Readers of The Fourth Estate may recall my own readings of Oswald Spengler’s Prussianism and Socialism back in 2021.This pamphlet, which was meant to complement Volume II of The Decline of the West, essentially argued that Socialism did not originate… Read More ›
United States
Fragments on Judiciaries and Constitutions
We oftentimes tend to think of Judiciaries as apolitical institutions intended to enforce the law and hold the Totality and even the State to account. Constitutions are the supreme law, defining all Intents and Obligations for the State, Totality, and… Read More ›
A Reading of “How to Transform US Politics—and How Not To”
In an America where so much of what passes as political-economic discourse is thoroughly Jeffersonianism, what are the most fundamental characteristics of Hamiltonianism? Hamiltonianism stresses that political-economic power belongs to the Union–the American people, whose Sovereignty is enshrined in the… Read More ›
On Rearmaments of Post-1945 Japan and West Germany
The Jeffersonian Empire of Liberty is being confronted by its own temporality. The “Unipolar Moment” which the Jeffersonians have been trying to build throughout the early 20th century has come to an end. America’s fiscal health is hardly suitable for… Read More ›
Planning for This Week’s Posts
I have a few ideas on what I would like to write about sometime this week, but I am still trying to figure out which one deserves to be articulated first. Overall, I have narrowed my ideas to three proposed… Read More ›
Work-Standard Accounting Practices: Accounting Standards (Pt. I of II)
Much like the concept of a national educational system, contemporary understandings of the Accounting Profession are a byproduct of the two World Wars and the Great Depression. The Accounting Profession found itself pressed to assist in the allocations of their… Read More ›
Postmodernity and Rise of Social Communions
Yesterday’s latest Entry of Work-Standard Accounting Practices, “Managerial Cost Accounting,” showcased two accounting methods associated with Eugen Schmalenbach. Schmalenbach was a well-known German economist within German academia who is unknown nowadays, even though his contributions to accounting had gone on… Read More ›
The Future’s Uncertain and the End is Always Near — What Andy Thinks
Yesterday, the monthly consumer price index report, which measures inflation, came out and showed that inflation for December was negative. That is 6 months in a row now where inflation has slowed down compared to where it was during the first half… Read More ›
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