It may be true that lovers of liberty, originally steeped in society’s preferred form of social democracy, must travel along the spectrum of the state via small (“minimal”) before reaching the conclusion that the state must go. But logically, this is not the case. To cure cancer, it is not necessary to reduce the size of a tumor bit by bit. The cure is to remove it. Similarly, if a rock upsets the flow of a stream, the solution is not to change the size or shape of the rock, to make it more streamlined, but to simply remove it.

“Laws are like sausages, it’s better not to see them made.”—Otto von Bismarck

In every age of revolution and reaction, when power grows centralized and the advocates of liberty are scattered, there arise sanctuaries where free minds find refuge. For the classical liberals of Revolutionary, Napoleonic, and Restoration Europe, that haven was the Château de Coppet, a modest estate on the shores of Lake Geneva that became one of the most remarkable intellectual centers in modern history.

The extrajudicial killings continue without any declaration of war. Meanwhile, the administration admits few of these boats have the ability to even reach US waters. 

The “boom continues: “ U.S. factory activity shrank in October for an eighth straight month, driven by a pullback in production and tepid demand.”

It has not been proven that it is Ukraine who attacked the oil refineries in Hungary and Romania. But the circumstances force the question of whether it is a Ukrainian false flag.

NBC reports: “companies are seeing wealthier Americans spend more while lower-income Americans are paring back.”

Alex Pollock’s latest letter to the editor at the WSJ appeared on Saturday, November 1: