Up From The Ashes

Classical liberals (nee conservatives) are always cast as rigid and unbending theocrats with nostalgia for the good ole days. Often chided for a lack of interest in what some define as “progress”, they are described in age, race and gender phraseology – as old white men – who just want to shut down everybody’s good…

Wednesday Philosophizing…

It is a fact that all socialist socio-economic systems – even those benevolent, munificent democratic socialist systems approved by Bernie Sanders – are doomed to eventually slide toward totalitarianism and tyranny. I tend to quote Freidrich Hayek a lot because he wrote the book on how such an endpoint in inevitable. In 1944, he published…