Filling up your car is a big deal. George Gilder has made the crucial point that all the inputs for cars and gasoline are as old as the earth, but that cars and fuel only reached mankind for a tiny fraction of the earth’s existence: early 20th century to the present. Gilder notes that […]
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The frequently excellent Bret Stephens was thrilled about Secretary of State Marco Rubio’s elevation of Western civilization in his Munich Security Conference speech last week. Stephens desires a renewed reverence for the civilizational qualities that shaped Europe, and subsequently the United States. He laments the “damage” done to “normal citizens in modern democracies who,
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Adam Smith’s observation that “the sole use of money is to circulate consumable goods” cannot be repeated enough. It explains so much, and in particular it explains why world leaders were so eager to convene at Bretton Woods in 1944 so that the world’s currencies could be pegged to a dollar that was defined
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Andy Kessler writes in his latest Wall Street Journal column that the U.S. “is strong precisely because we don’t all think the same way. New ideas come from new ways of thinking.” Kessler puts it so well. We individuals generally see the present and future very differently, and it’s this very division praised by Kessler that powers
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