Last night I participated in something quite amazing by any standard, something with truly revolutionary potential. Three U.S. historians (Kevin Gutzman, Brion McClanahan, and I), each one an author in the Politically Incorrect Guide series of books, answered questions in a live Q&A for members… Read More
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‘Government Has Our Best Interests At Heart!’ Oh, Shut Up
This is simply unbelievable. For a long time, a very wealthy friend of mine who is an extremely good money manager had been sharing his IRA portfolio, and every buy or sell action he took, with anyone who asked to be added to his email… Read More
How the Poor Are Prospering by Ignoring the State
News Flash: Gingrich Not Conservative
Gene Healy at the Washington Examiner gives the grim details . But there’s more than what Gene digs up. Here’s what a Gingrich supporter is implicitly saying: (1) It’s all right that my candidate says he would have voted for TARP , what Reagan budget director David Stockman has called “the single greatest economic-policy abomination… Read More
Shock: Guilds Enriched Powerful, Harmed Society
I have interacted with quite a few opponents of the free market, both socialists and “traditionalists,” who have looked to the medieval guilds as a great example of how society can be organized without the alleged dog-eat-dog competition of the market. Under the guilds, competition… Read More
Propaganda, Meet Modern Research
Continuing his refutation of the Ferrara book on Catholicism and libertarianism, Tony Flood discusses ( here , here , and here ) the enclosure movement in Britain. Ferrara, as I feared, has embarrassed himself by simply adopting the fact-free distributist interpretation of enclosures: the wicked capitalists brought about… Read More
Want to Understand the World? Read These Books
Here’s my short list of books I would recommend to someone who is interested in the ideas on this site and wants to learn more. If you read and absorb these books you will never look at the world the same way again. If you’re… Read More