A while back, I stopped at a gas station in Luxembourg where owners of BMWs, Audis, and Mercedes go to fill up on slightly cheaper fuel. There was a street musician there with an accordion. He was playing …
It’s strange how rarely people consider that the most important of all virtues is the virtue of freedom—the capacity for freedom. As for the cardinal virtue, that is, the mind’s most important capacity, all manner of half-baked fantasies from around the world will do: …
History
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Ancient Rome and liberalism. It is quite remarkable that, when it comes to Ancient Rome, for the past two millennia, historians of ideas, historians, economists, and theologians have been interested almost exclusively in the question of why Ancient Rome fell. …
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Groucho Marx's sleeve-shaking surpasses his namesake Karl Marx's sleeve-shaking both in fun and, above all, in usefulness. Sometimes they are even very stoic, for example the saying: "Before I speak, I have something important to...
