Clarifying the difference between today's Left and today's Right: * The Left wants the government to own grocery stores. * The Right wants the government to own computer companies.

A FOURTH WAY of (Russian) POLITICS? Alexander DUGIN Lecture 7 of *The Philosophy of Politics: From the Cold War to After 9/11* Dugin: “The entirety of Russian history is a dialectical argument with the West and against Western culture … The brightest Russian minds clearly saw

Good news.

CEE interviews on entrepreneurship, ethics, and political economy: CEE interviews on entrepreneurship, ethics, and political economy: Noel, Thompson, Chamlee-Wright, Horwitz, Sandefur, and others stephenhicks.org/2025/08/17/cee… stephenhicks.org/2025/08/17/cee…

Philosophy, and focusing on what matters.

Good big-picture point.

Impressive consistency.

Exemplars of diversity and inclusion.

On loving one's neighbor.

Abi likes to imagine spending other people's money. Abi wants to take away parents' right to give to their loved ones. Abi is not a good person.

Canada's sluggishness over the last decade.

Yes.

Thanks, Yash.

This week's featured lecture: VEILED JUSTICE POLITICS. John RAWLS. Lecture 2 of *The Philosophy of Politics: From the Cold War to After 9/11* Rawls was the most influential academic political philosopher of the 20th century. More here: stephenhicks.org/2025/08/23/vei…

Political “isms”—Liberalism, Socialism, Fascism, Conservatism, etc.—integrate answers to at least *eight* questions about social purposes and methods. Hence everyone’s dissatisfaction with simplistic “left” and “right” labels. In this 2025 talk in Austin, TX, “The Political

Makes sense: An angry guy walks into a bar and says to the bartender, "All politicians are assholes!" The guy sitting at the end of the bar says, "Just a minute, I resent that." "Why? You a politician?" "No. I'm an asshole."