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View More NewsIn a special America 250 issue, Reason takes a look back at our country’s founding people and ideas. Read more here. Joanna Andreasson In “Why I Am Not a Conservative,” the economist F.A. Hayek averred that “what in Europe was called ‘liberalism’ was here the common tradition on which the American polity had been built.” He was neither the first nor the last to see America primarily as a nation rooted in individual liberty. Yet to think the United States is purely a liberal country is to take a truth too far. The Founders drew on a panoply of sources, from classical…
The S token, the native utility asset behind the Sonic blockchain, dipped on Friday after Sonic Labs announced the resignation of three former executives from its board. The S token fell to 0.031, down 5% over 24 hours. The resignations include Michael Kong, a former CEO of the Fantom Foundation and director at Sonic Labs; David Richardson, who served as executive chairman of Sonic Labs; and Andre Cronje, who previously served as its chief technology officer. Statement from Andre Cronje about his resignation from the board. Source: Andre Cronje“These are the people who built what Sonic is today. They remain invested in…
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What does it mean for a civilisation to turn against itself? In this episode, Quillette’s Zoe Sankey speaks with philosopher and author Benedict Beckeld — whose 2019 Quillette essay on oikophobia remains one of our site’s most popular pieces — about the recurring historical phenomenon he has spent his career documenting: the tendency of successful Western societies to denigrate their own culture, institutions, and inheritance.Oikophobia — Our Western Self-Hatred | Benedict Beckeld | QuilletteThe simplest way of defining oikophobia is as the opposite extreme of xenophobia.Drawing on his book Oikophobia: Our Western Self-Hatred, published by Cornell University Press, Beckeld traces…
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