Music
Baroque music was fought over in courts, theatres, and pamphlets. Out of duels, diva feuds, and national quarrels arose les goĂ»ts rĂ©unisâa shared European musical language, cosmopolitan yet born of rivalry.
Economics and Development
In 2023, more than 100 economists warned Javier Mileiâs election would spell âdevastationâ for Argentina. Two years later, GDP is rising, inflation is falling, and fiscal surpluses return. The devastation was not economic but epistemic: the cost of mistaking consensus for truth.
Technology
In 1949, Ludwig von Mises warned that polylogismâtruth divided by class or raceâdestroys rational discourse. Today, digital echo chambers risk reviving that danger, fracturing public reason into parallel, tribal logics.
Moral Courage
In 1980 GdaĆsk workers demanded not only bread but justice and dignity. SolidarnoĆÄ became a union of contradictionsâconservative in memory, liberal in conscience, socialist in solidarityâechoing KoĆakowskiâs call to hold values in mutual correction.
OP-ED
A single syllabusâHayek, Popper, Berlin, Aronâbecame a lifelong inoculation against neo-Marxism. Those books formed a literature of liberty, teaching that freedom is fragile, pluralism irreducible, and ideology always seductive. Once read, they cannot be unread.
Moral Courage
The public intellectual once guided common sense, wrestled with contradiction, and spoke truth at a cost. Today, algorithms reward traction, not clarity. Revisiting Aron, KoĆakowski, and MacIntyre reminds us: liberty requires voices that dare to interfere.
Technology
Teslaâs Master Plan IV is more than a roadmapâit is a vision of abundance joined with dignity, liberty, and conscience. If guided wisely, it could stand as one of humanityâs most extraordinary achievements: progress not as parody, but as promise fulfilled.
Freedom
Tribalism spares us the torment of contradiction. It is the analgesic of our age: soothing, numbing, deadly. Freedom, by contrast, demands painâthe courage to endure dissonance, to be unsettled, and to keep thinking when belonging tempts us to stop.
Moral Courage
Charlie Kirkâs death is tragedy enough. The mockery that followed threatens something larger: the very foundation of pluralism and the principle without which democracy cannot endure â that human beings are ends, never means.
Freedom
Charlie Kirk refused the bargain of silence. Where we traded conviction for comfort, he spoke with courage. His voice broke the hush of conformity and left us with a charge: to find our own voices, and to remember that freedom lives only when defended.
Freedom
Compassion, rightly lived, is suffering-with, bound to truth and responsibility. But false compassionâsentiment without judgmentâbecomes spectacle: pity that flatters, politics that infantilize, care that corrodes freedom.
Freedom
Populism, wrote Christopher Lasch, is less a doctrine than a rebellion of the scorned. Trumpâs rise was not ideology but interruption: a voice for the forgotten, exposing brittle elites and forcing America to confront its distance from its own people.