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In case you haven't noticed, I haven't been posting on Steemit. I kind of got bored with this platform. Plus, my ideas have changed significantly since I started posting here. If you are interested in

The Essence of Conservatism & of Progressivism The essence of conservatism is its recognition of the importance of stability, security, and social order. It views revolution and insurrection as bad

This is an excellent work. A series of 4 short articles written by Noel Skelton in 1923/1924. This shows a living conservatism that evolved with the times, making improvements upon standard traditional

This post is by no means going to be comprehensive. I am certainly not up to the task of developing a comprehensive theory of the business cycle. That task must be left up to someone else. I just want

The Changing Face of Liberalism With the 20th century, a new liberalism was becoming prominent. Classical liberals had held that the proper role of government is to protect individual liberty, but they

The New Democrats We are starting to see social democrats grow in popularity. Individuals like Bernie Sanders, Beto O’Rourke, Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, and Ilhan Omar have become extremely popular. For

Thomas Jefferson and Thomas Paine, in my estimation, are the most interesting of the American Founding Fathers. In a previous post, I discussed Thomas Jefferson's Political and Economic Vision. Now I want

Thomas Jefferson’s Ward Republic Model Thomas Jefferson did not see the American system as the best possible system. In his original draft of The Declaration of Independence, Jefferson had blamed the British

What if neoliberalism and socialism are both flawed ideologies? The neoliberal critique of marxism is pretty solid. Hayek and Mises did a good job of demonstrating that central planning is problematic,

Ayn Rand sucked at life. Her books were garbage and no one loved her, not even Rothbard. Also, "If there's one thing that will not be tolerated here, it's imprecision of language." Harvey Beardman

"...Plato's political programme, far from being morally superior to totalitarianism, is fundamentally identical with it."—Karl Popper (The Open Society & Its Enemies) There are clear parallels

On Law Libertarian social democracy, as I conceive it, is neo-republican. Republicanism defines liberty as the absence of domination. This differs from the definition used by most people today. Typically,

Trans rights are human rights! Immigrant rights are human rights! Gay rights are human rights! Women’s rights are human rights! Black lives are human lives! This latest Trump admin attack on trans people

What distinguishes my model of libertarian social democracy from conventional social democracy is that it is neither capitalist nor socialist but geo-distributist. It uses land value tax to fund a citizen's

If you are libertarian, you have to be a prison abolitionist. The prison system is modern day slavery, the antithesis of liberty. 1 out of every 110 adults in America is incarcerated. Many of them are

Utilitarianism seems self-evidently true. You can disagree with the particulars, but the essence is correct—happiness and pleasure are good, while suffering and pain are bad. The utilitarianism of Mill

[note: In this essay, I use the term “progressive” in a broad sense, indicating political ideologies that are oriented towards rapid social change and that believe social change/progress is either inherently

The Historical Basis of Anti-Abortionist Sentiment If we put aside all metaphysical and religious dogma and rely only on facts, or objective truths, then it is impossible to arrive at a hard anti-abortion

I despise American “conservatism” today, because it is not really conservatism. It is merely nationalist rightism. Historically, conservatism meant something—it stood for something! Now, it just means

Socialism proper refers to the advocacy of some sort of collective, social, or public ownership of industry/enterprise and, usually, of land as well. We find many different varieties of socialism. Ricardian