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The Bulletin: October 29-November 4, 2025
The Bulletin: October 29-November 4, 2025 This past week’s articles of interest… CLICK HERE If you’re new to my writing, check out this overview. New Mexico Officials Report High Rate Of ‘Forever Chemicals’ In Residents Near Air Base | ZeroHedge Barack Obama Proposes a Scary Idea for Social Media Censorship Is Now A New Form […]
Humanity Is Escaping From The Abusive Relationship With The Police State
Humanity Is Escaping From The Abusive Relationship With The Police State Abusive relationships where the abuser is a transparently horrible monster don’t tend to last long, because it becomes obvious to the victim very quickly that they need to head for the door. The ones that last are the ones where the abuser is an […]
On Finding Our Authentic Selves: or, the True and the False in the Age of Rousseau
On Finding Our Authentic Selves: or, the True and the False in the Age of Rousseau Being Part 3 of: Why Liberals Should be Conservative: Climate Change, Excellence, and the Practice of Happiness It may be urged that every individual man carries, within himself, at least in his adaptation and destination, a purely ideal man. […]
Decades of laissez-faire in Europe or the destruction of the middle class
Decades of laissez-faire in Europe or the destruction of the middle class The EU elites pay homage to the laissez-faire of liberalism. They have been deregulating and “liberating” the market for 30 years. The Western governments also follow the philosophy and hardly intervene in the market. There is only one authority that can intervene effectively […]
On liberal authoritarianism
On liberal authoritarianism Bowing to the authority of experts saps the lifeblood of democracy. If liberal principles seem threatened, it is only because they have been so successful. Look more carefully at American, British or European Union politics, and it is hard to find any viable alternatives to liberalism even in its supposed moment of peril. Donald Trump spews […]
Why Liberals Should be Conservative: Climate Change, Excellence, and the Practice of Happiness, Part 2
Why Liberals Should be Conservative: Climate Change, Excellence, and the Practice of Happiness, Part 2 Ed. note: Part 1 of this series can be found on Resilience.org here. The Resurgent Aristotelians: Hopkins, Fleming, Francis, and Holmgren What then does a modern Aristotelianism look like? How might we reconcile his ideal of a singular, philosophically deduced definition […]
The Power Of Delusion
The Power Of Delusion Way back in the olden thymes, I was going back and forth with a liberal acquaintance about a topic related to his cult’s recent fixation on diversity. I no longer recall the details of the conversation, but at some point he said, “The reason we moved to Arlington was so our […]
Conservativism Now? Market Economies and the Liberal Anti-Culture
Conservativism Now? Market Economies and the Liberal Anti-Culture The persistent purpose of my writing over the past decade has been to reflect in a hopefully complex manner on the sort of culture necessary to “solve” the climate and ecological crisis and create a truly sustainable way of life. One of my main themes has been […]
Liberal Totalitarianism
Paco Freire/SOPA Images/LightRocket via Getty Images Liberal Totalitarianism It used to be an axiom of liberalism that freedom meant inalienable self-ownership. But liberal individualism seems to have been defeated by a totalitarianism that grew out of its own success at legitimizing the encroachment of branding and commodification into our personal space. LISBON – It used […]
Macquarie: “This Is The End Of The Liberal Order… But At Least No Wars Yet”
Macquarie: “This Is The End Of The Liberal Order… But At Least No Wars Yet” One week after Council on Foreign Relations president Richard Haass wrote an op-ed in which he waved farewell to the world he helped create, saying “Goodbye, Liberal World Order.” Then overnight, one of Wall Street’s most original, if underappreciated analysts, […]
This Was Mises’s Main Case for Peace
This Was Mises’s Main Case for Peace War only destroys. Peace, on the other hand, creates. War is absolutely devastating. There is no dancing around that fact. Not only is it responsible for the loss of countless human lives, it also leaves an immeasurable amount of physical and emotional destruction in its wake. The market […]
Neoliberalism Was Never about Free Markets
Neoliberalism Was Never about Free Markets From the beginning, it was about watering down classical liberalism. One of the most accusatory and negative words currently in use in various politically “progressive” circles is that of “neoliberalism.” To be called a “neoliberal” is to stand condemned of being against “the poor,” an apologist for the “the […]
Restoring a Responsible ‘Conservatism’
Restoring a Responsible ‘Conservatism’ As much as “liberal” has become a dirty word in U.S. politics, the word “conservative” has been ripped from all its honorable traditions and redefined as a dangerous form of radicalism, says ex-CIA official Graham E. Fuller. What is it about the U.S. that makes it virtually the only country in […]
To confront power, one must first name it: Neoliberalism and the sustainability crisis
To confront power, one must first name it: Neoliberalism and the sustainability crisis Recently, Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker ordered references to human-caused climate change be deleted from the state Deparment of Natural Resources website. Scientific findings concerning the natural world have become an embarrassment for the neoliberal world view. The answer in this case seems to be to […]
True Free Trade vs. ‘Free Trade Deals’: The Misappropriation of Freedom
TRUE FREE TRADE VS. ‘FREE TRADE DEALS’: THE MISAPPROPRIATION OF FREEDOM One of the most frustrating aspect of those trade negotiations that are sold as ‘Free Trade Deals’ is that they are not truly ‘Free Trade’ and, instead, they are just selective liberalisations that work to enrich particular interests, that increase the disparities between those […]
