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G. Stolyarov II is a science fiction novelist, independent philosophical essayist, poet, amateur mathematician, composer, contributor to Enter Stage Right, Le Quebecois Libre, Rebirth of Reason, and the Ludwig von Mises Institute, Senior Writer for The Liberal

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Arts & Humanities > Literary Themes & Ideas The nature and purpose of literary analysis: 1 of 9
For the millennia during which literature has existed, scholars, intellectuals, and lay people have unceasingly engaged in the act of analyzing it. Whatever the variety of analytical approaches to literature might be, literary analysis is in itself a universal necessity when approaching a text, and cannot be escaped on some l... More..
Politics, News & Issues > Drug Laws & Prevention The harms of drugs versus the harms of the 'War on Drugs': 10 of 44
I personally find all currently illegal drugs loathsome; they stunt the mind, inhibit the body, and curtail productivity. I would never consume such substances myself, and I would advise others against doing so. Yet, compared to the adverse effects of their illegalization, the harm of drugs themselves is small indeed. Drug-ta... More..
Politics, News & Issues > US Economy The necessity of road privatization: 1 of 3
I live on the North Shore of Chicago, one of the most affluent areas in the entire United States with some of the poorest roads I had seen anywhere in the country. Several times a week I must follow a convoluted labyrinth, bordered by orange cones and wooden signs that constantly jut out into my path, as if asking to be bump... More..
Hobbies & Games > Video Game Tips & Tricks Finding the right RPG for you: 13 of 36
The characteristics which distinguish a good role-playing game (RPG) resemble in many ways those which one will find in a good book. The overarching story of the RPG needs to draw in the player via an intricate plot, an interesting conflict, a steady progression of events, well-developed characters, a complex and detailed bac... More..
Arts & Humanities > 19th Century US History Abraham Lincoln's famous quotes: 5 of 13
"Property is the fruit of labor...property is desirable...is a positive good in the world. That some should be rich shows that others may become rich, and hence is just encouragement to industry and enterprise. Let not him who is houseless pull down the house of another; but let him labor diligently and build one for himself,... More..
Creative Writing > Poetry Poetry: Exile: 12 of 29
Her eyes were too bright, too sparkling with vigor.Her mouth was too firm, words too filled with rigor.Too clearly her voice rang, too proudly she paced,And slothful incompetents' cloakings displaced,Destroying excuse after cowering pleaOn why they could not be as splendid as she.Too keen were her insights for folly to stand,... More..
Arts & Humanities > Political Philosophy Arguments against the Labor Theory of Value: 1 of 2
I shall refute here the proposition that "the economic value of all goods and services is derived from the cost of their production and ultimately from the labor expended on their creationbe it measured in terms of the time, effort, or disutility required to produce the goods or services in questionand the labor expended on t... More..
Business > Entrepreneurial Spirit The creative role of the entrepreneur in economic theory: 1 of 2
Professor Israel Kirzner's theory of entrepreneurship uses the methods of Austrian Economics to explain the function of the man who perceives and pursues economic opportunities in the face of uncertainty. The entrepreneur, in seeking his own profit, is essential to correcting mistakes in the structure of prices and remedying ... More..
Arts & Humanities > Political Philosophy The concept of consumer sovereignty in economic theory: 1 of 1
The great Austrian economist Ludwig von Mises formulated the idea of "consumer sovereignty," using a term originally coined by William Hutt in a critique of Keynesianism, to describe the role of consumers and producers in the market process. Mises's analogy has its limits, as his student Murray Rothbard would recognize, but i... More..
Arts & Humanities > Political Philosophy Austrian economics and marginal utility: 1 of 1
To understand a set of universal truths concerning diverse individuals' valuations of economic goods and how these valuations are reflected in practice, one needs to turn to the Austrian School of Economics and its analysis of marginal utility. The Austrian School considers utility from the viewpoint of the individual economi... More..