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‘Catholic Supremacists’ Are Creepy and Dumb

It was with considerable doubt that I read in Tom Woods’s The Church and the Market that he dedicated and targeted the work to traditional Catholics who had, from his point of view, erred in embracing redistributionist ideals that, if taken to their logical conclusion, amounted to outright socialism. I had not encountered such people.…
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Notes and Review of STALIN’S WAR

My notes follow (along with an interview from RUN YOUR MOUTH) from an epic book and epic read–on just how much the history establishment has gotten wrong, or more so, what it has purposefully done to communicate and indoctrinate in the service of modern regimes, a limited at best–apocryphal at worst–understanding of World War II.…
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Douche and Turd; Bees and Birds…

So sad that I missed the great ‘Douche and Turd’ South Park episode (season 8, episode 8), that is, until today when I saw it. If there is a better descriptor and subsequent repudiation of public choice vs. free market election, I do not know it. I wonder if the great James Buchanan ever saw…
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“IT’S NOT OUR FAULT! BLAME TIKTOK!”

This chapter of deflection theater has to be the most pathetic yet. Congress appears to be in bipartisan support of railing against TikTok, condemning it as the source of all ills. Ban it, the sops say. It is an arm of the Chinese Communist Party! The company spies on Americans. It manipulates the appetites of…
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Bypass the (Historical) Breakers–Better, Remove Them Altogether

Over the last few days, I’ve finally had the opportunity to dive into historian Sean McMeekin’s voluminous treatment of World War II, Stalin’s War: A New History of World War II. What a treat it has been. McMeekin, a professor at Bard College in upstate New York, is fluent in Turkic and Russian and even…
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Hoppe Strikes Back (at the Empire) Again

God only knows the extent to which I hate Star Wars, so I am not even sure why (outside of engaging in eutrapalia) I made that allusion in the title… Shrug. On Hans-Hermann Hoppe: the great Michael Rectenwald just shared this on FB as he was pouring over Hoppe’s essay, “Marxist and Austrian Class Analysis”:…
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‘Bread and Gold over Mice and Fleas’: Augustine and Aquinas as Proto-Austrians

One need look no further than the Mises Wire (and Hot H2O History, by proxy) to discover the profound–dare I say providential and as such, inevitable–confluence of the best of Catholic thought and the Austrian school of economics. In dual submissions, Connor Mortell highlights just how much St. Augustine and St. Thomas Aquinas discovered truths…
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More Dead in O-HI-O

Neil Young can go pound sand for his advocacy of forcefully injecting poison genetic serum into people around the globe. But, those of a certain vintage can recall that he once had a veritable rebel spirit when he wrote and performed ‘(Four Dead in) Ohio’ in response to the Kent State Massacre in 1970. Guaranteed:…
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Get MORE Guns on Chicago Streets

Maj Touré is a name most Chicagoans do not know. It is understandable ignorance to a degree, given that he is from Philadelphia. But, Maj Touré ought to be a name familiar to Chicagoans, and New Yorkers; Detroiters and whatever we might call people from Memphis, Cleveland, Miami and any other city in America. The…
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George Neumayr, Requiescat in Pace

I am shocked and saddened by news from Côte d’Ivoire that George Neumayr, senior editor at the American Spectator, author of The Political Pope, and faithful authentic Catholic man, has died. I was set to interview George on our podcast just this past Wednesday. When he did not show up for our intercontinental Zoom, I…
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