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Showing posts with label american decline. Show all posts
Showing posts with label american decline. Show all posts
Saturday, December 8, 2012

Ubi Libertas, Ibi Patria (Where Liberty Is, There Is My Country)

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Choosing to live in the United States because it once had a Constitution and was once the home of Jefferson makes as much sense as choosi...
Sunday, July 24, 2011

America No Longer Home of the Free

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I have heard from an anonymous source in one of the organizations that rates the degree of freedom in nations around the world that the rati...
Thursday, January 7, 2010

Henry Sidgwick on American Moral Depravity

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Henry Sidgwick was a 19th century utilitarian philosopher and classical liberal. John Rawls calls his Method of Ethics the first modern ac...
Saturday, June 20, 2009

Septimius Severus, Progressivism and the Banality of Evil

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Going through Rostovtzeff's Social and Economic History of the Roman Empire leads to a question: Is the pattern of the rise and fall o...
Friday, June 5, 2009

Bertrand de Jouvenal on the Bush-Obama Bailouts

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De Juvenal takes a quote from Rostovtzev's "Social and Economic History of the Roman Empire" (quoted on p. 190 of "On Pow...
Monday, November 24, 2008

James Crum on Our Spiritual Crisis

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I just received the following e-mail from James Crum: >Our problem is not economic, or political…It is spiritual, and I fear greatly that...
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Reverend Billy Graham on American Decline

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I just received this from J. Crum. One facet that Reverend Graham might have added: "We have printed paper money and called it wealth c...
Tuesday, November 4, 2008

Antiquity and American Decline

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Ancient Egypt is best remembered for its massive pyramids, but few people realize that the pyramids were built during the first, most ancien...
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Saturday, July 19, 2008

How Many Zeroes in a Billion?

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Clayton Mackey, my next door neighbor and Republican activist of West Shokan, New York, has forwarded the following to me.* How many zeros i...
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