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At Commentary, Fred Siegel writes in praise of the anti-Mencken, Bernard DeVoto, who lambasted the writers of his era for their lack of faith in American exceptionalism. And like certain pundits today, DeVoto considered apostasy from our national religion a sign of incipient fascism: Referring to Ernest Hemingway and the poet Robinson Jeffers, DeVoto argued [...]
Malcolm McLaren, impresario-Svengali of the Sex Pistols (and more), died yesterday. Nicholas Currie, the artist otherwise known as Momus, has posted the transcript of an interview he conducted with McLaren in 2002. Interesting material on the military/mafia origins of rock ‘n’ roll: Momus: Britain was always, in a sense, reviving American pop culture, although it [...]
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The distributist elements in Red Toryism got me to thinking whether there are hidden distributist or even egalitarian assumptions behind anarcho-capitalism. A basic consideration in classical political philosophy is the relationship between wealth and power. (See my post below on Douglass Adair for some cogitations on the subject from James Madison’s neoclassical mind.) Power is [...]
Filed under: economics, Philosophy