A Discussion of Oliver DeMille’s 1913 Chapter 13 “The Last Turning Point” As Oliver DeMille concludes his book, he titles his last chapter, “The Last Turning Point,” which I find bleak, though perhaps that was not the intention. I prefer the idea of the next turning point. He opened his…
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1913
A Lazy People Cannot Remain Free
A Discussion of Oliver DeMille’s 1913 Chapter 12 “Free Citizens Read the Fine Print” If you are familiar with the U.S. government system at all, you know a key idea of the Founders is to use checks and balances to divide power. The Senate contends with the House. Both together…
1913
We Are Blind to the True Value of Our Freedom
A Discussion of Oliver DeMille’s 1913 Chapter 11 “Essential Freedom” Oliver DeMille has detailed in his book how we took a turn away from freedom in 1913, and for that reason he focuses on the importance of freedom in this chapter. How can we regain our freedom if we do…
1913
We Need Good Readers and Thinkers
A Discussion of Oliver DeMille’s 1913 Chapter 9 “Solution #2: Voracious Readers and Independent Thinkers” DeMille called for “a small but committed few” to adopt his solutions to undo the damage to freedom by the 1913 turning points. (p. 89) While he called for an increase in entrepreneurship in the…
1913
We Only Need a Few to Restore Freedom
A Discussion of Oliver DeMille’s 1913 Chapter 7 “Wanted: A Small Group of Committed Citizens” Oliver DeMille began laying out his case for what it will take to undo the 1913 turning points away from freedom the last chapter. And as I went through his suggestions, I said I was worried because…
1913
We Need to be the People The Founders Expected
A Discussion of Oliver DeMille’s 1913 Chapter 6 “The Founding of Freedom in Modern Times” Oliver DeMille shifts his focus from the first five chapters where he laid out how we broke the founders’ design to an exploration of how we can fix things. He cites economist Murray Rothbard’s observation that you…
Bourgeois Equality
Honest? I do not think it means what you think it means
A Discussion of Bourgeois Equality Chapter 25 “The Word ‘Honest’ Shows the Changing Attitude Toward the Aristocracy and the Bourgeois” Dr. McCloskey is moving further back in time in this fourth part of the book to examine societal changes in 1700s England that will lead to the Great Enrichment. There…