The Freedom of Enough
There are two paths to wealth—or even to a comfortably secure financial life. One is to become skilled at earning a great deal of money. The other is to stop…
The End of Industrial Society
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…
The End of Sovereignty
“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,”…
State and capital
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…
When Taboos Collapse
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).…
The fear of status
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…