“The original goal was INDIVIDUAL freedom”
These days, capitalism has a bad name. Is capitalism evil? Is it an idea whose time has come and gone? Surely we need big government these days? Artist and journalist Jon Rappaport examines the original purposes of the U.S. founding fathers and of the Constitution, and produces one of the most succinct appraisals of the [...]
Book Notes – Liar’s Poker
Cover via Amazon Michael Lewis, freshly graduated with a Master’s degree in economics from LSU, got a job working for investment bank Salomon Brothers in 1984 (how he got the job is a story to itself; as encouragement to read this witty book, I’ll just tell you it involves the late Queen Mother). Salomon Brothers [...]
Book Notes – After Liberalism
Image via Wikipedia After Liberalism: Mass Democracy in the Managerial State (New Forum Books) by Paul Edward Gottfried, Professor of Humanities at Elizabethstown College. An analysis of what happened to the meaning of “liberalism” in the United States in the 20th century, focusing on the post-WWII period. It examines the roots of “political correctness”, and [...]
Learning from history
Image via Wikipedia Does history repeat itself? Can we learn anything from ancient civilizations, especially the ones that declined and fell? Nah! Thanks to scribd, I’m reading Ayn Rand-contemporary, Isabel Paterson’s “The God of the Machine”, which begins with a brief history of the Phoenicians, the Greeks and the Romans, and asks, for instance, why [...]
