by Peter Venetoklis | Aug 21, 2017 | Opinion, Politics
Nazis suck. So do neo-Nazis, Nazi wannabes, Nazi sympathizers, and those who share the “values” of racism, oppression, broad hatred, ethnic cleansing, and all the rest of that garbage. The Third Reich and the war it started killed tens of millions of...
by Peter Venetoklis | Aug 19, 2017 | Opinion, Politics
There are occasions, in the halls of public discourse, where high-concept exposition turns into farce, where an author’s grand ideas depict a lack of self-awareness so monumental that it defies belief. Consider a deeply self-important op-ed by K-Sue Park,...
by Peter Venetoklis | Aug 14, 2017 | Politics
Julie Borowski, a libertarian blogger, recently asked “Can the commies and Nazis just destroy each other?” This question, which if actualized would make for a much better world, suggests (at least to us nerdy types) a matter-antimatter annihilation. Yes,...
by Peter Venetoklis | Aug 14, 2017 | Culture, Opinion, Politics
The aftermath of a grotesque display by the worst sorts of racists (actual ones, mind you, not the sort of soft racism that identity-politics- and social-justice-warriors accuse even the best-intentioned and best-hearted people of), and Trump’s infuriatingly...
by Eugene Darden Nicholas | Aug 13, 2017 | Economics, Politics
Bellum Se Ipsum Alet – War Feeds Itself As has been a theme in these pages: when problems are solved politically, political power becomes entrenched and unadaptive; the problem then exists outside a rational feedback loop, and costs and benefit calculations are...
by Peter Venetoklis | Jul 31, 2017 | Economics, Politics
Creative Destruction. Two words that summarize the free market’s perpetual pressures, the constant improvements in productivity that make our lives wealthier, easier, and better. New ways of doing things replace old ones. Printing presses replaced scribes. Farm...
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