Which is why libertarianism (what Hayek would have called liberalism, meaningclassical liberalism) is the proper philosophy of government. Assuming, of course, one values individual rights and civil society. P.S. I alsovisited the Solidarity Museum in Polanda few years ago. Maybe I could put to...
But if regimes like The Soviet Union or Saddam's Iraq or modern North Korea are not evil, then "evil" has no meaning as a word. Since I deny the existence of hell and satan, I suppose I have no ultimate reference point for what is wrong. I think national socialism is as close as...
fin-de-siècle: French for end of the century, a term which typically encompasses both the meaning of the similar English idiom turn of the century and also makes reference to the closing of one era and onset of another. The term is typically used to refer to the end of the 19th centur...
Lagny or Lagny-sur-Marne or, as Léon Bloy later put it, “Cochons-sur-Marne” (“cochons” meaning “pigs” in French). Bloy goes into day-after-day detail about the struggles he lived through there, in his published journal Four Years of Captivity in Cochons-sur-Marne (Quatre ans ...
The standards left the meaning of “other illicit intention” and “terrorism” to people’s imaginations. In August 2008, the U.S. departments of Justice and Homeland Security, along with the Major City Chiefs Association, issued a report recommending the expansion of the LAPD suspicious ...
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falling demand for experimental DNA altering vaccines that will not stop us getting COVID-19 or spreading it. Yo writes: So I heard on the “News” this morning that 28% of the Population is “fully vaccinated”, and now it’s in Decline…Meaning they’ve Tapped out …Continue reading ...
in all the ignorance and malice of these demonstrators, hopes to blow up Congress, if he even knows the meaning of his mask, which is unlikely. The mask, and its anarchist violence, were popularized in a ridiculous 2005 move,V for Vendetta, by the Wachowskis (brothers, then brother and ...
Ingenious and arresting visuals keep arriving at the same pace as the unexpected jolts of baleful political meaning. Like John Ford and Alfred Hitchcock, Pabst kept a rigorous plan for what he would do on set and shot as little film as necessary to prevent studio interference as much as ...
Nevertheless, this brief story of its sojourn in England provides a useful framing device for the present essay as it highlights many of the elements which will be told here – art as propaganda and creativity as a political act, debate and disagreement on the merits and meaning of contempo-...