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In 1977, East Germany ransomed hundreds of its leading intellectuals and artists to West Germany, partly because it did not wish to endure public criticism by its own citizens during an International Rights Conference. In spite of the human sale, there was no general...
In his recent piece for The Free Press, Michael Ames accuses others—journalists, NGOs, international aid agencies—of engaging in rhetorical manipulation. Yet the irony is almost unbearable: his own article is a masterclass in precisely that. Ames purports to clarify,...
Carl Menger, the founder of the Austrian approach to economics, was not the first or last thinker to see similarities between a society and a living organism, suggesting the existence of undesigned, spontaneous order. The names Adam Ferguson and Adam Smith, before...
