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Count Me Among the Fans of Downton Abbey

The series Downton Abbey, it’s just too long and too slow. I never wanted to commit. A 2-hour movie? That I can do. And so I did. I’m super happy about it too. Fancy house. Stuffy people. Complicated human drama. Accents that if you listen carefully reveal a class structure. It’s often hilarious too. It’s…

Hayek: Social Justice Demands the Unequal Treatment of Individuals
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Hayek: Social Justice Demands the Unequal Treatment of Individuals

Social justice is one of those squishy terms that is not easy to define. One thing we know for certain: social justice is not the same thing as justice, an age-old idea that was the focus of such thinkers as Aristotle, Plato, Augustine of Hippo, Aquinas, and Hume. (After all, if social justice meant the…

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Five of Hayek’s Biggest Ideas: A Study Guide

Friedrich August von Hayek (1899-1992) is today glorified by freedom lovers all around the world. The Austrian in a double sense—both as an Austrian citizen as well as a representative of the Austrian School of Economics, is mentioned in the same breath with the most prominent classical liberal economists of all time: right next to…

Kipling’s Timeless Warning About Socialism and Natural Law
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Kipling’s Timeless Warning About Socialism and Natural Law

It is no secret to those of us within the liberty movement that Socialism is both immoral and unsustainable. But there is a growing movement in this country to abandon the eternal laws that govern the free market system in favor of economic ideas based on extortion and control that will never lead to a…