#tyrant

Author: Maria Popova / Source: Brain Pickings “To create today is to create dangerously,” Albert Camus wrote in the late 1950s as he contemplated the role of the artist as a voice of resistance. “In our age,” W.H. Auden observed around the same time across the Atlantic, “the mere making of a work

Author: Michael Crider / Source: reviewgeek.com So your new phone can charge up wirelessly, and you’re reveling in freedom from the tyranny of plugs all over your home and office. But what about your car? You can get it there, too. First, check out the owner’s manual. If you purchased your car

Author: Frank Jacobs / Source: Big Think It’s 1864, and the Civil War is raging. But southern secession isn’t the only danger threatening the Union. The U.S. has plenty of other enemies, foreign and domestic. If they got their way, this is what the formerly united states would look like – not

Authored by Mike Krieger via Liberty Blitzkrieg blog, Liberty is meaningless where the right to utter one’s thoughts and opinions has ceased to exist. That, of all rights, is the dread of tyrants. It is the right which they first of all strike down. They know its power. Thrones, dominions,

Authored by Brandon Smith via Alt-Market.com,   Is it true that freedom is an overly idealized concept? Perhaps, but it is one of the few concepts worthy of idealization. It is so worthy, that it is worth dying for. Since the dawn of recorded history human beings have fought and sacrificed to