There is a comfortable story we like to tell ourselves. It goes something like this: all human beings are born wanting freedom, and the arc of history bends naturally toward liberty. It is a beautiful idea. It is also, according to Samuel Huntington, almost entirely wrong. Huntington, the Harvard political scientist best known for The […]
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Most of what you learned in school is already wrong. Not wrong in the way a typo is wrong. Wrong in the way a map of the world from 1400 is wrong. The basic shapes are there, but entire continents are missing, the proportions are off, and someone has drawn sea monsters where Australia should
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Most people spend their entire lives trying to be right. They collect opinions like trophies, defend them like territory, and treat any challenge to their beliefs as a personal attack. Karl Popper thought this was exactly backwards. He argued that the whole point of knowledge is not to prove yourself right but to find out
There is a particular kind of loneliness that comes with running a company. Not the romantic, misunderstood genius kind. The operational kind. The kind where you sit across from a board that wants growth but not risk, employees who want vision but not change, and a market that rewards you on Friday for the same
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There is a story economists love to tell about how businesses get started. It goes something like this: someone has money, they risk that money on a venture, and if they are lucky or talented, they make more money. Capital in, profit out. Simple, clean, and almost entirely wrong. Israel Kirzner thought this story missed
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There is no faster way to clear a room of modern managers than to whisper the word “micro-management.” It ranks somewhere between “mandatory fun” and “reply all” on the list of workplace sins. We have spent the better part of three decades building a corporate culture that worships autonomy, trusts the process, and believes the
Most people watch election season the way they watch a football game. They pick a team, wear the colors, and scream at the television. They celebrate victories and mourn defeats as if something real just happened to them personally. Murray Rothbard, the economist and political theorist who spent decades dissecting the anatomy of state power,
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There is something almost comedic about the fact that in 2026, the most radical thing a person can do is think in a straight line. Not protest. Not post. Not perform outrage for an audience of strangers. Just think. Follow a premise to its conclusion. Refuse to accept a contradiction. That is the new rebellion,
There is a seductive idea floating around. It goes something like this: the reason central planning failed in the Soviet Union was not that central planning is inherently flawed. It failed because the planners were human. They were slow, biased, and working with pencils and telegrams. Give the job to a sufficiently advanced artificial intelligence,
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Most people think entrepreneurs are gamblers. They picture someone throwing their savings into a venture, rolling the dice, and hoping the market rewards their courage. This image is so deeply embedded in business culture that we barely question it anymore. We celebrate “risk takers” on magazine covers. We tell aspiring founders they need to “embrace
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