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…
John Saudino 2011 Originally written in response to the following question: What does the story of Atlas Shrugged have to say about the relative powers of good and evil and the conditions under which one is victorious over the other?…
Scott Nelson and Matthew Edwards 17 April 2019 This piece originally appeared on 17 April 2019 on the Austrian Economics Center Blog (https://www.austriancenter.com/debt-cicero/) Debt is a strange beast. A few generations ago the great evil that macroeconomic policies were designed…
Scott Nelson Spring 2018 What follows was originally an email written in thanks to two Singaporeans who gave me a couple of books by their country’s founding father, Lee Kuan Yew. The books are The Singapore Story: Memoirs of Lee Kuan…
Scott Nelson 19 January 2019 This piece appeared in modified form on 1 August 2019 in The European Conservative. Jonah Goldberg’s latest book is mature, well researched, and has lost nothing of its author’s penchant for inserting witty observations about…
Scott Nelson 11 July 2018 Yesterday I walked into a church somewhere in Lecce. It wasn’t the first I had visited that day, let alone that trip, nor was it the last. At first it was ordinary in every way:…