Tag: Anarchists

I Almost Became an Anarchist

Books, Economics

I've come to view Rothbard as a great economist, a good historian, and an amateur but unique philosopher.

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Books, Featured

Kauffman’s is a real message. Partially Quixotic, partially crucial . . . and there’s considerable overlap between those.

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If You Meet the Buddha, Kill Him

Zen might help with your existential struggle.
How to Take a Stance without Taking a Stance

In this age of uncertainty, you need beliefs and practices but not dogmas and preaching. Develop a stance, but be aware that you're on sand, not a stump.
The Revolt Against Essence

Getting to know the most popular philosophy of the 20th century. There's a reason Zen, Kerouac, Salinger, and Forrest Gump were, and continue to be, so popular.
This Might Be the Best Book of the 21st Century

Kauffman’s is a real message. Partially Quixotic, partially crucial . . . and there’s considerable overlap between those.
Drunk and Driven

My pursuit of drunken perfection (satire).
The Full Agrarian Letter

How to be a good agrarian: Professor Michael Jordan's full final exam letter to his students
Did We Just See a Red Swan?

Reddit, GameStop, Stimulus, and Two Things to Do If You Want to Survive and Thrive in the Age of the Black Swan
Twenty 20th-Century Books to Make You a Smarter Catholic

Each book will give you knowledge and help you develop a Catholic worldview.

Hate the River-Rat!

Illiterate, suspicious, intensely clannish- blond, and usually ugly, river-rats make ideal bootleggers.
Southern Literary Figure Hated Confederate Statues

Will Percy was not a BLM advocate, much less an Antifa subversive. He was “the embodiment of Southern culture, ‘defender of traditions, poet, gracious host.’”
Carting Away Hobbits

Gardeners came by arrangement, and removed in wheel-barrows those that had inadvertently remained behind
The Real Transylvania

William Penn was so impressed by the religious freedom in Transylvania that he almost named his American colony “Transylvania.”
What the Frick, Amazon?

Amazon has released an excellent documentary about what James Burnham called "The Suicide of the West."
Oh Mighty TDE Seer

My 2009 notes about James Martin's first book.

"Prostitution is legal in Nevada but mandatory in D.C." Bill Kauffman
“I want nothing to do with politicians—they are not men; they cease to be men, in becoming politicians. Their hearts wither away, and die out of their bodies.” Nathaniel Hawthorne
"Conversation is the casualty in the empire of noise." Bill Kauffman
Three AM: the soul’s midnight. Ray Bradbury
“If you want to know what a man is really like, take notice of how he acts when he loses money.” Simone Weil
“There’s no money in poetry, but then there’s no poetry in money, either.” Robert Graves
“The holy man always conceals his holiness; that is the one invariable rule.” G. K. Chesterton
“All prayer begins by man becoming silent.” Romano Guardini