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True Selfishness

…from Cafe Hayek a quote from “Oscar Wilde’s February 1891 Forthnightly Review essay, “The Soul of Man Under Socialism” – a selection that appears in the superb just-published reader, Individualism, edited by George H. Smith and Marilyn Moore:” Selfishness is not living as

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The Need for Intellectual Heat

A map of the world that does not include Utopia, said Oscar Wilde, is not worth glancing at. A noble sentiment, and a good thrust at the Gradgrinds and utilitarians.  Bear in mind that Utopia itself was a tyranny and

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Where Bad Ideas Go

Writing in Townhall.com, Herb London, When Satirists Dominate the Culture. Excerpt: Oscar Wilde once argued that “when bad ideas have nowhere to go they gravitate to American universities and become courses.” Surely there is truth in this claim, but only

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