Jon Hersey

Philosophy—Music—Reason—Freedom

[Chris Freiman @cafreiman]

A quick argument against democratic socialism:

If worker-owned firms are more efficient, they needn’t be mandated

If worker-owned firms are less efficient, they shouldn’t be mandated

[StatesmenAcademy @Statesmen1776]

George Washington, Benjamin Franklin, John Adams, Thomas Jefferson—they’d all be ashamed of today’s political leaders. Yes, the Founders were flawed, but they weren’t fraudulent. If we want the return of genuine statesmen, we must demand better.

[Jon Hersey @RevivingReason]

@HannahDCox @nickgillespie and @WalshFreedom gave me a licking for making this point @sfliberty LibertyCon a few years ago. https://t.co/m7X0txk6Eb

[Jon Hersey @RevivingReason]

@sfliberty “What is the integrity of those who outdo their enemies in smearing, misrepresenting, spitting at, and apologizing for their own ideal? . . . These are the ‘conservatives’—or most of their intellectual spokesmen.” —Ayn Rand

[Students For Liberty @sfliberty]

Mark Cuban credits "The Fountainhead" as a major influence on his success.

So do countless other entrepreneurs. Here's why this 80-year-old novel is still creating business legends 🧵

[Foundation for Economic Education @feeonline]

📹 How do tariffs increase the cost of imported goods? What are their impacts on consumers?

@maggiemoda on a new FEExplains video.

[Jon Hersey @RevivingReason]

@JimDMiller @ESYudkowsky LOL, you joke, but every argument for determinism reduces to this. Someone tell Sam Harris.

[Mark Pellegrino @MarkRPellegrino]

Individualism isn’t blue hair, piercings and tattoos. It’s an active and independent minded person who understands that they and every other person are ends unto themselves.

[Jon Hersey @RevivingReason]

@emmysteuer Actively averse, or just complacent?

[Geiger Capital @Geiger_Capital]

Jamie Dimon is not fucking around today…

“China is an adversary, but what I really worry about is the enemy within. Can we get our own act together, our own values and capabilities. This time is different… we have to get our act together and quickly.”

[Jon Hersey @RevivingReason]

@HannahDCox Yeah, that’s basically the worst thing to hear for an action-oriented doer.

[Jon Hersey @RevivingReason]

@HannahFrankman I think (hope) many realize before adulthood.

[Maggie @maggiemoda]

This hidden law is making American healthcare more expensive.

[Jon Hersey @RevivingReason]

@tonymmorley @JeffBezos @washingtonpost Go Tony!

[Jon Hersey @RevivingReason]

It's like when I go to wrap a gift, I lose even the most basic motor skills. Is there an entry for this in the DSM?

[Jon Hersey @RevivingReason]

and sooner or later the chief of some prevailing faction, more able or more fortunate than his competitors, turns this disposition to the purposes of his own elevation on the ruins of public liberty.

[Jon Hersey @RevivingReason]

George Washington on partisanship in his Farewell Address: This spirit, unfortunately, is inseparable from our nature, having its root in the strongest passions of the human mind. It exists under different shapes in all governments, more or less stifled, controlled, or repressed;

[Jon Hersey @RevivingReason]

the most horrid enormities, is itself a frightful despotism. But this leads at length to a more formal and permanent despotism. The disorders and miseries which result gradually incline the minds of men to seek security and repose in the absolute power of an individual;