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A Defense of the Peaceful Transfer of War-Making Power Sheldon Richman Posted on Prussian general and military theorist Carl von Clausevitz famously said that “war is a continuation of politics by other means.” I think we can reverse this: politics is war by other means. The ultimate aim of politics (in the narrow sense of the word; there’s a more elevated philosophical sense) is what Frederic Bastiat called “legal plunder.” Other thinkers have elaborated this idea. Franz Oppenheimer’s book The State comes to mind. Oppenheimer influenced Albert Jay Nock, Frank Chodorov, Murray R...

OddLane Explanation of The Holy Trinity, from Seeking Allah, Finding Jesus by Nabeel Quereshi: Projected in the front of the room were three large depictions of nitrate in bold black and white. We were studying resonance, the configuration of electrons in certain molecules. The basic concept of resonance is easy enough to understand, even without a background in chemistry. Essentially, the building block of every physical object is an atom, a positively charged nucleus orbited by tiny, negatively charged electrons. Atoms bond to one another by sharing their electrons, forming a molecule. Di...

Our New Book on How Immigration Affects Economic Institutions SHARE About 15 years ago, Benjamin Powell and I started working together on an academic paper about Somalia that the Journal of Economic Behavior and Organizationeventually published. We corresponded entirely through email on the project while our other co‐​author Ryan Ford worked with Powell in person. It wasn’t until years later that we even met in person. But little did either of us know that our collaboration together would eventually result in a co‐​authored book. Today is the release date for our book Thi...

this program is made possible by contributions to your pbs station from viewers like you. thank you. captioning sponsored by wpbt >> susie: good evening everyone. stocks plunged today as investors got the jitters over one issue, europe. >> susie: good evening everyone. stocks plunged today as investors got the jitters over one issue, europe. concerns about the financial health of eurozone nations intensified after standard & poor's issued negative outlooks on italy, and greece's prime minister warned problems aren't over. >> tom: susie, the major averages closed at their lowest level...

this program is made possible this program is made possible by contributions to your pbs station from viewers like you. thank you. captioning sponsored by wpbt >> susie: good evening everyone. stocks plunged today as investors got the jitters over one issue, europe. >> susie: good evening everyone. stocks plunged today as investors got the jitters over one issue, europe. concerns about the financial health of eurozone nations intensified after standard & poor's issued negative outlooks on italy, and greece's prime minister warned problems aren't over. >> tom: susie, the major average...