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Swedish origins of ‘liberal’ as a political label
Georg Adlersparre1770s Scots christened the political adjective ‘liberal.’ But the first noun ‘liberals’—exponents of a national ‘liberal’ party or movement—were in Sweden, beating Spain by a nose! "...the Spanish liberales got the word, just like the Swedish liberals, from their Scottish hero [Adam Smith]."
Adam Smith and British Bubbles???
There’s a delightful moment in Adam Smith’s Wealth of Nations where he neatly demonstrates the efficacy and efficiency of free trade by talking about wine... So why are the French buying up vineyard land in England???
Douglas Den Uyl and Douglas Rasmussen on Ayn Rand: What She Gets Right and Where She Goes Too Far
We’ve talked about objectivism before on the podcast , but that was fairly introductory. Today, for the first time ever, I host two guests on the podcast to discuss the limitations of objectivism and where it fails to depict the good life. We talk about how they got interested in Rand’s thought, how they philosophically dealt with works that were mostly fiction, and where their philosophy, individualistic perfectionism, diverges from Rand’s and fills in some important blanks.