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© The Strategic Culture Foundation Friedrich von Hayek, Adam Smith, Lion of Britain In Book 8 of The Republic, Plato's protagonist Socrates observes astutely that "the ruin of oligarchy is the ruin of democracy. The same disease magnified and intensified by liberty overmasters democracy- the truth being that the excessive increase of anything often causes a reaction in the opposite direction and this is the case not only in the seasons and in vegetable and animal life, but above all in forms of government". Plato continues saying: "the excess of liberty, whether in states or individual...

By Grace Beahm Alford gbeahm@postandcourier.com A map of a proposed revamp of Columbia’s Finlay Park Chris Trainor COLUMBIA — Roughly halfway into a financial year marred by the worst public health crisis in a century, taxes collected on restaurant sales in South Carolina's capital are down 37 percent compared to this time last year. And with an end to COVID-19 still far from reality, the cash-strapped city has slashed expenses and paused long-awaited projects. That includes plans for the much-neglected downtown park once called Columbia's "Crown Jewel." The renovation relied, in...

BIG by Matt Stoller Mark Zuckerberg and Sundar Pichai need to be indicted. Hi, Welcome to BIG, a newsletter about the politics of monopoly and finance. If you’d like to sign up, you can do so here. Or just read on… Today’s issue is about the various antitrust cases against Google and Facebook announced this week, and why it’s time to issue criminal indictments against the executives responsible for the bad behavior. Plus: Legendary judge Jed Rakoff issues a ruling threatening private equity’s business model. A BIG reader discusses the health care monopoly situation in New Jersey.

use of technology is stringing along at its own course and is creating a flood of leaks, sometimes of classified information. i will just give you one example. i visited a company called subversive for the conclusion of the book is and traverse a has clients, big corporations, big law firms, big medical companies who believe for some reason their proprietary information is out there on the web, maybe someone brought some work home and it got out there. so they are hired to go look for it and retrieve it and as they do that they have stumbled upon reams and reams of classified inform...

not wipe out. just like that. and there will always have a base among the people if the people do not feel the government serves their interest which is the trouble of most latin american countries toda . . >> the united states troop had authority under the treaty to help put that down. and so the united states established itself as always being a favor of putting down even democratic rebellions in order to preserve order and stability. and then after 1900, you know, in the roosevelt, munro doctrine and all this, it goes on and on and on. when was the last time we invaded a latin unt...