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In his important study, The Heresy of Democracy (1955), Lord Percy of Newcastle declared of democracy that it is a “philosophy which is nothing less than a new religion” (p. 16). The justification for all things is not to be found in the triune God but in the people. Virtue means meeting people’s needs, and the democratic state, church, and God hav

R. J. Rushdoony • An Informed Faith

Jimmy Wales, Wikipedia's founder, has stated that the idea for establishing Wikipedia came to him after he read this paper by Hayek and his explanation of knowledge.

Saifedean Ammous • The Bitcoin Standard: The Decentralized Alternative to Central Banking

Capitalism

Prashanth Narayan and • 40 cards

For, if one is aware that these know-hows will naturally, yes, automatically, arrange themselves into creative and productive patterns in response to human necessity and demand— that is, in the absence of governmental or any other coercive master-minding—then one will possess an absolutely essential ingredient for freedom: a faith in free people. F... See more

I, Pencil

Labor & Capitalism

Maggie Mae • 13 cards

Fascism

MargaretC • 2 cards

Prices are information, trade is speech, and the capital stock is a literary corpus. Which is to say, Bitcoin is the internet, extended to the communication of value, furiously wrestling value back from the feudal client/server architecture of fractional reserve and central banking. The Bitcoin Protocol / Lightning Network Protocol (LNP/BP) is the