Every new ceasefire in Gaza is announced with the same weary optimism, as though this time the rockets will stay…
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The Daily Libertarian
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Political Moralism: The Framework of Control
Benjamin Franklin once wrote, “Only a virtuous people are capable of freedom. As nations become corrupt and vicious, they have…
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What Is an Economy, and What Is It For, Part 2
Last week we asked what an economy is and what it is for, and we looked at various economic forms,…
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What Is an Economy, and What Is It For, Part 1
I started my last essay with a definition, using a dictionary from 1985 to make sure the definition I was…
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Standards of Evil: Competing Moral Frameworks and the Fracturing of the West
I’ve written before about the differences between cultures and how distinct moral systems shape the societies that grow around them.…
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From Dawkins’ Meat Machines to Charlie Kirk’s Death: an Analysis of Modern Leftism
In the wake of the assassination of Charlie Kirk, I think I can say that we live in a fractured…
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The Liberty Revolution: Why the Industrial Revolution Is a Myth
Nineteenth-century British intellectual Lord Acton once said, “Liberty is not a means to a higher political end. It is itself…
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Weaponized Guilt and the Death of Agency
After Osama Bin Laden orchestrated 9/11 and brought down the Twin Towers, I began to ask how it was possible…
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The Moral Blueprints of Civilization
The kind of society we live in is shaped not just by chance, geography, or economics, but by the moral…
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Why Antisemitism Never Dies
I grew up in an atheist household where the very concept of ‘religion’ was frowned upon. ‘Religion is an opiate…
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