Teaching is something that can be provided for, changed, or stopped. It is good or bad, brilliant or stupid, plentiful or scarce…. Education is something else again, something intangible, unpredictable. Education comes from within; it s a man's own doing, or rather it happens to him -- sometimes because of the teaching he has had, sometimes in spite of it.
–Jacques Barzun
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March 17, 2022 Zelensky's Call for Nuclear War
In an emotional appeal that left some members of Congress with tears in their eyes, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky repeated his plea that U.S. officials impose a “no-fly zone” over his country. What he failed to mention during the course of his talk, is the virtual certainty that such an action would lead to nuclear war between the United States and Russia.
Paternalists Plan a New International Political Consensus by Richard M. Ebeling
The political paternalists and the social engineers are giddy with hope and anticipation. They are confident that their day has, once again, arrived. The ...
Ludwig von Mises's Free Market Agenda for a Postwar Ukraine by Richard M. Ebeling
Our television screens and social media sites are filled with the images of death and destruction as the Russian army continues its devastating advance ...
The Battle of Golden Spurs
by Scott McPherson
The political and social order of the Middle Ages was feudalism. Land ownership was the pinnacle of wealth and power, and from ...