Topic: Art and Culture

Transferism, Not Socialism, Is the Drug Americans Are Hooked On

– December 24, 2021

“We have polluted our political discourse with two words that no longer have much meaning: socialism and capitalism. In the process, we don’t call the animating principle of modern American politics what it actually is: transferism.” ~ James R. Harrigan & Antony Davies

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The Covid Squid Lottery Wire

– December 22, 2021

“Apparently America’s political system is too flawed to develop and implement workable, rational policies, leaving Americans to guess what might come next in the Covid squid lottery wire.” ~ Robert E. Wright

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TikTok Math Girl

– December 21, 2021

“There’s a part of me that wonders how anybody can use an iPhone to record herself and then share the recording with the entire world and not appreciate how tremendously better life is because of the advance of math, science and technology.” ~ Clifford F. Thies

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The Unity of Knowledge

– December 17, 2021

“To avoid groupthink and, worse still, bellyfeel, humans need to foster more creative, independent thought, not hackneyed beliefs possible only within the confines of a pinhole view of the world.” ~ Robert E. Wright

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Bob Dole, a Remembrance

– December 10, 2021

“In accepting the Republican nomination, Dole teared up thinking of the time his father visited him at a veterans’ hospital in Detroit, while he was recovering from his wounds. But, the tear was held back. Always a warrior, there was no defeat in this man.” ~ Clifford F. Theis

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What You Can Learn On a Long Walk to American Girl

– November 29, 2021

“Shopping malls offer economic truths beyond their just being shopping locales. They’re in reality economic ecosystems that explain how economies work well outside their walls. A long walk to American Girl vivifies this truth with ease.” ~ John Tamny

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Economics and the Picture Show, Part Two

– November 28, 2021

“Casablanca is a political econo-drama trading in the existential currency of life, death, and love couched in the aesthetic aspirations of art.” ~ Robert Edward Gordon

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How Hayek Can Transform Our Ingratitude into Gratitude

– November 25, 2021

“Understanding Hayek transforms our thinking into a rich appreciation of how individuals cooperate and bring forth the miracles of the modern economy. With the opening of eyes long closed, our ingratitude becomes gratitude.” ~ Barry Brownstein

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The Fire and the Dream

– November 24, 2021

“The Fire Is Upon Us goes deeply into Buckley’s and Baldwin’s longstanding positions on civil rights and race, thus acquainting us better with the full dimensions of the issue—probably the most consequential one of the whole brimming decade.” ~ David B. Frisk

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Hugh Hefner and William F. Buckley Jr.: Two Very Different Legacies

– November 24, 2021

“Young people intent on changing the world can take solace—and find some instruction—in the stories of two men who were still in their twenties when they made their names in the mid-twentieth century.” ~ James R. Harrigan

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Time for a New University?

– November 19, 2021

“The foreseeable ranting and naysaying among journalists and scribblers isn’t an impediment to UATX. The chief challenge for UATX, in fact, will be recruiting students.” ~ Allen Mendenhall

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The Horrors Of A Noninflationary Thanksgiving

– November 18, 2021

“Thanksgiving is arriving against a backdrop of worry and complaints, as CPI inflation is up 6.2% on a year-over-year basis. Monetary policy alchemists are forcing Americans to reconsider long-held traditions this year.” ~ Peter C. Earle

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