Category: Politics
The Wide Angle: Financial Unreality and The Cult of Pinochet
by Dave Troy | Mar 27, 2023 | Economy, The Wide AngleThe recent collapse of Silicon Valley Bank demonstrated in clear terms that financial reality is a shared hallucination. And financial reality, a useful social construct, goes a long way to shaping our physical reality. For the businesses threatened by a potential meltdown of the bank, a cashflow freeze meant the difference between real people getting […]
The Virtue of Reasonable Belief
by Louis Clark | Mar 13, 2023 | PoliticsMajority members on the House Oversight Committee are about to attempt another effort to cast the FBI as an evil force in our body politic. In a six-hour hearing in February, they hoped to link the FBI to a conspiracy involving both Twitter and then-presidential candidate Biden. The majority claimed, without evidence, that these alleged […]
Republicans Mishandle First Oversight Hearing
by Louis Clark | Mar 2, 2023 | PoliticsLawyers often warn younger associates never to ask questions of a witness on cross-examination unless they know what the answer will be. The House Oversight Committee recently demonstrated a related point best described through an analogy: if you want to establish that the moon is made of green cheese, don’t subpoena astronomers to testify at […]
The Wide Angle: Crash the Global Economy? It’s Harder than It Sounds.
by Dave Troy | Feb 27, 2023 | Economy, The Wide AngleMany of us are familiar with the phenomenon of “dorm room philosophy” and its derivative field, “dorm room economics.” Often, it is rooted in the clunky prose of Ayn Rand and the simple, common-sense decrees of Austrian economics, along with the limited life experience common to all young people — particularly young men. Rand’s “objectivism” […]
The Wide Angle: Combatting Putin’s War with a Forward Vision for the West
by Dave Troy | Jan 21, 2023 | Foreign Policy, The Wide AngleWar, beyond being just a struggle for territory, is a process. Long-running wars, in particular, have the potential to transform geopolitics, and this is playing out in Putin’s war in Ukraine. Sanctions initially intended to isolate Russia have created a bifurcated world where the G7 nations have shunned the slavic state, while other nations are […]
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