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Hey, I'm C Harwick, a web designer, musician, and blogger living in Raleigh, where I work at a think tank.
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When the last bastions of the old media go under, it will not be with a bang but a whimper. It will be a long slide, not a cataclysmic collapse. And for this we have piracy to thank. This is the saving grace of piracy, that it adjusts our economy to changes made necessary by [...]
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In Christian theology there is a recurring tension between “Because you have rejected knowledge, I reject you” (Hosea 4:6) and “Avoid foolish controversies, genealogies, dissensions, and quarrels about the law, for they are unprofitable and worthless” (Titus 3:15). On the one hand, we are exhorted not only to know God, but to know about God [...]
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20. Vintersorg – Jordpuls Avant-Garde/Folk Black Metal I wouldn’t ordinarily include it, but it’s the first listenable Vintersorg album in over a decade. 19. Mogwai – Hardcore Will Never Die But You Will Post-rock Slightly more boring than their last few albums. 18. Subway To Sally – Schwarz In Schwarz Medieval/Folk Metal Nothing we haven’t [...]
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Disclaimer: So far as I know Hayek has never actually coerced a kitten. The idea of coercion is central to many strands of Libertarian thought, held up as the summum malum and opposed to voluntarism. But to actually define coercion precisely enough to build a political theory on it is a bit trickier. In general, [...]
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Last month, I asserted that the Bible speaks nothing about how society should be governed, but has political implications only so far as it binds the conscience of the voter. Here, however, let us move beyond particular issues to whole ideologies. Scripture says nothing about Capitalism or Socialism. But can a Christian in good conscience [...]
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