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Showing Up: The Quiet Strength That Shapes Who We Become
- Culture, Featured, Uncategorized, Western Civilization
- April 18, 2025
The Bolshevik uprising of October 1917 is usually thought to have resulted in the overthrow of the tsarist autocracy, which had ruled the Russian Empire since 1547. This belief has led to a certain idealization of the Russian Revolution. Despite the crimes that were later committed in the USSR in the name of communism, the
READ MOREIn a bold move last week, the National Assembly of Venezuela, which was deprived of its constitutional powers by the government-controlled Supreme Court in March 2017, appointed National Assembly’s leader Juan Guaidó as interim President of Venezuela. This triggered an immediate reaction on the streets where millions of Venezuelans gathered to demand the resignation of
READ MOREOn April 2, 1948, Ludwig Erhard, a little-known economist who had opposed Nazism, was appointed Director of the Economic Council of Bizonia, the territory resulting from the merger of the British and American occupied territories in post-WWII Germany. Few suspected that, only two months later, he would unleash the power of free markets and trigger
READ MOREThe Bitcoin revolution seemed unstoppable. Despite suffering multiple large corrections over the last years, Bitcoin’s price kept reaching new highs until almost surpassing the $20,000 threshold, something unimaginable when Bitcoin emerged in 2009. I remember watching in 2015 the documentary The Rise and Rise of Bitcoin, whose title may now look pretentious, but at the
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