Forbidden Thinkers and Their Forbidden Works

This is a good overview of right-libertarian-oriented thinkers.  As everyone probably knows, I don’t endorse the right-libertarian or an-cap philosophies exclusively, but I consider them to be part of the wider anti-authoritarian paradigm. Tom Woods In one of my favorite interviews ever, I run through a lightning round […]

American Gentry

By Patrick Wyman, The Atlantic The jet-setting cosmopolitans of popular imagination exist, but they are far outnumbered by a less exalted and less discussed elite group, one that sits at the pinnacle of America’s local hierarchies. About the author: Patrick Wyman is the host of the Tides of History podcast and the […]

Epitaph for the ‘War on Terror’

By Angelo M. Codevilla Independent Institute Avenging 9/11 and preventing its recurrence was justification for putting enormous effort and money into unrelated or even counterproductive activities the ruling class sold to us as antiterrorism. Twenty years after the U.S. government declared war on terrorism, it consummated its own defeat in […]

Codevilla, Courage, and COVID

By K. Lloyd Billingsley Independent Institute Angelo M. Codevilla, a man of “remarkable intellect and insights,” passed away this month after a long and productive career. In his response to the pandemic, Codevilla might have saved the best for last. Born in Voghera, Italy, in 1943, Codevilla earned degrees at […]