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How is it that 100 years after The Bolshevik Revolution there are still people saying the idea of socialism wasn't so bad? British MEP Daniel Hannan exposes the ignorance of this line of thinking... in 100 seconds. How is it that 100 years after #BolshevikRevolution there are still people saying

Via GEFIRA, The ‘Free World’ has taken on where the Soviet scientists and psychiatrists left off. German and American scientists of renowned Universities in Bonn and Lübeck do research on treatment for politically undesirable behaviour like their Soviet colleagues from the infamous Serbsky

Author: Jag Bhalla / Source: Big Think 1. The best we can hope for is “life, liberty and the pursuit of” stoic happiness. And that means we all need “happiness bootcamp” (to learn how harmful equating “happiness” with what’s beyond your control is). 2. That’s one key lesson from How to Be a

Authored by David Gordon via The Mises Institute, One of the most influential theories in contemporary political philosophy is “luck egalitarianism.” The late G.A. Cohen stated the position in this way, in his Rescuing Justice and Equality (Harvard, 2008): People with greater-than-average

Authored by Nassim Nicholas Taleb via Medium.com, I will always remember my encounter with the writer and cultural icon Susan Sontag, largely because it was on the same day that I met the great Benoit Mandelbrot. I took place in 2001, two months after the terrorist event, in a radio station in New