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Modern Poetic Justice Warrior Shelby Steele Has Exposed the Secret Weapon of the Progressive Left

June 17, 2020

What people on the right do, you can say in one word. They practice deference. We defer more and more to the moralism of the left. Will that get it? The left comes back with something else for us to prove our innocence. That's power in American life today.

Markets Signaled Early That COVID-19 Was A Negligible Factor. Politicians-Market Deniers- Refused To Listen.

June 16, 2020

Markets discerned that the virus wasn’t terribly lethal. If it had been, there’s no way that U.S. equity markets would have reached all-time highs in late February. Again, markets don’t wait for politicians to respond, nor do they wait for doctors and entities like the CDC.

The COVID-19 Lockdowns In The US Represent The Most Destructive And Unjustified Policy Error Since The Iraq War.

June 15, 2020

The COVID disaster and the Iraq War fit a familiar pattern. As the historian Paul Johnson has observed, most of the worst events of the 20th century were perpetrated by experts who used collective power to shape world events in a direction they believed was beneficial.

The Way Out Of The Current Crisis Lies In The Fundamental American Principle Of Individualism.

June 14, 2020

It is the individual that matters, not the collective that he or she belongs to. Only an individual can act to pursue his or her own happiness. A collective does not have feelings of happiness or anything else. Only individuals do.

How Entrepreneurs Build Beautiful Businesses.

June 13, 2020

“Aim to please” is the first principle of beautiful business. To attract people – customers - is simply a matter of understanding what will please them. This requires empathy – understanding people, their hopes and dreams and desires and preferences, and catering to them.

Francisco d’Anconia Combined the Virtues of Clark Gable and the Vices of Rhett Butler

June 12, 2020

Like Clark Gable did everything he could to preserve Carole Lombard's sense of life and spirit after her passing, Francisco d'Anconia did the same for Dagny during her lifetime. To save her from her only sin, the acceptance of unearned guilt, he sacrificed two very high values for a higher value - help her find out for herself, as he did, that she was paying white blackmail.

Economic Collapse Has Turned Many Europeans against the EU.

June 11, 2020

We either passively accept a centralized future, where the individual becomes irrelevant, valueless, and expendable, or we reclaim control, through the principles of subsidiarity, in which decisions are made on the lowest possible level and all voices are heard.

John Taylor Gatto Coached the Natural Individualism and Independence of His Students

June 10, 2020

Individualism and independence are human nature. Throughout history, management has failed to manage independent units. Do not assume what anyone says is truth, especially from upper levels of authority structure. Education should make you a unique individual, not a conformist.

In This Cultural Civil War, We Must Kneel To Ask Forgiveness For Sins We Did Not Commit.

June 9, 2020

The cultural civil war that has been simmering underneath the surface is now boiling. Consider the image of Senator Tim Kaine, the former Vice Presidential nominee of his party, kneeling on the ground like he’s a hostage, as if only the penitent white man will pass.

There Are Doctrines And Practices That Make It Rational For Some To Fear The Police “Brand”.

June 8, 2020

Practices such as civil asset forfeiture become attached to the police uniform in the minds of civilians. Many cops, I’m sure, would never steal a person’s life savings or confiscate their legally owned property just because the law allows them to do so—but the law does allow them to

Have We Reached A Revolutionary Situation? When The Intelligentsia Can’t Bring Itself To Condemn Violence, Yes.

June 7, 2020

Gary Saul Morson says he has no special insight regarding police actions and the death of George Floyd. But he does have a provocative thesis about America’s current political moment: “To me it’s astonishingly like late 19th-, early 20th-century Russia, when basically the entire educated class felt you simply had to be against the regime or some sort of revolutionary.”

What Are Your Permanent Assumptions? Can They Service The Accelerating Pace Of Change?

June 6, 2020

Some things are always changing and can’t be known. There can also be a handful of things you have unshakable faith in – your permanent assumptions. Realizing it’s not inconsistent to have no view about the future path of some things but unwavering views about the path of others is how you stay humble without giving up.

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