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• Update (8 July 2022)

  By Duty and Honor on July 8, 2022 • ( 0 )

  Earlier this morning, just as I was beginning to work on the next half of “Post-Cold War Legal Ambiguities,” the mainstream news has reported that former Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe was assassinated. Of all the places in the world… Read More ›

• Post-Cold War Legal Ambiguities (Pt. I of II)

  By Duty and Honor on July 7, 2022 • ( 1 )

  

  Most of the grand narratives surrounding the ongoing Russian-Ukrainian conflict are all questions pertaining to the national sovereignty of the Ukraine. The official position of Post-Soviet Russia is that Ukraine is allegedly run by Ukrainian ultranationalists who at one point… Read More ›

• Update (7 July 2022)

  By Duty and Honor on July 7, 2022 • ( 0 )

  

  Yesterday had left me so preoccupied that I was never able to commit anything to the Blog like another post or two. There are not that many personal articles penned by Julius Krein which warranted enough attention to be commented… Read More ›

• Conservative Socialism: On Julius Krein (Pt. II of II)

  By Duty and Honor on July 5, 2022 • ( 0 )

  

  In another American Conservative publication, American Compass, Julius devoted an article to the question of economic planning within Hamiltonianism. He maintained throughout “Planning for When the Market Cannot” that there will always be a necessity for economic planning in any… Read More ›

• Conservative Socialism: On Julius Krein (Pt. I of II)

  By Duty and Honor on July 4, 2022 • ( 0 )

  

  There are two articles which are worthy of mention here. Even though The Fourth Estate is strongly in favor of promoting a political discourse that is neither Left nor Right nor even Center, that does not mean the Blog should… Read More ›

• Update (3 July 2022)

  By Duty and Honor on July 3, 2022 • ( 0 )

  Due to having already set plans for the weekend since the beginning of this month, I currently have nothing ready for posting at the moment. Tomorrow may be different as I am thinking of setting aside time to write what… Read More ›

• Economic History Case Studies: Asian Tigers (Pt. III of III)

  By Duty and Honor on July 1, 2022 • ( 0 )

  

  Taiwan, formerly known as “Formosa,” has historically been an island contested by various colonial powers vying for control of neighboring Mainland China. Its geographical location also made it ideal for facilitating trade between China, Korea and Japan, which was exactly… Read More ›

• ‘Left-Hamiltonians’ and ‘Right-Hamiltonians’?

  By Duty and Honor on July 1, 2022 • ( 0 )

  

  Alright, I finally figured out what should be the theme for next week’s set of posts. Aside from the fact that it has been a while since I last posted anything related to “Thus Spoke Lenin,” it has also been… Read More ›

• Economic History Case Studies: Asian Tigers (Pt. II of III)

  By Duty and Honor on June 30, 2022 • ( 0 )

  

  Similar to Hong Kong, Singapore’s economic history was shaped by its former status as a British colony. The city-state once dubbed by Winston Churchill as the “Gibraltar of the East” came into being as another entrepôt for the British Empire…. Read More ›

• American Affairs Journal: Vanguard of Conservative Socialism?

  By Duty and Honor on June 29, 2022 • ( 0 )

  

  Aside from the ARPLAN Blog, there is another intellectual publication that I also subscribe to. American Affairs, a quarterly journal, is known for articles related to manufacturing, trade, infrastructure and social issues from a distinctly non-Jeffersonian form of thought. The… Read More ›