Libertarian News
So the Economy Now Depends on Stocks Which Depend on Front-Running the Fed–And This Is Fine?
Is an economy based on the wealth effect generated by front-running the front-runners really that stable? So the entire economy depends on the stock market going up as punters front-run the Fed–and this is not only fine, it’s optimal, the best arrangement the world has ever seen. On which ethereal plane is this considered sane, much […]
Turkish Delight
Robocop mayor may be dunzo: Mayor Eric Adams was just indicted in a federal corruption investigation, with charges most likely related to his campaign conspiring with the government of Turkey to receive illegal donations. (The indictment remains sealed, so it is not yet clear what he has been charged with, but theories are swirling.) “Sources […]
Thoughts on Tax Choice?
I know ultimately the Libertarian argument is “taxation is theft” but this tends to illicit a visceral rejecetion from people outside the party or its philosophy, and after that it’s often hard to get them to hear you out any further. Does anyone else think a more widely palatable compromise that involves a higher degree […]
Cicero’s Summum Bonum and the Greatest Commandment
Philosophy, ideally, brings our rational inquiry to a proper level of cultivation that allows us to accept the revelation in the Gospels. Praeparatio evangelica is a doctrine of the early Church, which maintains that God, prior to the fullness of revelation in His Son, already cultivated the soil, as it were, for the Incarnation, by developing a […]
Trump’s and Vance’s Attacks on Haitian Immigrants Reveal a Complete Lack of Decency
Sen. Joseph McCarthy rose to prominence in the 1950s as he leveled wild allegations about communist infiltration in the U.S. government. Communism was an international threat at the time—and some sympathizers had indeed gained positions of power—but his recklessness turned into a witch hunt that destroyed lives and ultimately undermined the cause he was touting. His […]
So the Economy Now Depends on Stocks Which Depend on Front-Running the Fed–And This Is Fine?
Is an economy based on the wealth effect generated by front-running the front-runners really that stable? So the entire economy depends on the stock market going up as punters front-run the Fed–and this is not only fine, it’s optimal, the best arrangement the world has ever seen. On which ethereal plane is this considered sane, much […]
Turkish Delight
Robocop mayor may be dunzo: Mayor Eric Adams was just indicted in a federal corruption investigation, with charges most likely related to his campaign conspiring with the government of Turkey to receive illegal donations. (The indictment remains sealed, so it is not yet clear what he has been charged with, but theories are swirling.) “Sources […]
Thoughts on Tax Choice?
I know ultimately the Libertarian argument is “taxation is theft” but this tends to illicit a visceral rejecetion from people outside the party or its philosophy, and after that it’s often hard to get them to hear you out any further. Does anyone else think a more widely palatable compromise that involves a higher degree […]
Cicero’s Summum Bonum and the Greatest Commandment
Philosophy, ideally, brings our rational inquiry to a proper level of cultivation that allows us to accept the revelation in the Gospels. Praeparatio evangelica is a doctrine of the early Church, which maintains that God, prior to the fullness of revelation in His Son, already cultivated the soil, as it were, for the Incarnation, by developing a […]
Trump’s and Vance’s Attacks on Haitian Immigrants Reveal a Complete Lack of Decency
Sen. Joseph McCarthy rose to prominence in the 1950s as he leveled wild allegations about communist infiltration in the U.S. government. Communism was an international threat at the time—and some sympathizers had indeed gained positions of power—but his recklessness turned into a witch hunt that destroyed lives and ultimately undermined the cause he was touting. His […]