How the Organization Man Went Rogue, Part I
The greatest threat to human liberty always was found in the ability of a few men to be able to aggregate the wealth of the nations and use them for their own purposes.
And from...
The Great Reset by Michael Rectenwald (2020)
The following is adapted from a talk delivered at Hillsdale College on November 7, 2021, during a Center for Constructive Alternatives conference on “The Great Reset.”
I heartily recommend you read it, and underline portions...
Fascism vs Communism, First Principles, Getting the Understanding Straight
Unlike Communism, which was the love child of Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels, Fascism had no real solid parentage, just a mishmash of European social thinking.
Americans are ordinary people, created on the principle that...
The Iffiness in Science that makes Everything a Coin Flip
I have several fits-and-starts in my stack of stuff, all centering around scientific debates not just about how human history is written, but how human achievement is defined, going back long before history could...
HomoBureaucraticus and Self-Destruction
(photo credit: Haitian passports dumped in the ground in Brazil as they prepared to make their (organized)way to Texas.
I'm going to reprint a few lines what I mentioned only recently, but several times over...
Where is Matt? After a Decade’s Slide into Darkness (Revised)
Matt Harding was born in 1976, a Gen-Xer (1965-1980). That Generation is just as apt to cling to the old ways and standards of their parents (Baby Boomers, 1942-1964) as they are to become utterly nouveau, knowing little, if anything about the shoulders they...