Month: October 2025

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A Dire Warning from James Wilson

Inspired by the October 22, 2025 episode of the Tenth Amendment Center’s Path to Liberty
https://blog.tenthamendmentcenter.com/2025/10/even-the-law-isnt-above-the-law/

Bringing together two quotes from James Wilson, from his Speech to the Pennsylvania Convention on Nov. 24, 1787:
https://teachingamericanhistory.org/document/speech-to-the-pennsylvania-convention/

and his Lectures on Law:
https://contextus.org/James_Wilson’s_Lectures_on_Law_(1789_to_1791)%2C_Part_1%2C_Chapter_I_Introductory_Lecture_Of_The_Study_Of_The_Law_In_The_United_States.64?lang=en&with=all&lang2=en

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They Dare Call It “Security”

Full written show notes in PDF format here.

Some thoughts about the recent assault of Emiru at TwitchCon developed into thoughts about calling things what they aren’t, high-trust societies decaying into low-trust societies, and where attacks on property rights eventually lead.

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The Final Indignity

Critique of Rousseau’s Social Contract, part 19

We’ve finally reached the conclusion of this mess of a book, and guess what? It gets even worse right at the end. Book 4, Chapter 8 is about “Civil Religion” and while you might be unsurprised that religion clashes with Rousseau’s concept of a State, it actually gets much worse.

Written show notes here.

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Seven Essential Austrian Essays

Review of
Hayek for the 21st Century
Essays in Political Economy

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https://mises.org/hayek21

This little book contains some of the most important economic and political essays written in the 20th century, and many of these ideas still need more defense in the 21st.

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Three More Awful Institutions

Critique of Rousseau’s Social Contract, part 18

It just keeps getting worse… This week we’re looking at Book 4, Chs. 5-7. In these chapters, Rousseau introduces three new, weird, dangerous institutions to… “help.”

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