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Economic Freedom: The Cornerstone of Western Civilization

17th July 2024 Going Postal 2700 Comments

“There can be no socialism without a state, and as long as there is a state there is socialism. The state, then, is the very institution that puts socialism into action; and as socialism rests [more…]

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Economic Freedom: The Cornerstone of Western Civilization

10th July 2024 Going Postal 2761 Comments

Western civilization – with all its scientific and technological progress, artistic prowess, philosophical and sociopolitical evolution, moral values, ethical principles and rich culture – took millennia to reach its famed “Enlightenment” point. It has been [more…]

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Of Poetics and Politics

1st April 2024 Going Postal 4323 Comments

How do you like your Poetry? Richly allusive, with detectable rhythm, a certain musicality about it? Or do you prefer a stripped-down, unembellished terseness-to-the-point-of-inarticulacy, a Tacitean, telegraphic brevity? Whichever, preference is yours, would you consider [more…]

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The slow, stealthy but steady spread of absolutism

11th October 2023 Going Postal 3260 Comments

Over the last couple of years, we saw countless examples of free speech suppression and of the steep price paid by those who chose to exercise that right. Divergent ideas and thoughts contradicting the government [more…]

Authoritarianism

The slow, stealthy but steady spread of absolutism

4th October 2023 Going Postal 2733 Comments

The struggle and rivalry between the “West and the rest” might be grabbing news headlines due to the Ukraine war these days, but in truth, it is anything but newsworthy. This antagonism, this battle for geopolitical, [more…]

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Crisis Resolution through Methodological Individualism

20th April 2020 Patrick Barron 2826 Comments

From 2009 to 2012 I taught an introductory course in Austrian Economics at the University of Iowa. On the first day of class I would tell my students that Austrian economics would change the way [more…]

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Brexit: Individualism v Collectivism

5th December 2018 Jonathon Davies 3149 Comments

“For wicked men are found among my people; they lurk like fowlers lying in wait. They set a trap; they catch men. Like a cage full of birds, their houses are full of deceit; therefore they have become great and rich; they [more…]

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