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The environmental limit looks to be solved by the ingenuity that caused the Great Enrichment in the first place.
Oct 24
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Despite Doubts from the Left
But after all the new machines are in fact necessary for the happy result of enriching the workingmen.
Oct 18
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Inequality Is Not the Problem
The absolute condition of the poor has been raised overwhelmingly more by the Great Enrichment than by regulation or redistribution.
Oct 14
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Grown-Up Democracy
How can we reconcile democracy with liberalism? Grow up. Become ethical adults, not 3-year-olds. Stop expecting everything from the state.
Oct 8
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The Poor Were Made Much Better Off
The mechanism that raised up the poor is not a trickle down of expenditures from rich people.
Oct 3
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September 2026
Let It Work
Why do some economists, including your reporter, believe that an economy works?
Sep 26
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As Your Own Life Shows
The enrichment came mainly from bourgeois liberty and creativity unbridled, not from piling up constraints on voluntary deals or from redistributing…
Sep 21
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Then Many of Us Shot Up the Blade of a Hockey Stick
The real engine was the expanding ideology of liberty and dignity that inspired the proliferating schemes of betterment by and for the common people.
Sep 12
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August 2026
Glorious Amateuring
Amateurism is splendid, part of a full human life, possible in a rich modern world in which such amateur, hobby, unprofessional interests can be pursued…
Aug 30
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A Philosophical Psychology?
The seven virtues in modern psychological science
Aug 27
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The System of the Virtues
Against moral monism: Restoring the full system of virtue
Aug 25
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The Pagan-Ethical Bourgeois
How commercial society transformed the classical virtues
Aug 19
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