Day: November 10, 2025

Over a thousand years of traditional economics built Europe (and the larger West) into a powerhouse, led to human flourishing, funded the arts and the sciences, and created the best civilization this planet has ever known.

Capitalism consumed it all in under two centuries.

Jimmy Carter was wrong on, well, pretty much everything, but he was right that most people would be better served by putting on a sweater (and drinking some tea) than by bumping the thermostat up five or six degrees.