Bertrand Russell Summarizes the Left Hemisphere
Science is "power-knowledge"
Eric Scheske
The Aristocracy Is Eating the Peasants
By John Rubino at Substack
Doomers May Have One Point: Food Production
Every inch of me resists the doom-and-gloomers.
I think it's because I get the sense that this syllogism drives them: doomers are serious. Serious people should rule. Therefore, doomers should rule.
At the very least, doomers think they should tell other people what to do. Doomers,
Three Lesser-Known Figures in the Zen Tradition
All three emphasized the Tao side of Zen
Catholic Philosopher Elisabeth Anscombe was Wittgenstein’s Literary Executor
By Jennifer A. Frey at First Things
Burkean Libertarianism
I self-identify as a libertarian, which means I can play on libertarian sports teams even though I was born a conservative, but it bothers me that there's something eerily "religious" in many libertarians' fervor and uncompromising positions.
I'm firmly convinced it'
Three Errors Paul Ehrlich Keeps Making
By Vincent Geloso at the American Institute for Economic Research
The Importance of Free Speech
Free speech is the most important issue today, and I don't say that because I loathe Democrats (I don't much care for Republicans, either).
I say it because truth is fluid. It's not relative (put your genitals back in your pants, perverts), but it
Capitalism is a Bogeyman
The control of the production of wealth is the control of human life itself.”
Hilaire Belloc, The Servile State
Capitalism is a bogeyman.
There is a type of capitalism rightly condemned by my heroes Chesterton and Belloc, but it was first and foremost a type of capitalism born of privilege
Selections From John Wu's Translation of the Tao Teh Ching
Therefore the sage puts his own person last, and yet it is found in the foremost place; he treats his person as if it were foreign to him, and yet that person is preserved.
The highest excellence is like water. The excellence of water appears in its benefiting all things,