The only certainties in life are death and taxes. I am sick of taxes. Taxes are theft – a standard refrain from Libertarians – that I hold as a truism precisely because they are extracted under penalty of law. Thus taxation is a coercive act. The refrain of good socialist-minded folks is that the richContinue reading “Man vs State”
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Walter Russell Mead
My high school experience was probably better than most, but I was dissatisfied nevertheless. I am not sure how my parents learned about it, but when I was a sophomore they took me to Simon’s Rock to be interviewed for acceptance. I recall that during the interview I was asked about my relationship with myContinue reading “Walter Russell Mead”
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