The question of Professor Budil’s distinction between productive and speculative capitalism—or, alternatively, between latent and manifest capitalism—comes up from time to time, particularly regarding how I see the matter and…
“Parallel Islamic courts are, by their very nature, intolerable in any reasonably well-governed state, because the state, by definition, must hold a monopoly over lawmaking and the administration of justice,”…
This week I had the opportunity to speak in a small group with Professor Budil. He was able to clarify several of the more difficult aspects of his theory of…
Like The Great Feminization was last year’s conservative essay of note, this year’s is Niall Ferguson’s The Death of History (not to be confused with Fukuyama’s The End of History).…
Czech anthropology professor Ivo Budil observed in an excellent interview that what keeps contemporary society obedient to liberal elites is neither brute force, nor an overwhelming police apparatus, nor the…
“Humanity’s moral intelligence has, according to a number of authors, gradually increased over the centuries, and some scholars believe this development has been driven by the advance of science and…
