@SheldonRichman

Father, grandfather, lover of liberty, justice, reason, and pipe tobacco. Keeper of the Free Association newsletter on Substack. https://xitter.cf/t.co/KS7Fczc7nF.

 Arkansas, USA
Joined September 2008
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Socialism is not even good in theory, so don't bother trying to figure out how to make it work in practice.
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If people were termites, the story might be different.
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Marx got one thing right: colonial rule by Britain was preferable to colonial rule by anyone else. (H/T @BruceDGilley)
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It's right what they say about stopped clocks.
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The Israeli violence in Gaza and the West Bank is the apotheosis of the Herzl-Ben-Gurion project. Some prescient Jews warned of this from the start.
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One can hold this view AND be pro-West. The anti-Westers contaminate the case.
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Trump & Co. continue to drag the country into the sewer.
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The Republican symbol should be changed to a barf bag.
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“Nothing is more Western than hatred of the West.” --Pascal Bruckner (H/T: Maarten Boudry)
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That's true because dissent is not suppressed.
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Heroic debunkers of the West-bashers: Biggar, Gilley, Warraq, Boudry.
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I forgot Jeff Fynn-Paul. Sorry!
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The best case against Western colonialism is that it was compulsory altruism. The home taxpayers were forced to pay to improve the lives of unfortunate, oppressed people in the primitive world. It should have been done privately.
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TGIF: Sumner’s Worries Should Be Our Worries Too sheldonrichman.substack.com/…
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Chelsea Olivia Follett
@chelliviaOct 22
𝘛𝘩𝘦 𝘎𝘳𝘪𝘮 𝘖𝘭𝘥 𝘋𝘢𝘺𝘴 seeks to correct this. Out now.
Joey Viljoen
@JViljoen43711Oct 21
Replying to @ConjectureInst @mboudry @chellivia @HumanProgress
Most people don't know enough history to realize this.
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Fear Vance.
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youtu.be/rXAsA3l_crQ?is=xYjy… @chellivia

The Grim Old Days with Chelsea Follett

October 22, 2026 - Our guest for Episode 197 of the Free the Econom...

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"Decolonize" is a code word for illiberal stuff. Beware.
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Kudos, Chelsea Follett! @chellivia
Michael Chapman
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The Grim Old Days cato.org/books/grim-old-days… #CatoBooks via @CatoInstitute

The Grim Old Days

The Grim Old Days is an in-depth study of life prior to the Industrial Revolution—revealing that the world our preindustrial ancestors inhabited was more gruesome than modern minds can fathom.

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Trump wears a USA ball cap at his rallies to remind MAGA which country they're in.
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