in the thinking class assume Trump doesn’t know what he’s doing,

The problem with Jones, then, isn’t that he was simply perceived as a con man or a lunatic. The problem was that he does a phenomenal job discrediting the evangelical left as legitimate and moral, and this is something that the Cathedral cannot bear.

a laugh: “Look at Bitcoin Jesus.” It was a nickname that would stick.

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