Let’s start with your views concerning government. Most of you believe that government should not jail consenting adults for engaging, in...
Editor's note: The following article is adapted from "Professional Heroes," a talk given by Gordon Stubley at the 1997 Atlas Society Summer
Thirty years ago, Steve Mariotti decided to take a jog by the river. He was about a mile into his run, close to where his high-rise Wall....
I have long argued that the morally twisted beliefs of many environmentalists imply that humans are pollution and that the Earth would be...
December 17, 2003 -- Saddam Hussein now will stand trial for his crimes. The lessons of the trial could be as critical as Saddam’s capture. All trials reflect fundamental underlying principles. In Western societies they seek to settle disputes or to right wrongs, with advocates for the parties involved and impartial judges and jurors who make their decisions based on objective laws. The goal is justice. In dictatorships, “show trials” keep the physical trappings of a civilized system – a courtroom, a bench, a judge – but their goals are to terrorize the victim on trial and the population through the arbitrary use of power and to degrade them by forcing them to pretend that the proceedings have legitimacy.
April 10, 2004 -- The Greeks had a myth about the great goddess Demeter who brought bountiful harvests. Her daughter Persephone was abducted by Hades, god of the underworld, and taken to the realm of the dead. As Demeter despaired, the crops failed and the Earth died. Hades finally agreed to let Persephone return to the land of the living for part of the year and each year her return brought the spring, a time of rebirth and renewal.
October 3, 2003 -- A group of Southern Methodist University students recently taught a lesson in practical philosophy better than those they are likely to receive in their classes, and the recipients of the lesson are hopping mad. To demonstrate the moral absurdity of the kind of affirmative action principles practiced by many colleges and universities, the SMU students applied the principle to a bake sale. The price of a cookie for a white male was 1 dollar; for a female, 75 cents; for a Hispanic, 50 cents; and for a black, 25 cents.
May 9, 2006 -- What do Britain's astronomer royal Martin Rees and Australian environmentalist David Leary of MacquarieUniversity have in common? Both are concerned that someone might be making profits on outer and inner space frontiers where there are no government regulators or bureaucrats to be found.
October 27, 2004 -- John Kerry's demagogy might serve a purpose other than driving voters to George Bush. In a debate Kerry raised the specter that a second Bush administration might re-institute the military draft. Bush answered clearly and in no uncertain terms that this was not going to happen. Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld has echoed this pronouncement, adding that the military doesn't need a draft and that a volunteer army is more effective.
March 8, 2006 -- The moral premises shared by any group tells you whether it's a society seeking mutual benefits for members based on respect and voluntary exchanges or a criminal gang. The message from the 200 politicians from 16 countries in the Arab Inter-Parliamentary Union -- a message that screams like Islamic mobs protesting the Danish cartoons of Mohammad -- is that their organization, the governments they represent and the cultures on which they are based still remain beyond the bounds of civilized principles. Those politicians have called on “Arab and Muslim governments to spare no effort to pressure the UN to issue a resolution banning the slandering of religions.” They want legal action against those who violate such a ban.
George Washington unfortunately has become a cliché. For an older generation, he was too often treated as such a mythic figure that it was..
July 4, 2008 -- July 4, the anniversary of the birth of the United States, is a good time to remember the vision of this country. But to
Presidential inauguration addresses are usually forgotten since it’s what the chief executive does after he’s sworn in that is of most
It’s no secret that Michael Moore hates economic liberty; the theme of his movie Capitalism: A Love Story is that the free market is evil...
President Obama stumbled onto the analogy which perfectly points out the dangers of the very government-run health care system that he...
Want an eye-opening perspective on those in Congress and the Obama administration who want the government to control America’s health care..
Nobel Prize winning economist Milton Friedman passed away on November 16, 2006 at the age of 94. Friedman was one of the most influential...
November 16, 2006 -- Nobel Prize winning economist Milton Friedman passed away on November 16, 2006 at the age of 94. Friedman was one of
The morally ugly nature of actual altruism was on display when Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius recently declared that
January 30, 2004 -- After experiencing the visual splendor of the Grand Canyon, campers, hikers and tourists will now encounter intellectual squalor in, of all places, the souvenir shops at the Canyon rim. Those stores now carry a Biblical creationist book entitled “Grand Canyon: A Different View,” which maintains that this great natural wonder was gouged out by Noah’s flood a few thousand years ago, contrary to all scientific evidence that shows it was formed millions of years ago by the erosive force of the Colorado River.
