Ethics and economics are two equally difficult subjects, and while the former needs discerning and expert reason, the latter cannot do without humane values.” ─ Wilhelm Röpke Economically ignorant moralism is as objectionable as morally callous economism. “We need a combination of supreme moral sensitivity and economic knowledge. Like Nicolás Gómez Dávila, whom Martin Mosebach said understood 'the Catholic Church, which he did not regard as simply one of several Christian confessions, but as the great collecting tank of all religions, as the heiress of all paganism, as the still living original religion.' Like Henri-Marie Cardinal de Lubac, who said in Catholicism: Christ and the Common Destiny of Man, 'To see in Catholicism one religion among others, one system among others, even if it be added that it is the only true religion, the only system that works, is to mistake its very nature, or at least to stop at the threshold. Like René Guénon, 'of the opinion that if a Western tradition should come to be reconstituted it would be bound to partake of an outward form that was religious in the strictest sense of the term, and that this form could not be but Christian, since, on the one hand, the other possible forms have been too long foreign to the Western mentality and, on the other hand, because it is in Christianity alone, or, to be more precise, in Catholicism, that is to be found as much as has survived of the traditional spirit of the West today.' Paleoconservative/ neo-reactionary/ integralist commentary on local, national, and global news, as well as Traditionalist School Perennial Philosophy, Austrian School Economics and Human Biodiversity, with musical interludes, begun in self-imposed exile in the Year MMIII in North Kyŏngsang Province and carried on today a stone's throw from the Erie Canal in Smugtown, Burned-Over District, Alleghania, where he lives with his tradwife and kids. , one including New York City and its boroughs, a second – dubbed the Montauk region – consisting of the downstate counties of Nassau, Suffolk, Rockland and Westchester, and the rest of the state named 'New Amsterdam.'' - Free New Amsterdam! 'A Republican state lawmaker proposes slicing New York into three autonomous regions in order to end the stranglehold that New York City liberals have on the rest of the Empire State. 'Only dead fish swim with the current.' - Viktor Orbán

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