We're hearing a lot on the news these days about America's debt ceiling and the danger of defaulting on our national debt. But the way this is being portrayed in the media is mostly a lie. No matter what Congress does on the debt ceiling, whether they raise it or not, we bring in 10 times as much in taxes every month as we need to keep … [Read more...]
How to Understand Budgets and Treaties – Oliver DeMille
October 4, 2013 by Leave a Comment
The feedback is coming in, and a lot of people who are newly reading treaties and government budgets are asking some really great questions. Mostly they boil down to two main things. First A lot of people are struggling to really understand how government finances and currencies work. This isn't surprising. Lenin is credited with saying that … [Read more...]
Politics is Getting Fun! -Oliver DeMille
October 1, 2013 by Leave a Comment
According to the old saying, the two things regular people don't want to watch are sausage making and law making. This has been true for decades, or actually centuries. But three people have changed this in the past year. Ted Cruz, Mike Lee, and Rand Paul have made watching politics fun again. Or fun for the first time, as the case may … [Read more...]
What is the “Remnant”? -Oliver DeMille
September 30, 2013 by 1 Comment
I recently gave a speech entitled "The Four Reasons Freedom is Losing the Current Battle for Liberty," and during it I mentioned that the real battle isn't between conservatives and liberals, or the Right and the Left, Hawks or Doves, or Red versus Blue states. It's between the Establishment and the Remnant. I found that there was little need to … [Read more...]
The Line Between Good and Evil
September 27, 2013 by Leave a Comment
Most people today have never heard of the Syntopicon. But when the Great Books of Western Civilization were compiled and published nearly 60 years ago, it was the crowning achievement. Covering nearly 3,000 years of Western thought, the Syntopicon contains over 163,000 references to every idea and topic within the Great Books. Compiling the … [Read more...]
Government Secrecy Kills Freedom – Oliver DeMille
September 25, 2013 by 5 Comments
It's one of the main plots in Hollywood movies and popular TV dramas. The government knows some secret information, but won’t share it because it might cause panic in the regular people. This is the justification for modern government secrecy, spying on its people, and even torture. In the name of security, apparently everything is okay for the … [Read more...]
When the Government Lies – Oliver DeMille
September 23, 2013 by 1 Comment
There's lots of talk right now about the people losing trust in government. The current wisdom seems concerned that this is a bad development, that the government can only continue to grow and expand if the people trust what it is doing. As Orrin Woodward and I recently wrote, the American founders thought the people should strongly mistrust … [Read more...]
Careers & Freedom, Part 2 – Oliver DeMille
September 20, 2013 by 2 Comments
Read Part 1 Here Most people in the modern world tend to see human history as a long progress from tribal societies to the Agrarian Revolutions that brought communities and cities and civilization, to the Industrial Revolution’s advanced technology, and now further progress into the Information Age. From this view, education and careers have … [Read more...]
Careers & Freedom, Part 1 – Oliver DeMille
September 19, 2013 by Leave a Comment
Certain people are more suited for freedom than others. As Jefferson taught, all of us are created equal and endowed by our Creator with inalienable rights. Still, all through history, eras of freedom are very rare. The reason for this is historically clear: The people never stay free when they leave their freedom to any group of elites; … [Read more...]
The Real Fall of Rome – Oliver DeMille
September 17, 2013 by 2 Comments
Why it Isn’t What Most People Think, and Why it is Essential Knowledge For All of Us When I finished reading Livy’s history of early Rome this summer, I was still excited about Roman history and went looking for other books on the topic. I found a lot of mediocre books and a few good ones. And also one great one! At the same time, I received a … [Read more...]
