Feudalism

Despite the media’s obsession on gender, race and sexual orientation, the real and determining divide in America and other advanced countries lies in the growing conflict between the ascendant upper class and the vast, and increasingly embattled, middle and w…

This post on Edgar Allan Poe in Dragonwyck is sponsored by Flatiron Books, publishers of His Hideous Heart, a collection of 13 of Edgar Allan Poe’s most unsettling tales reimagined. 13 young adult authors… 13 heart-stopping tales… This collection will “delig…

America’s Framers admired and largely modeled our government on ancient Rome, even though after five centuries Rome’s republic was replaced by an empire, which itself fell after another five centuries. For more than 230 years, Americans have debated whether …

https://www.lewrockwell.com/lrc-blog/an-austrian-view-on-externalities-monopoly-hint-these-are-not-market-failures/Here are several letters to me from W: Letter 1: From: WSent: Monday, March 27, 2017 6:46 PMTo: Walter BlockSubject: Re: permissions Hi Dr. B…

During Maerina's discussion about Coq au Vin recently, hotoynoodle described the dish as Peasant Food. That comment caught my attention. It's a phrase I've used more and more over the years to describe the food I like to cook. What I mean when I say it, is t…

From the time of its formation in 1839 until the repeal of the corn laws seven years later, the Anti-Corn-L…

What singular change in how we live has affected the sum totality of Indian life more than any other over the past century or more? The answer to this the end of the joint family system is almost banal, and unsurprisingly all too familiar to traditionalists a…

The dead albatross that hangs around our neck is our legacy of arrogance, racism.  And we must struggle to atone, to reconstruct, to create a different historical system.  So wrote the late sociologist and thinker Immanuel Wallerstein in unequivocal tones of …

In May, Matteo Salvini, then the interior minister and deputy prime minister in Italy’s first populist government, stood in front of a Milan cathedral with other European far-right politicians, holding a rosary, and called for a defense of Christian Europe ag…

Death might have a hard time sticking when it comes to adventurers, but that doesn’t mean you can’t make some friends along the way. Life and death are two halves of the same coin, and being a coin, it’s certain to be an object that adventurers will snatch u…