Recently I revisited the masterful 1970 BBC production, “Civilization: A Personal View by Lord Clark”, a sweeping, approximately 12 hour DVD tour of the historic places, structures, artifacts and legacy of the evolution of Western Civilization in Europe from the collapse of the Roman Empire to the 19th century, as guided and described by the […]
Archives for May 2012
At Last–A Sound Dollar Act
A couple of years ago, I wrote a brief review of a very good book, Econoclasts, by Brian Domitrovic, a professor of economics at Sam Houston State University. The book outlines the formulation, rationale, and history of the application of supply-side economic theory, with emphasis on the people who sparked the supply-side revolution beginning in […]
Disappointment with the Pope in Cuba
I am not a Catholic, but I am a huge fan of Pope Benedict XVI. I have read two of his books and studied closely his watershed address at Regensburg in 2006, which established a new foundation on which to debate the theological and philosophical conflict between Islam and Christianity. I have also applauded his […]
The House Divided
Two fundamentally and diametrically opposed interpretations of the origin of American rights: We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable rights, that among these are life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness, that to secure these rights, governments are instituted […]
China Watch Update
In a January issue, the lead article of The Economist was “The Rise of State Capitalism”, featuring China as its leading example, of course, with comparisons with the recent problems in the world’s free-market systems suggesting that “the era of free-market triumphalism has come to a juddering halt”. But in all objectivity, after careful analysis, […]