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Is a Sequel to Denial in the Works?

Is a Sequel to Denial in the Works? Francisco Albanese In his lecture Re-learning and Revising History, Hans-Hermann Hoppe reconstructs his intellectual development by revisiting the historical and political interpretations he encountered during his upbringing in postwar Germany. The libertarian economist and philosopher presents this journey as an […]

Who’s Really Afraid of the DSA?

By Nicky Reid aka Comrade Hermit Exile in Happy Valley So, the communists are coming again or at least so screech the doom merchants over at the GOP. Fox News is ablaze with round-the-clock, wall-to-wall coverage of the Democratic Party’s fall beneath the unstoppable onslaught of the deadly […]

Eternal Justice as the Emulsion of Nondualism and Dualism: Schopenhauer’s Descriptive Appropriation of Incompatible Vedic Philosophies

By Jason Kiss Arthur Schopenhauer’s espousal of Vedic concepts in The World as Will and Representation emphasizes his deep dissatisfaction with philosophy in the West; he regarded his contemporaries not with solidarity but with open disdain.[1] As a result, he turned his attention toward India. As Steven Cross […]

Honor, Shame, and the Moral Economy of Nations

Aleksey Bashtavenko, Academic Composition Modern moral philosophy often begins with a deceptively simple question: What is the right thing to do? Aristotle answered that morality consists in cultivating the virtues necessary for human flourishing. John Stuart Mill argued that moral action is that which maximizes happiness. Immanuel Kant […]

The Pursuit of Happiness and the State: Contrasting the American and Russian Ways of Life

By Aleksey Bashtavenko, Academic Composition Few nations differ more profoundly in their understanding of the relationship between the individual and the state than the United States and Russia. Although both are vast continental powers with multicultural populations and rich intellectual traditions, they have historically developed contrasting answers to […]

Queers are Everywhere You Bomb

By Nicky Reid aka Comrade Hermit Exile in Happy Valley There is a narrative running through the western zeitgeist and slowly trickling out to its various victims in the Third World that ‘Queer’ or at least ‘LGBTQ’ is somehow synonymous with colonialism and imperialism; that queerness in and […]

Office Hours at the Border of Metaphor

By Aleksey Bastavenko Professor Davidor had drawn the map again. It was not a map in the conventional sense—no scale, no legend, no cities—but a moral topography: a small circle labeled DAVID and, looming beside it, a larger shape labeled GOLIATH. The coastline was suspiciously tidy. The arrows, […]