posted on site) Francis is a firm statist. His analysis is always valuable and i

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Francis is a firm statist. His analysis is always valuable and insightful. However, his conclusions rarely follow from his premises. At least in the circles I travel in, we recommend reading his works (particularly Trust and Orders, but ignoring his conclusions which are merely projections.

I can understand why he consistently falls into extending a current trajectory: he has too little understanding of both economics and why the west rose twice, so rapidly, once freed from ignorance.

I kind of suspect he would not agree with me, (or Hayek) that the late 19th through early 21st centuries represented yet another age of mysticism – one of pseudoscientific mysticism this time around. But I am pretty confident in a debate I would win that argument.

But then, he is part of the Cathedral’s reality-distortion-field, and he has heavily invested in his priors.

Curt Doolittle

The Propertarian Institute

Kiev Ukraine.