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• Debt to GDP Alarm Bells Ring, Neither Party Will Solve This | MishTalk

  By Duty and Honor on September 16, 2023 • ( 0 )

• On the Republicans’ Crossroads of “Project 2025”  

  By Duty and Honor on September 15, 2023 • ( 0 )

  

  When a “political party” operates primarily as an opposition party championing the other half of Neoliberalism, only to find itself unable to govern its own nation, it does not take too long to figure out that they are incapable of… Read More ›

• Everyone Happy? Student Loan Repayment

  By Duty and Honor on September 15, 2023 • ( 2 )

  We could even permit the conversion of existing loans to maturity dates at the borrower age of 62, alleviating sentiments of injustice. The current student loan policy mess exemplifies the words of Frederic Bastiat as “the great fiction, through which… Read More ›

• The Complicated Mess to Restart Student Loan Payments Is On Purpose

  By Duty and Honor on September 15, 2023 • ( 0 )

  President Biden does not want student loan payments to start. The easiest way is to make it an understaffed, complicated mess. The Complicated Mess to Restart Student Loan Payments Is On Purpose

• Apologetic Sermon Illustration #88: Finance department hires consultant to advise on hiring consultants

  By Duty and Honor on September 14, 2023 • ( 1 )

  GO TO PART 87 Point: Sometimes when I hear those who are hardened nonbelievers determine what they think should be the criteria of evidences for God and Christianity it just doesn’t sound right.  There’s no neutrality; see Apologetics Session 2:… Read More ›

• Marx, Faraday and the Spectral Objectivity of Value (CU 2023 talk)

  By Duty and Honor on September 13, 2023 • ( 0 )

  What did Marx mean by the “spectral objectivity of value”? Why did he mention the Victorian spiritual practice of summoning spirits into tables in the first paragraph of his famous chapter “On the fetishism of commodities”? And what has Michael… Read More ›

• Bad Economics (Is There Another Kind Any More?)

  By Duty and Honor on September 13, 2023 • ( 0 )

  I was reading the “news” yesterday morning (mostly opinions) and I ran across this: The age-old economic doctrine of “comparative advantage” assumes that more trade is good for all nations because each trading partner specializes in what it does best…. Read More ›

• Fragment on Historicism and Scientism in Straussian Philosophy

  By Duty and Honor on September 12, 2023 • ( 0 )

  Philosophy is an intellectual exercise in the pursuit of knowledge, wisdom, and truth. When Philosophies become political, they yield Worldviews that can potentially inform Ideologies, which in turn can provide the means by which to govern the State. History and… Read More ›

• Fragment on Straussian Philosophy in the American Right

  By Duty and Honor on September 11, 2023 • ( 0 )

  Throughout my graduate education at university, I kept hearing that the German philosopher Leo Strauss has been significantly influential on the “American Right” since the 20th century. I have known that Straussian philosophy played a huge role in modeling Jeffersonian… Read More ›

• Cryptocurrency Startup Loses Encryption Key for Electronic Wallet

  By Duty and Honor on September 11, 2023 • ( 1 )

  The cryptocurrency fintech startup Prime Trust lost the encryption key to its hardware wallet — and the recovery key — and therefore $38.9 million. It is now in bankruptcy. I can’t understand why anyone thinks these technologies are a good… Read More ›