Sublime

Bush, like Nixon, identified consumerism as the stealth weapon that would triumph over the enemy.

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

the end. The next day, two nationalists in New York, Oscar Collazo and Griselio Torresola, made their way down to Washington, D.C. They were seeking Harry Truman, who was living not at the White House (it was being renovated), but at the nearby Blair House. They wore suits, and they carried guns. Their idea was simple: shoot their way into Blair

In his magnum opus Human Action, Mises constructs a brilliant vision of how people can best live and work together. He begins by building on the answers to basic questions such as “How do we know things?” and “How do we know what’s true and what’s right?”