“They who propose to influence by force the traffic of the world, forget that affairs of trade, like matters of conscience, change their very nature if touched by the hand of violence; for as faith, if forced, would no longer be religion, but hypocrisy, so commerce becomes robbery if coerced by warlike armaments.”
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Immigration control strikes at the heart of the rule of law. That fact is badly unappreciated, even by some libertarians. If for no other reason, people who cherish individual liberty ought to be appalled by what the Trump administration is up to. Trump did not invent...
I thought I had put this in Enough Already -- or something? But I want to put it here for safe keeping at least. As told to me by a former marine on Twitter: “To get one to commit the greatest atrocities, you do not need to convince evil men to do evil. You need to...
This is an older allegory thing that I wrote back in early 2022 The Mountain of Ambition Imagine if you will that upon the horizon sits an impressive mountain. It is the distant fixture that confronts you every day. So far away and yet, it stands as it...
