The sleep of reason brings forth monsters
Any scholarship that proceeds from radically skeptical assumptions about objective truth by definition does not and cannot find objective truth. Instead it promotes prejudices and opinions and calls...
View ArticleA statement of corporate philosophy I can get behind
These days, there is a lot of effort behind what is called the corporate social responsibility movement to inject what some of us might see as Leftist political ideas into the ways companies operate....
View ArticleDefending the Billionaires
Nobody gets to the vast levels of wealth of someone like Bezos without being a gangster. Nobody. Once again, someone is here to give voice to the voiceless: the poor, underrepresented billionaires who...
View ArticleA Dissent
Today is the 100th anniversary of the armistice that ended World War I, which killed something between 15 and 19 million people, an astonishing and colossal waste of human life and potential. Sometimes...
View ArticleOn Thanksgiving
Tomorrow is the U.S.’s Thanksgiving holiday. It is a fine time to reflect on the bounty that the productivity increases brought by capital accumulation and technological improvements have brought to...
View ArticleMoney without Kings
It appears that Kenya has some something surprisingly sane: it has decided to remove portraits of real people, especially politicians, from its currency. At one time, policy in the United States was...
View ArticleThe constant denial that humans possess agency
Following on from the posting below about the “ISIS bride” is this comment from Brendan O’Neill at Spiked: Indeed, the story of these three London girls who ran off in 2015 was always a very telling...
View ArticleSamizdata quote of the day
“A termite has about 100,000 neurons and we probably get through that number over a big weekend.” – John Searle, American philosopher.
View ArticleIt seems young adults are not as keen on socialism as some might fear
An interesting item on the Guido Fawkes blog: The polling reveals that UK citizens overwhelmingly agree that “competition allows for better prices for consumers”, “competition between companies allows...
View ArticleThe equal oppression of the laws
“… nor deny to any person within its jurisdiction the equal protection of the laws.” (14th amendment to the U.S. constitution) Americans, especially right-wing ones, object if laws that protect them...
View ArticleUBI is a political cancer, and will kill us if it is not extirpated
My topic today is Universal Basic Income, a.k.a. UBI, which I regard as nothing less than a cancer of the mind, and which I fear may soon become a cancer on society. The origin of this metastatic...
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“The veneration of St Greta is an extraordinary, yet unsurprising, phenomenon. Our comfortable lifestyles, and the decline of religion in the West, have created a spiritual void. But this new...
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“Did you know that your dog owns your house, or rather some portion of it? If this is not immediately obvious to you, you will find it helpful to consider some aspects of the ethics and economics of...
View ArticleSir Roger Scruton (1944-2020) RIP
“Falling to the bottom in my own country, I have been raised to the top elsewhere, and looking back over the sequence of events I can only be glad that I have lived long enough to see this happen....
View ArticleCould you live in this socialist country?
Is the challenge from YT Vlogger ‘bald and bankrupt‘, in this video, filmed recently in Cuba. ‘bald’ as he is referred to, appears to be a chap from Brighton (if you watch his oeuvre) who walks around...
View ArticleIs Political Correctness most fatal to those with co-morbidities?
My team and I knew the president’s comments could trigger a backlash against the idea of UV light as a treatment, which might hinder our ability to get the word out. We decided to create a YouTube...
View ArticleThe sleep of reason brings forth monsters – a continuing series
Glenn Reynolds’ Instapundit has put up a long set of videos of the riots, here. Be sure to share this widely. People need to know what has happened. This is not about rectifying an injustice. The vast...
View ArticleSamizdata quote of the day
“The only corner of the world that you can control is yourself.” – Richard Cooper, of the “Entrepreneurs and Cars” show he does (he’s one of the “manosphere” chaps out there), talking about the...
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“Rather than aiming for a better future, woke militants seek a cathartic present. Cleansing themselves and others of sin is their goal. Amidst vast inequalities of power and wealth, the woke generation...
View ArticleSamizdata quote of the day
True, they were hypocrites. Jefferson himself was clearly aware of the ghastly contradictions. Pity they did not apply their own wise philosophies even-handedly, but they didn’t. That is was why Samuel...
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