What Really Matters: Ben Sasse

 

On My List

 

The Debt Threshold

 Niall Feguson on the dangers of the national debt.

Modern Afflictions

 Commentary magazine: Christine Rosen on suicidal empathy.

Coming Soon: Brad Pitt as Nelson Mandela

The cast for a play about Joan of Arc has been announced.

Time to Explore Why So Many Modern Politicians Are Getting Rich

The reforms of Diocletian and Constantine, by implementing a policy of systemic spoliation to the profit of the State, made all productive activity impossible. The reason is, not that there were no more large fortunes: on the contrary, their build-up was made easier. But the foundation of their build-up was now no longer creative energy, or the discovery and bringing into use new sources of wealth, or the improvement and development of husbandry, industry, and commerce. It was, on the contrary the cunning exploitation of a privileged position in the State, used to despoil people and State alike. The officials, great and small, got rich by way of fraud and corruption.

- Michael Ivanovich Rostovtzev, Social and Economic History of the Roman Empire (Oxford, 1926), p. 475.

Live Not By Lies

 

One of the Most Powerful Moments in Film History

 

Robert Duvall, Rest in Peace

 

Paper Beats Screen

Read this before the beep.

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