Liberty's Torch

(a.k.a. Bastion Of Liberty)

"Keep clear of the dupes that talk democracy,
And the dogs that bark revolution.
Drunk with talk, liars and believers.
I believe in my tusks.
Long live freedom and damn the ideologies!"
(Robinson Jeffers)

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Showing posts with label experts. Show all posts
Saturday, October 31, 2026

For Your Own Good Dept.

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     “Death is the price we pay for our life, and for all life.” – Ursula Le Guin, The Farthest Shore      “No one here gets out alive.” –...
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Tuesday, September 29, 2026

On Not Forgetting

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     “For it is the doom of men that they forget.” – Nicol Williamson as Merlin, in Excalibur      Indeed it is. Worse, we have a tendenc...
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Sunday, August 31, 2025

Conditioned To Deference

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     Allow me to open this piece with a snippet from Frederic Bastiat’s great pro-freedom treatise The Law:      [A celebrated traveler] a...
Friday, May 1, 2020

Quickies: Concerning Experts, Authorities, And Journalists

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     There’s a reason why journalists should always keep their distance from priesthoods in any field. It’s particularly in the nature of in...
Saturday, April 25, 2020

For Our Descendants

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Time, like an ever-rolling stream, Bears all its sons away; They fly, forgotten, as a dream Dies at the opening day. [Isaac Watts, “O Go...
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