Oct 26 2009
After trying, very briefly, to keep up with it regularly for a (very) short period of time, I fell back on only reading TakiMag when links were sent to me by friends. Today I was directed to a bit by Dylan Hales by a short retort from Caleb Stegall on FPR. The issue seems to [...]
Oct 25 2009
Friedrich List believed deeply in German nationalism and saw the dominance of British liberalism and Smithian economics as the arch-nemesis of future German greatness. He visited America in the early nineteenth century and stayed in Pennsylvania for some time, becoming an avid reader of Hamilton whose economic thought on national development heavily influenced him List’s critique [...]
Oct 20 2009
It is competition, not competitors, which the [Clayton] Act protects. But we cannot fail to recognize Congress’ desire to promote competition through the protection of viable, small, locally owned businesses. Congress appreciated that occasional higher costs and prices might result from the maintenance of fragmented industries and markets. It resolved these competing considerations in favor [...]
Oct 19 2009
I was reading Deneen’s Subsidizing Localism over at FPR a few minutes ago and it reminded me of one of the problems I have with the current Republican Party: conservatives should distrust big business as much as they distrust big government. It occurred to me that this begs the question: is it possible to limit [...]
Oct 19 2009
For an excellent summation of the orthodox Christian explanation of Christology, I highly recommend this piece at philorthodox.
Oct 18 2009
Here’s a shocker: Public finance is a matter of morality. The most fundamental currency when we engage in international finance and inter-temporal trade is our word. With our money we make and trade in promises. The systems constituting America’s debt market are not trading in money per se, but legal contracts. Options are legal contracts [...]
Oct 14 2009
A combination of things has had me thinking about aesthetics and beauty of late. First was my summer obsession (which has only been sidelined until I finish the two 50-page papers I’ve to do before January) with the relationship between musical aesthetics and theology. Then, more recently, I had a late night discussion with Nathan [...]
Oct 07 2009
Somewhat in the mold of the traditional speech at my alma mater, read a great exposition of this question here.
Oct 04 2009
Samuel Taylor Coleridge’s day was an era of tumult and change: the end of the Napoleonic wars left a new conservative order on the continent, orchestrated by the skillful Austrian count Metternich, but it was a new order terrified into conservatism as Europe had been shoved off a sheer Alpine cliff by Revolution and Bonapartism, only in [...]
Oct 02 2009
Two noteworthy articles, by David Brooks and Steven Hayward respectively, on the state of conservative thinking and propaganda. Brooks suggests that talk-radio jocks now define the boundaries of conservative “thought,” and have reduced it to right-wing ideology (an almost unremarkable argument at this point), arguing that bad-content drives out the good. Â But Hayward points out [...]
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