Fashionable Fascists, or the Dangers of Populism
Fascism was a 20th century authoritarian movement that swept across Europe, encompassing Spain, Italy, and most famously, Germany. The fascists were intensely nationalist, combining ideas of national greatness with general…
Dropping Traffic Rules and Signs Would Make Us Safer
We need more intelligence and less attempted engineering of preferred outcomes.
Beethoven’s Soundtrack to the Birth of Modernity
For Beethoven, the symphony becomes a microcosmic social order in all its diversity, layers of activity, and surprises.
How Will Banking and Credit Work in a Cryptocurrency Economy?
What is the future of banking, central banking and financial intermediation in a world in which cryptocurrency is dominant? Let’s speculate a bit, with the proviso that no one can…
City Governments Are Selling off Land Lot by Lot
Last fall, the Arizona Republic ran a huge expose of a strange problem in the city. The city owns 1,400 lots of property, some 2.3 square miles in total, for…
The Dos and Don’ts of Talking Liberty
Nearly everyone knows there is something wrong with the world as it is. The liberty-minded person believes that he or she knows a major part of what is wrong. There…
Atomic Blonde Is a Serious Anti-Communist Historical Drama
You really have to hand it to the marketing team of Atomic Blonde, the smash hit thriller starring the mighty and immensely talented Charlize Theron. I can just imagine the…
The West: Blood and Soil or Portable Idea?
Not everyone who goes around celebrating the achievements of The West and decrying its destruction is a true friend of freedom. We’ve known this since at least a century ago,…
Lecture #2, Understanding Causality
Principles of Human Action February 26th, 1995 Lecture Number Two As we begin lecture two you should keep this in mind about the ideological immune system. Again, and I can’t…
Lecture #7 & 8, Problem Solving
Human Action Principles Van Dyke Theater, Long Beach Lecture Number Seven and Eight Ladies and gentlemen, I cannot overemphasize the importance of Einstein’s advice on problem solving; “the formulation of…