CULTURE

Why Most Civilizations Fail, Part 3: The Choice Between Stasis and Infinity

What separates societies that generate knowledge from those that suppress it, and what does this mean for our future?

Celebrating Work: A Crucially Important Value

Celebrating Work: A Crucially Important Value

Work is a crucially important value. When productive, work gives us not only the material means of survival and enjoyment of life, but it is also the main source of self-esteem and provides a central purpose that makes the rest of our values achievable by helping prioritize them.

Fear of Aging

Fear of Aging

Q: I'm terribly afraid of aging. I'm only in my forties, but I think about it a lot. Is there anything you can do to help? A: You're aging -- we're all aging -- from the minute we're born. Ruminating about something over which you have no control only serves to raise...

A Superior Vision

A Superior Vision

The immorality associated with violation of the principle of self-ownership lies at the root of problems that could lead to our doom as a great nation.

James Madison: Father of the Constitution

James Madison: Father of the Constitution

Madison, who would become known as the “Father of the Constitution,” argued that in a pure democracy, “there is nothing to check the inducement to sacrifice the weaker party or an obnoxious individual.”

American Progressives are the Intellectual Grand Children of German Imperial Chancellor Bismarck

American Progressives are the Intellectual Grand Children of German Imperial Chancellor Bismarck

American “progressives” portray themselves as “forward-looking,” advocates of a higher and better freedom than the traditional American conception of liberty as freedom from government coercion and control. In fact, they are the intellectual great-grandchildren of the “reactionary” nineteenth century Imperial German “Iron Chancellor,” Otto von Bismarck.

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