Media and Culture

The market's love of reality is triumphant.

The two haute couture lines creating the most buzz are "Laissez-Faire," by Ludwig von Mises, and  "Après Moi le Déluge" by British export, John Keynes.

There is a serious danger in the refusal to acknowledge the inferential and moral legitimacy of instances of rational discrimination.

We live in times of hyper-nationalism, war, and all-intrusive statism that the Church is called to resist in favor of truth, beauty, and true salvation.

And if we must have government, let it remain small and insignificant, spending its time cutting ribbons and bickering over nonsense like the color of street signs. Let the rest of us enjoy the freedom to pursue our own happiness.

Unjust combatants who feared punishment at the end of the war might be more reluctant to surrender, preferring to continue to fight with a low probability of victory than to surrender with a high probability of being punished.

These are dark times, but the foundation has been laid for a classical-liberal renaissance. Policy after policy threatens us with short-run malaise, but I for one remain hopeful and optimistic.

"Like all things designed to suit the taste of the masses, advertising is repellent to people of delicate feeling."

"Economic trends are finally beyond the control of the political class."

Is there any reason a reader should place any more confidence in the work of an historian than in the work of an historical novelist? The answer is that everything depends on what historian we're talking about, what novelist we're talking about, and what kind of historical fiction we're talking about.