What good does it do me, after all, if an ever-watchful authority keeps an eye out to ensure that my pleasures will be tranquil and races ahead of me to ward off all danger, sparing me the need even to think about such things, if that authority, even as it removes the smallest thorns from my path, is also absolute master of my liberty and my life; if it monopolizes vitality and existence to such a degree that when it languishes, everything must also sleep; and when it dies, everything must also perish?
— Alexis de Tocqueville, Democracy in America [1835-1840] |
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June 8, 2022
What If the U.S. Had Invaded Ukraine?
Let’s engage in a thought experiment. Suppose that Ukraine was headed by a pro-Russia regime. After repeated failed attempts at assassination by the CIA, the Pentagon finally decides to invade Ukraine for the purpose of bringing about regime change — i.e., ousting the pro-Russia regime from power and replacing it with a pro-U.S. regime. What … |
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And Then There Were Three
by Laurence M. Vance
The Additional Ukraine Supplemental Appropriations Act, 2022 (H.R.7691), which provides $40.1 billion for “appropriations for defense equipment, migration and refugee assistance, … |
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Human Irrationality and Free Markets
by Antony Sammeroff
If everyone was irrational all of the time, we would be in big trouble. You’d never know when someone was suddenly going to swerve … |
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