Sublime

Ever since Reagan, the Republican Party has been a coalition of business interests and downscale whites, many of them evangelical Christians. By 2010 it was like a figure in a hall of mirrors whose head and body have been severed but continue to move as if they’re still attached. The persistence of the coalition required an immense amount of self-d

Classical Liberalism has had a good run. Now it’s about to get run over by a bus full of stupid “post-capitalist” political trends—the new socialism, the new nationalism, the new trade war mercantilism, and the new social media platforms that drive this bus.

his great turbine of a mind,

There’s a quip from the historian Will Durant, that a nation is born stoic and dies epicurean.

But it was fun to see the total go down. Before long, no purchase was as exciting as buying a position of less debt.

on m’a fait lire Réflexions sur la Révolution de France, d’Edmund Burke. Burke s’opposait à tout ce en quoi je croyais, ou c’est du moins ce que j’ai pensé. Il soutenait que le changement révolutionnaire est brutal – on ne sait jamais quel type d’effets involontaires on va déclencher –, que le pouvoir de la raison ne permet pas de comprendre la com

In 2014 American character changed. A large and influential generation came of age in the shadow of accumulating failures by the ruling class—especially by business and foreign policy elites. This new generation had little faith in ideas that previous ones were raised on: All men are created equal. Work hard and you can be anything. Knowledge is po

This article of liberal faith—that conservatism is not just wrong but angry, mean and, well, bad—produces one paradox after another.