Topic: History

How Government Prolonged the Lobotomy

– August 1, 2019

The use of the lobotomy in US medical history is a shocking and concerning event which continues to leave physicians and historians asking how such a thing could happen. Now we know.

History

Milton Friedman: A Birthday Appreciation

– July 31, 2019

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.

History

Was Lincoln Really Into Marx?

– July 30, 2019

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.

History

Hazony’s Tradition-Based Society Is a Form of Social Engineering

– July 29, 2019

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.

History

The Prosperity Around You Is the Fruit of the Enlightenment

– July 28, 2019

Until they were transformed by ideas and culture, minerals and oil were just so much dirt and goo.

Albert Maignan La muse verte Green Muse (1)

History

Your Right to Absinthe

– July 24, 2019

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.

History

Conservative Nationalism Is Not About Liberty

– July 23, 2019

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.

History

Are You Confused About National Conservatism?

– July 22, 2019

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.

History, Podcast

The Economics of Music in the Middle Ages

– July 21, 2019

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.

History

Simon Newcomb and the Let-Alone Principle

– July 18, 2019

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.

Books, History

Presenting: The Best of Ludwig von Mises

– July 16, 2019

Learning from Mises is a lifelong project.

History

Maybe You Are an Individualist Too

– July 6, 2019

Until we can reclaim the broad term of liberalism — and the assertion that society contains within itself the capacity of self-management — individualism will do just fine.