In a world of unprecedented material prosperity and technological advancement, the biggest intellectual problem is not "hyper-rationalism", but hyper-infantilism.
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Author: Jakub B. Wiśniewski
“You are what you value. I value: individual liberty, economic common sense, logical rigour, clarity of thought, intellectual integrity and quiet charity.”
Abettors of Organized Oppression
Never tolerate calling statist "intellectuals" "well-meaning". Whoever means subjecting others to institutionalized violence, aggression, and coercion by definition does not mean well.
Continue ReadingA Phenomenal, Yet Insufficiently Appreciated Book
Let us appreciate Rothbard's masterpiece as an economic milestone in its own right, not just as an extension and clarification of "Human Action," with the hope that it will eventually become one of the standard points of reference for seekers...
Continue ReadingThe Socio-Political Equivalent of a Catch-22
If anyone ever managed to create real socialism - that is, a system completely detached from external free markets, perfectly efficient at destroying internal black markets, and not dependent on financing by other, not-fully-socialist regimes - then such a system...
Continue ReadingFirst, Do Not Destroy Scarce Resources
If there is one lesson that everyone should learn from studying even the most elementary economics, and if there is one major intellectual gift that sound economists gave humanity, then it is precisely this vaccine against Orwellian superstition, according to...
Continue ReadingBroken Window vs. Entrepreneurial Discovery
Not being absolutely clear about the above distinction is tantamount to not being able to separate important truths from pernicious falsehoods, which is especially fatal in the face of life and death events, and which plays right into the hands...
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