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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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The Audaciously Hypocritical Mr. Musk

In this age in which consistency of thought is an anomaly and standing by principle is an arcane relic, Elon Musk still has managed to stand out among the mob. After months if not years of endorsing Bitcoin as an alternative to the fiat currencies of the globe, Musk took to the cockpit of the…
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If Our Draconian, Totalitarian Measures Save Just One 89-Year Old With COPD and a Month to Live While We Sanction the Murder of Thousands–Well, It Is Worth It

It should not be a surprise that the best writing on the COVID insanity/hysteria comes from the always brilliant and erudite Jorg Guido Hulsmann. That he reports from France and that he understands our current madness within the nation that has produced such heroes of liberty (DeTocqueville, Bastiat) and on the other extreme, Marats, Dantons,…
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Down with the Twerkers, Frat Boys, Sorority Girls

No. Do not denounce them as selfish or stupid; naive or self-absorbed. When I say down with the twerkers on spring break, I mean get down with the twerkers in Florida, as in “get down” ala “Jungle Buggie” by Kool & The Gang. As it turns out, the defense, remedy, even cure for the respiratory…
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Who Was There for This Little Boy?

1. He was born with heroin in his system. 2. Weened off of drugs for the first few months of his life, he was placed in foster care with a relative. 3. An Illinois state court returned him to his demonic parents despite repeated reports of abuse and squalor inside the home. 4. Employees from…
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Rousseau, the French Revolutionaries, Ho Chi Minh… and You

Central to the tenets and legacy of Enlightenment thinker Jean-Jacques Rousseau, the notion of the general will drives the left to this day. It sounds democratic—but it is not. It is, the idea of the general will, an elaborate justification for a kind of intellectual aristocracy rising to power. Envision a group of Plato’s philosopher…
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