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It’s been already two weeks since I began my own fellowship at the very Mises Institute, and during this time, a lot of things have already happened, both in the local American scene, as well as in the rest of the world, my own country, Ecuador, included. ....
Has he expanded russian liberties or no. he s become the spokesman of a kind of counter enlightenment. he s pronounced the liberal democracy obsolete. and he has become the center of anti-democratic and a liberal movement around the world. which has been unfortunately quite successful. so the struggle has, as its result, a democratic country that is now hostage to vladimir putin s historical resentments. let us remember, ukraine is a sovereign nation. that is very important here. and i think it s very important to hear from ukrainian voices. ukrainian experts. ukrainian people on the street. and hear what they have to say. they feel like they are being held hostage. and they are. just to be clear, on my own view on this, i think understanding the russian perspective is important for ....
Its advantage. george h. w. bush, you know, wanted not only to reunite germany, but he also realize that there were countries in eastern europe, in the baltic states, that had historical reasons for wanting to be in nato. security reasons. russia, obviously, was in a position of weakness. and right now, putin seeks to reverse what he sees us the disastrous negotiations by gorbachev, and then boris jansen. yes, political reasons for wanting to do this to. what is the new real legacy of putin if after all these years in history and great success economically? no. has he expanded russian liberties or no. he s become the spokesman of a kind of counter enlightenment. he s pronounced the liberal democracy obsolete. and he has become the center of ....
by William Manson / April 14th, 2021 It was the intellectual historian Isaiah Berlin who coined the term “Counter-Enlightenment.” He was referring to a widespread ideological-reactionary movement in the early 19th century against the universalizing human rights doctrines which had originated in the 18th century Enlightenment and the French Revolution. Berlin viewed this as primarily a German reaction, powerfully mobilized by the resistance to Napoleon’s wars of “liberation.” Most prominently, pre-anthropological theorist Gottfried Herder had strongly insisted, not only on the multiplicity of viable cultural traditions, but also on a value-free “cultural relativism” (thereby condoning, by implication, feudalism, indentured servitude, female subjugation, and so forth). ....