Media and Culture

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"It turns out that there was nothing inevitable about cultural decline. All it takes is one person to make the change."

I think of Ayn’s happiness and expectation, I think of the pain and bitter disillusion that scarred the rest of her life — and something insi

It seems there is a terrible price to be paid for genius.

Posner is — to the best of my knowledge — a magnanimous person with a genuine concern for the lives of millions of Americans, but his book, if heeded, will only exacerbate current conditions.

To draw insights from all sources is to create the kind of diversity that makes for a vibrant and productive intellectual paradigm and an endlessly fascinating website erected in the defense of liberty.

There are no natural laws governing the behavior of complex systems.

"To all collectivists, including Dickens, the idea that more wealth could be created never manages to invade their imaginations."

The Austrian, broad approach to the study of social reality is something which legal theorists could very much benefit from.

"Milton's argument that the people need free expression of thought rests not upon their inherent virtue, but upon the very fact that none of them are virtuous enough to properly decide the right books for all."