This nice piece by Theodore Dalrymple in City Journal reminds us that when Hayek warned of the coming democratic totalitarianism, he was dissenting from what nearly every educated Briton believed at the
If Google’s spiders are right, the American Prospect seems to be running an article in defense of goverment (what a radical idea!) that refers to the “culty Web sites dedicated to Friedrich Hayek and Ludwig von Mises...” Not being a subscriber, I can’t see the whole thing. Can someone paste the relevant contents as a comment
From Cardinal Joseph Ratzinger, Church, Ecumenism and Politics (New York: Crossroad, 1988) pp. 147-151. The state is not the whole of human existence and does not embrace the whole of human hope. Men and women and their hopes extend beyond the thing that is the state and beyond the sphere of political activity. This does not only apply to a state
Kyle Markley obtained press credentials as a blogger and ask the Treasury Secretary the unaskable question: why not make Social Security voluntary and otherwise let people opt out? Secretary Snow’s reaction: shock! shock! If you have followed Markley’s blog over the last year, you know that he wanted very badly to favor Bush’s SocSec plan but has,
Here is the audio of today’s brown-bag lecture presented by Mark R. Sunwall of University of Hyogo . The topic is “The Authoritarian Personality: Myth or Mistheorization”--somewhat unusual for this venue but enormously interesting. He was dealing with the fascinating area of the anthropology of political obedience: or, why do people go along with
“Where society is so organized as to reduce arbitrarily or even suppress the sphere in which freedom is legitimately exercised, the result is that the life of society becomes progressively disorganized and goes into decline.” So writes John Paul II in Centesimus Annus (1991) on socialism and social democracy. The Pope might have used the phrase of
Two sites to follow: BettingOdds and Tradesport . Current favorites: 1) Dionigi Cardinal Tettamanzi (Milan), 2) Francis Cardinal Arinze (Nigeria), 3) Oscar Cardinal Rodriguez Maradiaga (Honduras), etc. (pointer from MargRev
Landing on my desk this afternoon are the new issues of the Quarterly Journal of Austrian Economics (V 8.1), edited by Joseph Salerno, and the newly redesigned Journal of Libertarian Studies (V 19.1) under the editorship of Roderick T. Long. Even though both will be available online after this issue, there is something essential about the hardcopy
Cantillon’s Paradise links to what appears to be a wonderful paper by Bruce Benson , still in working paper format: “ The Spontaneous Evolution of Cyber Law: Norms, Property Rights, Contracting, Dispute Resolution and Enforcement Without the State .” Benson’s entire research program has been to draw from several traditions of thought, including
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