The Right of Rights September 09, 2022
A discussion of virtue in property needs to be rooted in the principle of rights and equality in order to grasp the founding ideals....
Portrait of the Scam Artist September 08, 2022
Better Call Saul tells the story of Jimmy McGill, a struggling public defender who will eventually transform into a criminal mastermind and amigo del cartel named Saul Goodman (this was his role on AMC’s previous hit, Breaking Bad). Jimmy has a pench...
The Work of Virtue September 08, 2022
A free republic depends on citizens who can take their prosperity into their own hands....
Virtue and Property September 07, 2022
Wealth, if managed well, can be a positive good, not just a necessary evil....
Tocqueville’s Worst Fears June 28, 2022
In the introduction to Democracy in America, Alexis de Tocqueville asserted that the history of the world, or at least of the West, exhibited a providential, inevitable movement towards equality. As the scholar Marvin Zetterbaum argued in his book To...
Primitive Communism May 02, 2022
Karl Marx died on 14 March 1883. At the funeral three days later, Friedrich Engels wasted little time on their 40-year friendship, focusing instead on Marx’s legacy. ‘Just as Darwin discovered the law of development of organic nature,’ Engels said, ‘...