In Ancient Greece sophists were teachers who taught virtue, which in those days generally meant the art of statesmanship, to young men rich enough to afford their services. Sophistry, as their art was called, is a trade much criticized in the dialogues of Plato, where Socrates attacks not only the practice of teaching for a […]
The drums are all beat, declaring defeat, before the army might have won. And those who embark to live in the dark see shadows where there are none. Light begets light, and a pale truth of right shall always be what remains;Yet dismal masses in fear always are near And force the righteous gleam to wain. […]
By Sean Dempsey, 3/19/25 This is a response to Max Baecker’s terribly misguided recent piece in Forbes. The Real Cause of Rising Commodity Prices: Inflation, Not a Bubble The surge in commodity prices today is not the result of a speculative bubble but rather a direct consequence of inflation caused by a massive expansion of […]
