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A Very Long Six Months

One of my favorite all-time movies is a French film starring the captivating Audrey Tautou, Une Si Longue Dimanche des Fiançailles or A Very Long Engagement. If you have not seen it, you’re a lesser person and should check it out. Epic. Reason for the mention here is simply that, per the old joke that…
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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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‘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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The Monopoly on Violence

As the old joke goes: “What is the difference between a minarchist and an anarchist?” A: About six months. The joke now needs to be amended to six months and/or this documentary. Thanks to everyone at Stateless Productions. Note: Duncan Lemp helped crowdfund this venture. God rest his soul.   DONATE NOW