Sublime

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.

Although he was largely an observer of the technical community that created Silicon Valley, his various ideas and crusades around the Whole Earth Catalog, which he created in the fall of 1968, foreshadow and resonate with the techno-utopian culture that the Valley spawned.

Most unforgivable was that a nation founded on Madisonian principles allowed secret police powers to accrue over forty years, until real and imagined heresies alike could be punished by methods less open to correction than the Salem witch trials. The hidden spectacle was the more grotesque because King and Levison both in fact were the rarest heroe

The Republicans say officially that the President is an impulsive, uninformed opportunist, lacking policy or stability, wasteful, reckless, unreliable in act and contract….Mr. Roosevelt seeks to supervene the constitutional processes of government, dominate Congress and the Supreme Court by illegal means and regiment the country to his shifting and

“I guess being a little bit dense, I didn’t realize what the routine really was until I read in the paper about a month later announcing that selection of the M14 rifle into production,” Stoner said. Then Stoner got a call from one of the men at Ordnance. “Our ploy worked pretty good, didn’t it?” Stoner recalled the man saying. Stoner and ArmaLite

Thomas Malthus’ An Essay on the Principle of Population

People who met him then described him as socially awkward, overly earnest, and cerebral.