Herland Report: Edward Gibbon analysis: The Singaporean diplomat and author, Kishore Mahbubani, has said that the greatest failing in modern Western thought is the lack of a basic common moral understanding. This great cultural divide will sap and divide the West in the years ahead. Mahbubani argues that as a result of the Western ethical decline, the West has …
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Herland Report: Big Government Special Interests destroys Democracy: In a time where the West is entering an age of socialist totalitarianism, the message of the famous economist Milton Friedman may be revisited. In 1993, he published a groundbreaking essay on “Why Government Is the Problem,” pointing out that the influence of special interests often ends up overruling the interests …
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Herland Report: The Norwegian government’ reported squandering of public funds has become somewhat of a a Facebook phenomenon thanks to the Norwegian commentator who calls himself Sløseriombudsmannen – which means “The Squander Ombudsman”. Wearing a Venetian mask, the man behind the social media account visits Cave of Apelles to discuss how artists are reportedly wasting taxpayers’ money through the …
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