In my first article for this blog, which happened to be republished from a column of mine for the Foundation for Economic Education, I asked what “European values” are supposed to be, and who gets to determine them. In the year leading up to the United Kingdom’s exit from the European Union, this question is […]
Pendant une bonne partie de mon adolescence, je n’imaginais pas que l’Europe centrale et orientale pouvaient être des destinations de voyage enviables. Je pourrais vous nommer tous les leaders français de la Révolution de 1789 à ce jour, et je pourrais même vous préciser que le lit de Napoléon dans sa résidence sur l’île italienne […]
In a recent opinion piece for everyone’s favourite newspaper, The Guardian, Rhik Samadder, makes the case of getting rid of your smart phone. His goal: leaving the phone in a different room, and only replying to messages once a day. We’ll leave the fact that Guardian columnists seemingly don’t need to react to breaking news, […]
Whenever there is a crisis, there are a num- ber of ways to deal with it. It stands to reason, in most situations, that an organisation re-evaluates the way it has been conducting itself, which may or may not have lead to the crisis in the first place. Brexit is such an opportunity for the […]
In France, radicalised students are blocking the entrance of multiple universities. Estimates count more than one million euros in damages, with higher education establishments being affected with damages of about €300,000. What exactly do these students want, and what needs to be done about their feeling of entitlement? A student’s fight against meritocracy French students […]
As the divorce between Britain and the European Union moves closer to its final deadline of March 2019, a number of observations can be made regarding the fallout. The overly optimistic “Leavers” and the forcefully hysterical “Remainers” are both wrong. For the most part, we cannot know what the future brings.
Who do you think you are kidding, Mr Hitler? There is a general rule when it comes to jokes: they are an expression of risk-taking. The less you know your audience, the less you can be assured of the fact if they’ll find your joke funny. This risk is particularly high when you joke about […]
Recent stories about a Students for Liberty member being kicked out of the movement for his support of the author Hans-Hermann Hoppe have revived debates between right- and left-libertarianism. Wait, what? When did I miss the bus on this new classification?
15 years ago, Belgium became the second country to allow same-sex marriages. A historic step for a small European country which is historically Catholic. Yet just as the Netherlands which had become the first country to provide equal access to marriage, Belgium adopted sort of a “no big deal” attitude towards people of the same […]
So Bitcoin just hit $17,000, or is it $20,000. By the time this is published, even if I review it ten minutes before sending it to our editor Daniel Fallenstein, the price of the most known crypto-currency probably reached another high. If you’re reading this some time in the future, you might think “Bitcoin?”, as it’s decline has […]
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