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Why did Rome Fall?
Luttwak on the Western Empire
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John Hunt

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…
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Brazil
Reviewing Brazil: A Biography by Heloisa Murgel Starling and Lilia Moritz Schwarcz
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John Hunt

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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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John Hunt

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…
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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…
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Giving Jeffersonians Their Due
And Why American "Leadership" will be Much Harder to Sustain
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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…
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