History
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Milton Friedman: A Birthday Appreciation
Milton Friedman was the very model of a careful thinker, a first-rate scholar, and a clear communicator. He left an intellectual and institutional legacy that will be often imitated but likely never equaled. Our world is better because he was with us.
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Was Lincoln Really Into Marx?
Despite the Washington Post’s claims of a transatlantic friendship, there’s no evidence that Abraham Lincoln even knew – or cared – who Karl Marx was.
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Hazony’s Tradition-Based Society Is a Form of Social Engineering
Yoram Hazony’s call for a conservative traditionalism supported by government through enforced public schooling and political propagandizing in the public square for developing “honorable” conduct among the citizenry is another variation on the collectivist and statist theme.
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The Prosperity Around You Is the Fruit of the Enlightenment
Until they were transformed by ideas and culture, minerals and oil were just so much dirt and goo.
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Your Right to Absinthe
It’s my habit, and maybe it should be yours, to celebrate every bit of freedom we gain back from the armies of authoritarians who wield the power of the state to improve our lives. It took one hundred years, but they finally got their mitts off this one market.
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Conservative Nationalism Is Not About Liberty
The American nation is and should be a country of free individuals bound together by a belief in a society of liberty, not a collective mythology of tribes, races, or “classes” to which the individual is subservient and for which he may be sacrificed and subjugated.
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Are You Confused About National Conservatism?
It’s one of the great ironies of intellectual/political history how the Left and Right blend into a single oppositional force to the free society.
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The Economics of Music in the Middle Ages
The invention of musical notation in the 11th century made the composition and performance of multi-part music more viable. The construction of large performance venues in cathedrals introduced new possibilities of complex harmonies due to the reverberating soundscape. This further gave rise to music composition as a profession.
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Simon Newcomb and the Let-Alone Principle
Simon Newcomb’s conclusions, after a century and a half more of failed government interferences of almost every imaginable form and type, stand as even more reasonable than when he penned them: those in government should simply leave people alone.
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Milton Friedman: A Birthday Appreciation
Milton Friedman was the very model of a careful thinker, a first-rate scholar, and a clear communicator. He left an intellectual and institutional legacy that will be often imitated but likely never equaled. Our world is better because he was with us.
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Was Lincoln Really Into Marx?
Despite the Washington Post’s claims of a transatlantic friendship, there’s no evidence that Abraham Lincoln even knew – or cared – who Karl Marx was.
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Hazony’s Tradition-Based Society Is a Form of Social Engineering
Yoram Hazony’s call for a conservative traditionalism supported by government through enforced public schooling and political propagandizing in the public square for developing “honorable” conduct among the citizenry is another variation on the collectivist and statist theme.
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The Prosperity Around You Is the Fruit of the Enlightenment
Until they were transformed by ideas and culture, minerals and oil were just so much dirt and goo.
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Your Right to Absinthe
It’s my habit, and maybe it should be yours, to celebrate every bit of freedom we gain back from the armies of authoritarians who wield the power of the state to improve our lives. It took one hundred years, but they finally got their mitts off this one market.
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•
Conservative Nationalism Is Not About Liberty
The American nation is and should be a country of free individuals bound together by a belief in a society of liberty, not a collective mythology of tribes, races, or “classes” to which the individual is subservient and for which he may be sacrificed and subjugated.
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Are You Confused About National Conservatism?
It’s one of the great ironies of intellectual/political history how the Left and Right blend into a single oppositional force to the free society.
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•
The Economics of Music in the Middle Ages
The invention of musical notation in the 11th century made the composition and performance of multi-part music more viable. The construction of large performance venues in cathedrals introduced new possibilities of complex harmonies due to the reverberating soundscape. This further gave rise to music composition as a profession.
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•
Simon Newcomb and the Let-Alone Principle
Simon Newcomb’s conclusions, after a century and a half more of failed government interferences of almost every imaginable form and type, stand as even more reasonable than when he penned them: those in government should simply leave people alone.
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