… the natural inequality of ability and of interest among men must make elites inevitable, the only sensible course is to abandon the chimera of equality and accept the universal necessity of leaders and followers.
Dr. Murray N. Rothbard, Economic Controversies, p. 631
Danny Duchamp creates essays and videos on philosophy, economics and politics from a consequentialist libertarian perspective.
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https://youtu.be/sjjDnmmtfFU Also in 1997, an open letter signed by former President Eisenhower’s granddaughter Susan, and 50 important foreign policy establishment leaders, warned in part, “The current U.S.-led effort to expand NATO ... is a policy error of historic...
https://youtu.be/TkJc66nL19c At the time, Henry Lewis Stimson was the U.S. Secretary of War, and in the 1946 “Investigation of the Pearl Harbor Attack” Stimson’s diary is brought into evidence. On page 177, the report cites a diary entry from November 25, 1941, almost...
https://youtu.be/vdFBoGZycRI The second week of August the British Ambassador appeared at the treasury Department to ask that three billion dollars be converted into gold. Whether we honored or denied this request the consequences of our action would be fraught with...
