How to Form Your Personal Ideology
The Thinker in The Gates of Hell at the Musée Rodin Wikimedia Commons/Jean-Pierre Dalbéra, Paris, France The most sacred words any human being can utter are “I believe …”, The more … Read More
Tag: Ideology
Descriptions of world-views, systems of ideas and their interactions with other ideologies,
Should Christians Be Stigmatized?
A symbol of hope or a symbol of ignorance and prejudice? FreeImages.com/abcdz2000 Christians have a great deal to fear in this world. In the Middle East, they have been marked … Read More
The Legacy of 9/11/2001
The North Face of Two World Trade Center (south tower) immediately after being struck by United Airlines Flight 175. Wikimedia Commons/Robert on Flickr It has been fifteen years to the … Read More
The Dirigiste Mind
Particularly notable dirigistes from the past. From top-left clockwise: King Louis XIV of France, Karl Marx, Adolf Hitler, Benito Mussolini Image Credits from top-left clockwise: Wikimedia Commons/Louvre Museum, Wikimedia Commons/John Jabez … Read More
Russia’s Weaknesses
Constant Russian per capita GDP in 2010 US dollars (Blue curve) and its percent change from a year earlier (red curve). Image Credit: St. Louis Federal Reserve District Bank/FRED Data … Read More
Russia: A Classic Fascist Power
The Moscow Kremlin, the working residence of the President of Russia. Wikimedia Commons/Минеева Ю. (Julmin) (retouched by Surendil) Will Adolph Hitler and Benito Mussolini have the last laugh on history? There seems … Read More
The United States: An Exceptional Country?
The draft Declaration of Independence being presented to the Second Continental Congress by the five man drafting committee on June 28, 1776. The five men standing before the Chair are … Read More
Conversations
It’s good to talk! Photo Credit: FreeImages.com/Jon Wisbey One of the most important duties we have for our country and to … Read More
The Keynesian Emperors Have No New Clothes!
The Emperor has no new clothes! Image Credit: Wikimedia Commons/Vilhelm Pedersen (1820-1859) Given all their failures in suggesting successful economic policies around the world, one would have thought … Read More
Progressives Are NOT Liberals
John Locke (29 August 1632 to 28 October 1704), the first to develop a liberal philosophy that included the right to private property and the necessity for government to have … Read More
The Role of Ideology in Politics
The School of Athens, a place for the development of ideologies Image Credit: Wikimedia Commons/Raphael (1505) Many of the people with whom I have talked over my lifetime, if indeed not most, hated the … Read More
The Anguish of a Conservative Voter
OMIGOD! Donald Trump is going to be the Republican nominee!! (c) Can Stock Photo Now that Donald Trump is the presumptive nominee of the Republican Party, what is a principled … Read More
Par-teey! One Year of A Divided World!
Happy Birthday, A Divided World! Freeimages.com Today is the one year anniversary of A Divided World! In the past year I have truly enjoyed writing the … Read More
Crony Capitalism
World Map of Transparency International’s perception of corruption index for 2015 Wikimedia Commons/Turnless If there is one area of agreement between believers in capitalist free-markets and American Leftists, it is that … Read More
The Anti-Freedom Bias of Progressives
Galileo’s trial for scientific heresy by the Roman Catholic Church Wikimedia Commons/Painting by Cristiano Banti (1857) (US-PD-Art) I am not the only one to notice the increasingly authoritarian tendencies of … Read More
Do the Rich Pay Their Fair-Share of Taxes?
Target the Rich! (c) Can Stock Photo The far-left in the United States — including President Barack Obama and the two Democratic Party candidates, Bernie … Read More
The Economic Nature of Fascism
The Gods of Fascism: Benito Mussolini and Adolf Hitler Photo Credits: Left: Wikimedia Commons/time.com Right: Wikimedia Commons/German Federal Archives Whenever fascism is discussed, more often than not the characteristic emphasized … Read More
Compromise Between the Right and the Left
Compromise: Are our arms long enough to reach across the chasm? Image Credit: CanStockPhoto/photocreo A commenter on the post Economic Questions: Is Everyone Fooling Themselves? was concerned about the ability … Read More
Economic System States, Feedback Loops, and Adam Smith’s Invisible Hand
Adam Smith, the builder of a majestic Gothic cathedral of economic thought. by John Kay (1742-1826)/Library of Congress (PD-1996) This is the second of two posts on the applicability of … Read More
Feedback Loops and Economic System States
Organization of a feedback loop Wikimedia Commons/Brews ohare – Own work My friend Chease has again proposed I consider a very interesting article concerning Adam Smith’s “Invisible Hand”. Last August … Read More
Meanings of the Word Socialism
Lamartine, before the Hotel de Ville, Paris rejects the red flag of revolution and socialism on Feb. 25, 1848. By Henri Félix Emmanuel Philippoteaux , Public Domain Late yesterday, while … Read More
The Virus that is ISIS
Coalition air strike on ISIS positions in Kobani, Northern Syria, October 2014 Photo Credit: Wikimedia Commons/Voice of America Schuyler Moore has just published a very interesting idea about ISIS in … Read More
What Do Young Americans Believe?
Sir Winston S. Churchill, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom, 1940 to 1945 and 1951 to 1955 Photo Credit: Wikimedia Commons/Library of Congress/United Nations Information Office “Socialism is the philosophy … Read More
How to Solve Problems in Chaotic Social Systems
The problem space: a system with chaotic boundaries Image Credit: Wikimedia Commons/Eequor In Central Planning for Chaotic Social Systems I discussed how social systems, particularly economic systems, are really chaotic … Read More
Central Planning for Chaotic Social Systems
Chaotic Patterns Image Credit: Flickr.com/OLD SKOOL Santa Rosa At the end of my last post concerning the problems of the … Read More
What to Do About Keynesian Secular Stagnation
“I’m here from the government, and I’m here to help!” Image Credit: FreeImages.com/Daniel Perry In the preceding post The Keynesian Excuse: Secular Stagnation, I described the Keynesian revival of the … Read More
The Keynesian Excuse: Secular Stagnation
Lawrence H Summers, leading Keynesian resurrecting Secular Stagnation Photo Credit: Wikimedia Commons/LHSummers The Keynesians must be panicking. In the United States, Europe, and Japan, nothing they have advised governments to … Read More
The Growing Backlash Against the Left
Tea Party Protest, Washington D.C. Photo Credit: Wikimedia Commons/Freedom Fan In my last post I commented on Peter Beinart’s confident prediction that America would follow the … Read More