Peter Sloterdijk on the predatory German welfare state
As the United States makes rapid progress to become just another European-style welfare state, one of Germany’s most controversial intellectuals, Peter Sloterdijk, initiates a public debate with an offensive on the welfare state that takes no prisoners, even by American standards: To assess the unprecedented scale that the modern democratic state has attained in Europe, [...]
The destruction of self-help by state intervention
The Independent Institute’s quarterly Independent Review is a worthy publication. The journal produces well researched and innovative scholarly articles in the classical liberal tradition, avoiding excessive emphasis on “public policy libertarianism” on the one hand, and avoiding an exclusive emphasis on a single school of economic thought (such as Austrian Economics) on the other. The [...]
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- Cryonics and fear of the future
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