Who today sets the world price of gold? It is not the United States and not Europe. The concept of the marginal purchaser becomes germane, here. It is a bit complicated, but it means the party who at a given time, at a given price, is always a buyer, but at a higher price is not. Some will want to debate that definition, but put simply we are talking about the prime, dominant buyer. And that, today, is the People’s Republic of China (PRC).

Apr 29, 2024

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The most horrendous threats to humanity have simply been too monstrously evil to be believed—at first.

Apr 4, 2023

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We “medicalize morality.” We “medicalize crime.” It seems we even medicalize war crimes and genocide… But having observed the medicalizing of what used to be called “evil,” or “wicked,” psychiatry does not know how to respond.

Apr 19, 2022

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When is a novel in the Romantic tradition “popular” and when is it “literary”?

2021年9月29日

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リサイクルボックスやリサイクルプラント、リサイクル材を使ったヨーグルトの容器がない現代の国家を、誰が想像できるだろう。

2019年12月3日（金

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I wonder how many of you have waited, over the decades—with growing scorn for our academic..

Oct 3, 2019

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Walter Donway’s romantic thriller O Human Child is an entertaining read with an end of summer theme. Jan and Victoria DeVries began what the

Sep 9, 2019

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As Democratic presidential candidates debate their competing promises to voters, without the slightest reference to the concept of property

Jul 10, 2019

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On Thursday, June 19, the subcommittee of the U.S. House of Representatives Judiciary Committee met to shape recommendations on payment of

2019年7月1日（木

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The fearful blaze ravaging Notre Dame Cathedral came under initial control, this evening. Parisians then gathered on Cité Island in the Sein

Apr 16, 2019

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It has taken more than two decades for Venezuela, once the wealthiest nation in Latin America, with a long tradition of independence and dem

Mar 3, 2019

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アイン・ランドにとって、議論とは人間特有の旗印であり、理性と説得の旗印であった。獣が強要するところ、人間は議論するのである。

2017年5月30日（金

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アイン・ランドは、このエッセイの中で、目的論の最も基本的な考え方と、その最も痛烈な個人的意味合いを掘り下げています。

2017年5月2日（木

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かつて、アイン・ランドの新しいエッセイが毎月出版され、多くの場合、ある作家について言及したり、熱心に推薦したりしていた時期があった。

2017年4月22日（金

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今週もベネズエラの野党勢力は、先週のラウンチに抗議するため、街頭で政府軍と格闘しています。

2017年4月10日（金

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I haven’t made up my mind about the debates regarding “nationalism,” conducted mostly in terms of epithets and denials, that have poisoned..

Mar 28, 2017

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Ayn Rand permitted herself to write of Romanticism with a terrible yearning redeemed only by her fighting spirit. In the introduction to...

Mar 12, 2017

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Reading about the Age of Faith, Age of Enlightenment, Age of Science—all eras in the history of the West—did you ever ask: what is our age..

Mar 1, 2017

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For partisans on both sides of the nomination (and hard-fought confirmation) of Betsy DeVos, 59, of Michigan, as secretary of education...

Feb 23, 2017

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I will celebrate Washington’s Birthday. That is still the official federal holiday—“President’s Day” and “Washington’s and Lincoln’s Day”..

Feb 20, 2017

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私が「NOPE（Not Our President Elite）」と呼ぶ人たちは、恐ろしいほど無知で偏屈で、明らかに劣ったアメリカは、「NOPE」ではないと信じています。

2017年2月16日（金

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今日、眼科の診察室に立ち寄りました。眼鏡が壊れていたのですが、まず受付で聞いたのは...。

2016年5月19日（木

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Measurement often is the crucial step in understanding—and gaining control—of a complex phenomenon....

Sep 21, 2012

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When government proposes to nationalize a major industry, it is a loudspeaker blaring the message that the country is abandoning the market

Jul 25, 2012

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アイン・ランドは、理性の基礎となる道具を与えた哲学者に敬意を表し、『アトラス・シュラッグ』の3つのセクションをアリストテレスの公理にちなんで名付けた。

2012年5月7日

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4月17日、バラック・オバマ大統領は、米国内の一部で1ガロン5ドルを超えるガソリン価格の高騰について演説しました。

2012年4月25日

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On March 8, the front page of the Wall Street Journal carried a weird story. It was weird because it involved what is arguably America’s...

Mar 9, 2012

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At the Baghdad International Airport today United States military forces lowered the American flag, and, in a ceremony with a long tradition

2011年12月21日

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In Barcelona's summer night..

2011年7月28日

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August 14, 2009 -- I am told that today's system of medical care in the United States lets too many people "fall through the cracks.".....

Apr 29, 2011

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What do we know about what makes creative genius possible? Can we say anything new about the awesome creative ability of an Aristotle...

2011年3月29日

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Among the virtues we promote at The New Individualist are the courage, independence, integrity, and vision of creative producers in all walk

2011年3月28日

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This is a collection of essays and reviews by an American sociologist who for some forty years has been slugging it out in academic journals

Aug 31, 2010

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A half-century ago, when the American medical care system was largely free and voluntary, and people regularly called it “the world’s finest

Aug 10, 2009

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I've reread Thorton Wilder's The Ides of March many times, always with the equivalent of a slight mental frown: Why do I like this book so

Mar 21, 1998

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Description: Matthew Josephson’s 1934 best-seller, The Robber Barons, with its damning portraits of great industrialists and Marxist analysi

Sep 4, 1992

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