Stuart MacLean

Who owns you? I like to think I own myself, but politicians increasingly act like THEY own US. @TimothySandefur says: "They certainly think that they own us..." In our extended interview, he explains why that violates our fundamental right to pursue happiness.

Oxford theologian and historian @NigelBiggar joins @ARoberts_Andrew on Secrets of Statecraft to explore the personal and intellectual firestorm surrounding his work on empire, colonialism, and reparations. Biggar recounts how his "Ethics and Empire" project triggered a coordinated campaign to shut it down, how a major publisher canceled his book at the last minute, and how it ultimately went on to become a bestseller. Along the way, he challenges what he calls the "tyranny of imaginary guilt" shaping modern debates about Britain's past, questions the case for reparations, and reflects on the broader implications for academic freedom, free speech, and the politics of history in the West today. Tune in to the full conversation on X:

@mcsquared34 A zero sum Strawman!

You can watch the full episode here: youtu.be/xguam0TKMw8?si…

We’ve been sold a fake Adam Smith. In our latest Capitalisn’t, Glory Liu reveals that the guy who is most famous for the "invisble hand" was actually a theorist of power who warned against corporate capture. Full episode here: youtube.com/watch?v=AmmISO…

As @_JackSalmon_ makes clear here, it's crazy that peer-reviewed journals publish junk like this. open.substack.com/pub/unseenandu…

What better topic to discuss in the year of THE WEALTH OF NATIONS's 250th Anniversary? Enjoy! #WealthOfNations250 🧵2/2⬇️ thedispatch.com/podcast/remnan…

Thanks @JonahDispatch for having me on @JonahRemnant "to discuss Adam Smith, the Scottish Enlightenment, the social question, shiny shoe buckles, the East India Company, mercantilism, liberalism’s origins, Edmund Burke, and the new right’s rejection of free markets." 🧵1/2⬇️

What do you think about taxing billionaires at a higher percentage rate???

@ennui365 Yes! All fuelled by a too-big-to-fail, socialist government created, central bank money printing monopoly!

"If your kids went through puberty on a smartphone … they came out different than human beings before” warns @jonhaidt. We discuss that and much more in our full interview.

@CliffW08950229 No, it started in 1913 with the introduction of a Marxist central bank money-printing monopoly feeding government and its' cronies!!

“What’s that you’re reading?” “Karl Marx” “So you are a communist?” “Do I have to be a communist to read Karl Marx?” This scene is forever gold. The little boy completely destroys capitalism and the American political system.

"The little boy completely destroys "capitalism"? We've had a government created, too-big-to-fail, socialist central bank money-printing monopoly since 1913! It diminishes your dollars, distorts prices, enriches the entrenched and widens the gap between 'the haves and the have nots'. The little boy destroys centrally planned socialism in favor of freedom and free-market capitalism!!

@iamAtheistGirl Thank your 1913 Federal government, socialist, central bank, too-big-to-fail, money-printing monopoly

@ennui365 Try Wilsonomics!

In "The Princess Bride," Inigo Montoya says: "You keep using that word. I do not think it means what you think it means." He might've said this about Trump's (mis)use of socialism! Here's why: Trump's having government take stakes in companies IS socialist, and bad:

@MorEdge_Insight @Bluedad4 Boom/bust. Ends in hyperinflation.

Interesting economics history. And it wasn’t the Jooos… So many haters will hate this