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Why did Rome Fall?
Luttwak on the Western Empire
Mar 19
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July 2023
Where is the recession?
When the Fed started interest rate hikes, my friends in academic economics thought that a recession was a 50-50 proposition; meanwhile, friends in…
Jul 26, 2023
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Brazil
Reviewing Brazil: A Biography by Heloisa Murgel Starling and Lilia Moritz Schwarcz
Jul 11, 2023
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February 2022
What's Eric Zemmour's Problem
In an ordered list of the many things I am unqualified to recommend, political strategies for French presidential candidates must rank high. But, I have…
Feb 26, 2022
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What Should the West Want in Ukraine?
The part of this piece where I make predictions for the future was written last weekend. I think my forecast looks pretty good relative to the public…
Feb 19, 2022
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What was Fascism?
Note: Most people want to use the word “Fascism” purely as term of abuse for rightward critics of liberalism. If that’s your goal, go right ahead and…
Feb 6, 2022
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Why Do Anglo-Saxons like Single Payer?
There will be short posts today and tomorrow, as I finish up a work project. Peter Hall and David Soskice distinguish three different types of welfare…
Feb 2, 2022
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A Final Status of Isreal
This post is not a moral endorsement. It merely aims at description!! Advocates of a two state solution will often argue that Israel will be permanently…
Feb 1, 2022
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John Hunt
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January 2022
Are Freedom and Equality Separable?
The argument on behalf on your freedom to act disreputably often goes like this. Who is to say drug use is wrong? What makes you better than the people…
Jan 30, 2022
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Three Problems in Aesthetics
My first philosophy post. Let’s see how it goes. The first step in any discussion of aesthetics is to clear away the intellectual rubble of…
Jan 26, 2022
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John Hunt
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Giving Jeffersonians Their Due
And Why American "Leadership" will be Much Harder to Sustain
Jan 24, 2022
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A Great Definition of Conservatism
Lawrence Weschler may have stumbled upon one of the best ways to describe conservatism in one of his essay on Yugoslavia. He is describing the evolution…
Jan 20, 2022
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