Land Of The Free?- Published in IM-1776, Jan 2021
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Land Of The Free?- Published in IM-1776, Jan 2021
Europe, as noted earlier, has in a short span of time gone from being the most predictable and stable region—one where history seemed to have truly ended (as suggested in an influential essay published in 1989 by the American political scientist Francis Fukuyama)—to something dramatically different. Democracy, prosperity, and peace all seemed firml
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John Locke, who held that individuals had a right to turn natural resources that belonged to no one into individual property for personal use, through labor. The Lockean idea justified all manner of accomplishments and violations in American history, including the colonial seizure of Native lands and the justification of resource extraction via the
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Did We Actually Start the Fire? - Reasons the world might be about to change.
Supposedly, its all been burning since the world's been turning... but I’m becoming more worried how people are increasingly talking and acting like they have nothing to lose (maybe we do have less to lose now)
Did we actually start the fire? With Billy Joel [returning to w
... See moreCivil liberties. Free speech. Property rights. Rule of law. Representative democracy. Free enterprise. Free trade. These are the ideas of Classical Liberalism. Since 1776 the fortunate among us have been living in places where those ideas were embraced.