The Case for Barbarism
Ordinary life improves when empire falls.
Paul A. Cantor is Clifton Waller Barrett Professor of English at the University of Virginia. His most recent book, co-edited with Stephen Cox, is Literature and the Economics of Liberty: Spontaneous Order in Culture (Ludwig von Mises Institute).
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