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The Armchair

One of the clear benefits of our formerly prestigious institutions crumbling due to the tyranny of subterranean standards is that the credentials and imprimaturs they dole out carry little to no weight. Ponder for a moment: Thanks to affirmative action injustices, does anyone walking around with a “B.A.” or “B.S.” (initials more appropriate than ever)…
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My Fourth of July with Per Bylund

Long gone are the previous American Independence days when I naively participated in all of the practices that bespoke of true American patriotism. Sure, barbeques are still good. Fireworks, ok. Seeing Old Glory everywhere–fine. Parades are still horrible. But, all of the attendant feelings I was supposed to experience and honestly wanted to believe, have…
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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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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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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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A Putin’s Progress

It was bound to happen. Once Russian forces invaded Ukraine, figures from both the right and the left fell into their binary, vacuous thought pits. They proceeded to direct Twitter fits at libertarians and anarchists like dear little ol’ me. My response is one to ponder:     So, when both your midwit conservative neighbor…
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And Now, Covidian: Nazi Comps Are Not Lazy Anymore

Almost without exception, Nazi analogies are lazy and generally inaccurate. But leave it to the Covid totalitarian-hysterics of our time to make them relevant again. It’s not just the marking with masks and the segregation of children in school. Here’s the New Zealand prime minister saying your life as you know it has basically ended…
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The Compromise of 2021

Evoking decades past in which compromise saved the republic (1820, 1832, 1850), let’s go ahead with hastening the inevitable and propose that Texans get what Texans want, and Texas becomes an independent state once again. The glory days of 1836-1845. Impractical? Never going to happen? Think again. Listen to two recent podcasts from the Tom…
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A President for All Neurotics, Karens, and Big Pharma Execs

Totalitarianism, modern history has shown, usually comes in the form of charismatic leaders whose speeches were, at the very least, consistent and entertaining. I mean, no Nazi left the Nuremburg rallies in 1934 saying, “Well, that was uninspiring!” or “Meh.” No actual fascist departed from a Mussolini speech and turned to their fellow authoritarian and…
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