Thor “Gracchus” Gunnels

Morning in America, Evening in Hell Why "To Live and Die in L.A." and "The Bonfire of the Vanities" Saw Through Reaganism

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Welcome Home, Empire Our Democracy in Military Fatigues

Where I channel Hannah Arendt.

Pluralism, Partisanship, and Patriotism There is no conflict between liberal institutions and liberal partisan politics.

“Despite what you might hear coming out of the Manhattan Institute these days, no liberal worthy of the name advocates the death penalty for having insufficient commitment to trans rights or the public funding of science.” www.liberalcurrents.com/pluralism-pa...

A Lisbeth Salander Hot Take Stieg Larsson's Criticism Of The Welfare State

Subtitle should also say “and Why Libertarians Never Took It Up”

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The Loot Train Battle - From Feudal to Futile Or Why Forming a Shield Wall Against a Dragon is Peak Westerosi Strategic Thinking

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Up next: an article on why so many libertarian academics fall prey to pseudo history and pseudo archaeology.

When DHS Uses a White Lady in a Nightgown to Rewrite History Or How A Multiracial Army Actually Won the Battle of New Orleans While The Kentucky Militiamen Ran Like Hell

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Dude, the Market Will Regulate Murder How Some Libertarians Convinced Themselves the Blood-Soaked Wild West Was a Peaceful Utopia

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David Hume: Classical Liberalism's Most Awkward Ancestor Or why Hume would have wanted Mises to "show me the money"

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Born to Run - But Drive More Carefully A Short Meditation on Music, Mortality, and the Friends We Lose Young

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I probably should have mentioned Cato as well, but I was already aware of the various personalities they would regularly invite to speak at Cato events or were Cato scholars. Though not directly related, that they kept O’Toole on so long still surprises me.

The Bastards of Mont Pèlerin Hayek's Bastards should serve as a reminder to the defenders of Hayek and neoliberalism generally to be vigilant in differentiating themselves from the far right figures and groups that have attempted...

Excited to publish @syennesis.bsky.social at @liberalcurrents.com. He review Quinn Slobodian's Hayek's Bastards. Enjoy this view from Mont Pèlerin!

Continental Reckoning: A Review of Elliott West's Challenge to Western Mythology It Wasn't Just Cowboys

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No Gods, No Masters, No Friends When Ayn Rand and Milton Friedman Become Your Therapist

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The Master's Invisible Hand Or the Myth of Market-Driven Emancipation

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Bomb, Bomb Iran Why Bombing Iran Is Folly and the U.S. Never Learns

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Liberty on the Track Or How Running Went Woke

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Good Vibrations With the recent passing of Brian Wilson I thought I would share my thoughts about “Good Vibrations” in a few short paragraphs.

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Hayek the Pseudoscientist Or How Hayek’s Tale of the Savanna is Nonsense

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Or maybe it captured me, but not in the way that Rand would have wanted. 3/3

I mean, I love Cormac McCarthy and I know people who loathe his writing and think it’s turgid, overly nihilistic, etc. Still, at the end of the day I do find Rand’s writing very sterile. It has never captured me. 2/2

Gotcha. I hope this doesn’t seem like a cop out, but how one sees literature is fairly subjective. I’ll take your thoughts into consideration and maybe revisit them again in a future post. 1/2

Ayn Rand’s Self-Made Supermen And Campbell’s Monomyth Or Atlas Shrugged So Hard It Broke the Hero’s Journey

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Ayn Rand’s Self-Made Supermen And Campbell’s Monomyth Or Atlas Shrugged So Hard It Broke the Hero’s Journey

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Ayn Rand and the Civil Rights Movement Or why she thought the 1964 Civil Rights Act was a Orwellian nightmare in the making

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Ayn Rand and the Civil Rights Movement Or why she thought the 1964 Civil Rights Act was a Orwellian nightmare in the making

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FWIW, I’ve decided to make a four part series about Ayn Rand. The remaining three will be on the civil rights movement, altruism and homosexuality.

Is Israel a "Genocidal State?" Or why am I trying to piss everyone off?

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also you all need to see this, because this is something I don't think *anybody* could predict for where this ad goes

Liberalism and Religious Skepticism The relationship between religious skepticism and liberalism’s skepticism of religious institutions is both complex and historically rich.

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Modern Patriarchal Fantasies and the “Neolithic World War” “War was always here.

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