Let’s start with your views concerning government. Most of you believe that government should not jail consenting adults for engaging, in...
Editor's note: The following article is adapted from "Professional Heroes," a talk given by Gordon Stubley at the 1997 Atlas Society Summer
Thirty years ago, Steve Mariotti decided to take a jog by the river. He was about a mile into his run, close to where his high-rise Wall....
I have long argued that the morally twisted beliefs of many environmentalists imply that humans are pollution and that the Earth would be...
December 17, 2003 -- Saddam Hussein now will stand trial for his crimes. The lessons of the trial could be as critical as Saddam’s capture. All trials reflect fundamental underlying principles. In Western societies they seek to settle disputes or to right wrongs, with advocates for the parties involved and impartial judges and jurors who make their decisions based on objective laws. The goal is justice. In dictatorships, “show trials” keep the physical trappings of a civilized system – a courtroom, a bench, a judge – but their goals are to terrorize the victim on trial and the population through the arbitrary use of power and to degrade them by forcing them to pretend that the proceedings have legitimacy.
April 10, 2004 -- The Greeks had a myth about the great goddess Demeter who brought bountiful harvests. Her daughter Persephone was abducted by Hades, god of the underworld, and taken to the realm of the dead. As Demeter despaired, the crops failed and the Earth died. Hades finally agreed to let Persephone return to the land of the living for part of the year and each year her return brought the spring, a time of rebirth and renewal.
October 3, 2003 -- A group of Southern Methodist University students recently taught a lesson in practical philosophy better than those they are likely to receive in their classes, and the recipients of the lesson are hopping mad. To demonstrate the moral absurdity of the kind of affirmative action principles practiced by many colleges and universities, the SMU students applied the principle to a bake sale. The price of a cookie for a white male was 1 dollar; for a female, 75 cents; for a Hispanic, 50 cents; and for a black, 25 cents.
May 9, 2006 -- What do Britain's astronomer royal Martin Rees and Australian environmentalist David Leary of MacquarieUniversity have in common? Both are concerned that someone might be making profits on outer and inner space frontiers where there are no government regulators or bureaucrats to be found.
October 27, 2004 -- John Kerry's demagogy might serve a purpose other than driving voters to George Bush. In a debate Kerry raised the specter that a second Bush administration might re-institute the military draft. Bush answered clearly and in no uncertain terms that this was not going to happen. Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld has echoed this pronouncement, adding that the military doesn't need a draft and that a volunteer army is more effective.
March 8, 2006 -- The moral premises shared by any group tells you whether it's a society seeking mutual benefits for members based on respect and voluntary exchanges or a criminal gang. The message from the 200 politicians from 16 countries in the Arab Inter-Parliamentary Union -- a message that screams like Islamic mobs protesting the Danish cartoons of Mohammad -- is that their organization, the governments they represent and the cultures on which they are based still remain beyond the bounds of civilized principles. Those politicians have called on “Arab and Muslim governments to spare no effort to pressure the UN to issue a resolution banning the slandering of religions.” They want legal action against those who violate such a ban.
George Washington unfortunately has become a cliché. For an older generation, he was too often treated as such a mythic figure that it was..
July 4, 2008 -- July 4, the anniversary of the birth of the United States, is a good time to remember the vision of this country. But to
Presidential inauguration addresses are usually forgotten since it’s what the chief executive does after he’s sworn in that is of most
It’s no secret that Michael Moore hates economic liberty; the theme of his movie Capitalism: A Love Story is that the free market is evil...
President Obama stumbled onto the analogy which perfectly points out the dangers of the very government-run health care system that he...
Want an eye-opening perspective on those in Congress and the Obama administration who want the government to control America’s health care..
Nobel Prize winning economist Milton Friedman passed away on November 16, 2006 at the age of 94. Friedman was one of the most influential...
November 16, 2006 -- Nobel Prize winning economist Milton Friedman passed away on November 16, 2006 at the age of 94. Friedman was one of
The morally ugly nature of actual altruism was on display when Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius recently declared that
January 30, 2004 -- After experiencing the visual splendor of the Grand Canyon, campers, hikers and tourists will now encounter intellectual squalor in, of all places, the souvenir shops at the Canyon rim. Those stores now carry a Biblical creationist book entitled “Grand Canyon: A Different View,” which maintains that this great natural wonder was gouged out by Noah’s flood a few thousand years ago, contrary to all scientific evidence that shows it was formed millions of years ago by the erosive force of the Colorado River.