“Do not give in to evil but proceed ever more boldly against it.” So Aeneas is admonished as he enters Dis with the Golden Bough. Ludwig Von Mises adopted this phrase as his motto. It frames the conversational spirit of the post: a warning of the perilous danger of Leviathan; its seductive assurances that itContinue reading “Social Conservatism and Classical Liberalism”
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Witches, Populism, Aikido
In the 19th century, anthropology’s great achievement was humility. Cultural relativism and structure-functionalism arose as correctives to imperial arrogance; a way to see “the native” not as savage, but as human within a coherent order. Yet in the 21st century, those same theories can feel dangerous. When all practices are deemed culturally valid, cruelty masqueradesContinue reading “Witches, Populism, Aikido”
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