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From Irving Babbitt’s Democracy and Leadership (1924):
A chief danger both to ourselves and others is that we shall continue to have a frontier psychology long after we have ceased to have a frontier. For a frontier psychology is expansive, and and expansiveness, I have tried to show, is, at least in its political manifestations, always [...]
Filed under: Books, Conservatism
I’ve been a student of Austrian economics for about eight years. But now, with the financial meltdown vindicating everything the Austrians have said about the Fed, fractional-reserve banking, and the business cycle, I find myself little motivated to write about such things. Obviously I’m not an economist, and excellent popularizing work on these topics is [...]
Filed under: Conservatism
March is shaping up to include an unusual number of talks for me. Last weekend I took part in ISI’s “God and Man at CPAC” panel. Video exists and should eventually be up at ISI’s website. Next Friday I’ll be commenting on the security and foreign policy panel at the Austrian Scholars Conference in Auburn, [...]
Filed under: events