What strikes me is that the capacity to choose to do things for their own sakes defines a free people. The highest arts of the mind, most freely pursued, as our whole tradition has recognized until lately, are paradoxically the most useful of all… (essay by Glenn Arbery)
— Read on www.theimaginativeconservative.org/2018/08/knowledge-for-own-sake-glenn-arbery.html
What strikes me is that the capacity to choose to do things for their own sakes defines a free people. The highest arts of the mind, most freely pursued, as our whole tradition has recognized until lately, are paradoxically the most useful of all… (essay by Glenn Arbery)
— Read on www.theimaginativeconservative.org/2018/08/knowledge-for-own-sake-glenn-arbery.html
When C.S. Lewis converted to Christianity in 1931, he admitted that he did so in large part because Christianity answered the pagan longings he had experienced in his love of mythology and of all things northern… (essay by Bradley Birzer)
— Read on www.theimaginativeconservative.org/2018/08/c-s-lewis-man-faith-warmed-over-pagan-bradley-birzer.html
In the market economy, a vote takes place with every purchase. By deciding to buy a specific product and not another one, the consumers elect those companies that manufacture this good to go on with their production.
— Read on mises.org/wire/what-are-capitalists-good
The mere fact that Al Sharpton isn’t homeless and squeegeeing commuters’ windshields outside the Lincoln Tunnel is proof that America is not a racist nation.
— Read on takimag.com/article/the-week-that-perished-2/
“Being deeply loved by someone gives you strength, while loving someone deeply gives you courage.” – Lao Tzu quotes from BrainyQuote.com
— Read on www.brainyquote.com/quotes/lao_tzu_101043
Steve Hanke, professor of economics at Johns Hopkins and head of Cato’s Troubled Currencies Projects, is an Austrian—but he’s an Austrian who looks at markets first and foremost.
— Read on mises.org/library/professor-steve-hanke-explains-hyperinflation
“Free Intelligent Conversation” is a movement for those interested in learning from everyone they encounter. Its methods can also be used in the classroom.
— Read on heterodoxacademy.org/free-intelligent-conversation/
We’ll have a better chance to get through the Great Reset with assets and sanity intact if we remember the good things waiting for us on the other side and take advantage of them as soon as possible.
— Read on www.mauldineconomics.com/frontlinethoughts/revolutionary-future-ahead
Something to be optimistic about
The UK’s Express reports this week the South African government has begun seizing farms in the country following a failure to negotiate sales with the owners.
— Read on mises.org/wire/south-africas-land-confiscation-socialism-another-name
Exactly
John Barleycorn 
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