The Rebel Media takes on Canada’s latest entry into the “Cool Ruler” sweepstakes, with an acquisitive dynamic duo that somehow has received the imprimatur of the “progressive.”
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Henry Hazlitt
On November 28, 1893, women voted in a national election for the first time . . . in New Zealand. On the same date in 1917, the Estonian Provincial Assembly declared itself the sovereign power of Estonia. November 28 also marks the independence of Mauritania from France (1960), and East Timor from Portugal.
In 1894, on November 28, economics journalist Henry Hazlitt was born. Hazlitt went on to write Economics in One Lesson, Time Will Run Back, and many other books, including several criticizing Keynesianism. He was the main proponent of the work of Ludwig von Mises and F. A. Hayek in America during the 1940s and 1950s.
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H. L. Mencken
“On the statute books of the great majority of American states there are laws so plainly opposed to all common-sense that they bear an air of almost pathetic humor.”
H. L. Mencken, The Philosophy of Friedrich Nietzsche (Third Edition, 1913), Chapter X, Government.
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Nobel Prizes
November 27, 1295, the first elected representatives from Lancashire were called to Westminster by King Edward I to attend what later became known as “The Model Parliament.”
On the same date in 1895, Alfred Nobel (pictured) signed his last will and testament, thereby establishing the Nobel Prizes.
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Benedictus de Spinoza
“Of all the things that are beyond my power, I value nothing more highly than to be allowed the honor of entering into bonds of friendship with people who sincerely love truth. For, of things beyond our power, I believe there is nothing in the world which we can love with tranquility except such men.”
Baruch Spinoza, Correspondence, 146, Letter xix.
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A Grimké Birthday
November 26, 1792, saw the birth of Sarah Moore Grimké, American abolitionist and feminist. She was the elder sister of the equally famed Angelina Emily Grimké Weld.
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Kurt Vonnegut
“Laughter and tears are both responses to frustration and exhaustion. I myself prefer to laugh, since there is less cleaning up to do afterward.”
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Baruch Spinoza
“If slavery, barbarism and desolation are to be called peace, men can have no worse misfortune. No doubt there are usually more and sharper quarrels between parents and children, than between masters and slaves; yet it advances not the art of household management to change a father’s right into a right of property, and count children but as slaves. Slavery, then, and not peace, is furthered by handing the whole authority to one man.”
Baruch Spinoza, Tractatus Politicus (1677; translated by A. H. Gosset, 1883), Ch. 6, Of Monarchy
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John Milton
“Unless wariness be used, as good almost kill a man as kill a good book; who kills a man kills a reasonable creature, God’s image; but he who destroys a good book, kills reason itself, kills the image of God, as it were in the eye.”
John Milton, Areopagitica, 1644
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Happy Birthday, Baruch!
November 24th marks the birthdays of philosopher Baruch Spinoza (1632) and three influential Americans: ragtime composer Scott Joplin (1868), self-help writer Dale Carnegie (1888), and conservative editor, writer, and television personality William F. Buckley Jr. (1925).