By Matthew Edwards This piece originally appeared on 13 March 2019 on the Austrian Economics Center blog. The last years have seen generally strong economic growth in sub-Saharan Africa, an ‘Africa Rising’ narrative has emerged from parts of the media,…
The Revolutionary Significance of John Dewey for today By: John Saudino The Public & Its Problems is a remarkable book produced by a remarkable mind. Because of its uncommon depth and the high moral integrity of its author, the reader…
Scott Nelson 19 May 2019 I recently finished reading Hal Brands and Charles Edel’s The Lessons of Tragedy: Statecraft and World Order, in which they argue that the United States should rediscover a sense of the precariousness of the current,…
Scott B. Nelson 23 April 2019 Information about the conference and the speakers can be found here: http://budapestsummit.mcc.hu/en There is … no subject on which so much humbug is talked, written or broadcast as on immigration. This is understandable, because…
Scott Nelson 9 May 2019 I can’t express enough my disdain for the sorts of people who attend these high society events. I wonder if they can smell anything other than their own excrement with their heads shoved so far…
Scott Nelson 28 October 2014 The following was originally an email written to one of the earliest members of the Vienna Symposium, my dear friend Mohamed. He had asked me what I thought Machiavelli’s understanding of virtue was, and thereby…