by Greg Stuessel | Nov 4, 2025 | The Deep Dive
Freedom and the Law by Bruno Leoni (from 1958 lectures) delivers a radical critique: the greatest threat to liberty in democracies isn’t tyrants but the explosive growth of legislation—statutes and regulations that drown society in unpredictable, arbitrary rules....
by Greg Stuessel | Nov 3, 2025 | The Deep Dive
Folkways by William Graham Sumner offers a profoundly naturalistic, almost biological account of society as an organic growth rather than a designed system. Sumner argues that the deepest roots of social order are the folkways—unconscious, inherited habits and customs...
by Greg Stuessel | Nov 2, 2025 | The Deep Dive
The Constitution of Liberty (1960) by F.A. Hayek offers a profound and systematic defense of individual freedom at the height of Cold War collectivism, arguing that true liberty is the absence of coercion—being free from the arbitrary will of others—and that only a...
by Greg Stuessel | Nov 1, 2025 | The Deep Dive
Summa Theologica is St. Thomas Aquinas’s monumental 13th-century synthesis of faith and reason, a towering intellectual architecture that harmonizes Aristotelian logic with Christian revelation to explore existence, knowledge, morality, and God’s relationship to the...
by Greg Stuessel | Oct 31, 2025 | The Deep Dive
Deflation and Liberty by Guido Hülsmann delivers a radical and deeply counterintuitive challenge to the modern economic consensus: deflation—falling prices caused by a contraction in the money supply—is not an economic catastrophe but a moral and economic cleansing...
by Greg Stuessel | Oct 30, 2025 | The Deep Dive
Economics in One Lesson (1946) by Henry Hazlitt remains the clearest, most devastating introduction to sound economics ever written. Hazlitt’s single, timeless lesson: The art of economics consists in looking not merely at the immediate effects of any act or policy,...
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