Politics
Thinking about Power
Thoughts on my discussion with author Steven Franssen about the nature of power.
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Politics
Stuck in the Mud
"The war-hawks' eyes were bigger than their stomachs, and still the neoconservatives are salivating"
Politics
Disentangling Interests
It's not hypocrisy, it's a double standard.
News
Media Shadows
"An international cabal crafts an in-group, out-group narrative using nothing more than symbols, enabling individuals to feel a kinship with others across continents."
Economics
A Response to the Mises Institute
Or, the Mises Institute's national loyalty problem
International Relations
The ties that bind Büntings’ World in a Clover
"Although Liberal and Realist theory may have you believe that trade policy and foreign policy are separate disciplines, history bears out instead that soft power infrastructure and the logistics therein can make or break hard power offensives."
Brooks Adams
The Law of Civilization and Decay by Brooks Adams
"Wherever civilization has reached the point at which energy expresses itself through money, faith must be subordinate to the representative of wealth"
Friedrich List
Outlines of American Political Economy by Friedrich List
"Government has not only the right, but it is its duty, to promote everything which may increase the wealth and power of the nation"
Jared Eliot
Essays on Animal Husbandry by Jared Eliot
"He that loveth silver shall not be satisfied with silver; nor he that loveth abundance with increase: this is also vanity."
Alexander del Mar
History of Monetary Systems by Alexander del Mar
“[M]onuments had come to be regarded only as so much bullion, and every provincial governor or barbarian king would be tempted to reduce them to metal, in order that, upon recoining them, his own upstart image might shine in the glass that had once reflected a Romulus, a Caesar”
"Incelcore vs. the World" Ruined an Entire Generation of Artists
"The same elements of the internet that help to cultivate and disseminate the ideas of dissident political movements seem to preclude those movements from a healthy and well-tended taste for the arts"
Robert Ellis Thompson
Social Science and National Economy by Robert Ellis Thompson
"It might be easily and fairly elaborated into an economical history of the earth, for that history is nothing but the story of man's conquest of nature's resistance and the progressive mastery of her manifold utilities"