Richard Jordan

2 months ago | lawliberty.org | Michael Lucchese |Richard Jordan |David Schaefer |Edward Whelan

At least since Edmund Burke, the right has looked askance at mixing mathematics and politics. The French revolutionaries and philosophes, with their elegantly geometric counties and their 10-hour days and their Year Zeroes, were trying to squeeze the unruly contours of human nature into their godlessly oversimplified concepts. But out of the crooked timber of humanity, many conservatives insist, nothing precise was ever calculated.

Dec 22, 2023 | lawliberty.org | Richard Jordan |Graham McAleer |Colleen A. Sheehan |Aaron Rhodes

Creative destruction is the engine of capitalism—the dynamism whereby new products and new markets displace old ones, reordering society and lifting the rich and the poor a little farther up from the mud. A new Ford replaces a horse-drawn carriage, and suddenly travel is cheap and the streets are clean. Of course, it is rather a hard bargain for the blacksmith and the horse, one of whom may end up on the dole and the other in a bottle of Elmer’s. But that’s life. Or at least, that’s capitalism.