 Machan's Musings - Communism Was No Bogeyman
by Tibor R. Machan
Communism was no bogeyman but a bona fide evil--as were slavery, or Nazis--and post-modernist blather will not manage to obscure this. (Read more...)
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HAFs, Sovereignty and the UN
by Robert Davison (Wolf)
A UN, a step toward a world collective or one world government, is a romantic notion particularly popular with egalitarians who, by some stretch of the imagination, transmogrify the greatest bastion of freedom in the world into a fascist dictatorship. Their faith in the synergy of collective action makes an independent... (Read more...)
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Machan's Musings: Ownership Society - True and False
by Tibor R. Machan
Bush's ownership society isn't about ownership but a quasi-royal grant of partial use. (Read more...)
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The Evil of Militant Islam
by Duncan Bayne
If ever there was doubt, the events of the past 48 hours have proved to the world how evil militant Islam is. A few weeks ago, the new leader of the Palestinian authority, Mahmoud Abbas, came to an historic ceasefire agreement with Israel. The Palestinians would cease killing Israelis forthwith, and the Israeli... (Read more...)
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Machan's Musings - Another Liberal Duplicity
by Tibor R. Machan
Modern liberals want it both ways--pragmatic and principled. (Read more...)
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Machan's Musings - Science and Sense
by Tibor R. Machan
Is it really true that "most of what we do every minute of every day is unconscious"? I made a survey of my own doings, and here is what I did just a few minutes ago. (Read more...)
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The New Face of Human Selfishness
by George W. Cordero
These people really do believe that life is ‘one giant hospital’, and that each of us must be our ‘brother's keeper.’ (Read more...)
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Is "Political Correctness" an Anti-Concept?
by Cameron Pritchard
A dissenting view on the widespread use of the term "PC" by Objectivists and libertarians. (Read more...)
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Machan's Musings - Who Regulates the Regulators?
by Tibor R. Machan
"Regulating people’s lives to prevent their doing harm to themselves is futile. It ought to be stopped. Let the law handle cases where someone violates another’s rights, period." (Read more...)
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Saturday
February 19, 2005 |
Santa, Soul, and Capitalism
by Alec Mouhibian
When I was a little child my morality was driven by fear, not of God, but of Santa. (Read more...)
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Machan's Musings - On Involvements with the State
by Tibor R. Machan
It is complicated to live and work in a society that widely and persistently violates the principles by which one ought to live, but so long as one is living by and promoting these principles as much as that is possible, one is not betraying them ... (Read more...)
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Machan's Musings - A Writer's Vicious Prejudice
by Tibor R. Machan
It is a vile prejudice, that is what it is, and I’ll just forgo reading such muck even if the author is otherwise a clever writer—as I am sure Mr. J. J. Freedman is ... (Read more...)
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Saturday
February 12, 2005 |
Who's Afraid of Ayn Rand?
by Alec Mouhibian
Back when the greatest female thinker in history was alive, the above question was quite revealing. It still is. (Read more...)
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Contra the FairTax
by Jim M Cox
One could believe that this entire movement is a grand conspiracy to waste the time and effort of political activists--activists who are now chasing after insignificant differences in the way taxes are collected and therefore ignoring the real issues of obscenely high federal taxes and obscenely high federal spending. (Read more...)
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Wednesday
February 9, 2005 |
The Robert Stadler Story: The Moral Fall of a Man Who Knew Better
by Edward W. Younkins
There are many villains in Ayn Rand’s masterpiece, Atlas Shrugged. However, her ultimate villain by far is Dr. Robert Stadler – a man who knew better. Robert Stadler is a villain and a man of stature who once possessed some excellent qualities. A man of great intelligence, Stadler early in the novel loved ability in ot... (Read more...)
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Capitalism: An Inevitable Conclusion
by Patrick Q. Scheper
Editor's note: I am posting this article notwithstanding the fact that in my view it is replete with serious philosophical errors. I have discussed these with the author, who disputes my view, but says he's open to whatever enlightenment discussion may yield. In that spirit, I shall personally say nothing further, post the article ... and merely watch. Treat this as an opportunity for premise-checking & benevolent argumentation. - Linz (Read more...)
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Machan's Musings - Newspeak Anyone?
by Tibor R. Machan
By trying to please everyone with his idea of liberty and freedom, Professor Fisher, most likely inadvertently, undermines the work that these concepts are supposed to do for human beings. (Read more...)
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Philosophy vs. Science
by Joseph Rowlands
If scientists try to divorce themselves from philosophy by ignoring it, they will fall victim to it. And worse, they probably won't know it. Philosophy is concerned with one's fundamental premises, and sets the stage for how you interpret the evidence of your senses. (Read more...)
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Social Security: Privatize or Bust!
by Andrew Bissell
Far from dignity, this is injustice, and I hope Social Security is abolished some day. But in the interim, I’ll take President Bush’s proposal, a bold move toward private accounts that could relieve the financial pressures on Social Security before they build to a full-scale crisis. (Read more...)
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The Keating Phenomenon
by Jeffrey Perren
Charm vs. Ability in the contemporary corporation, as exemplified by a popular business management philosophy. (Read more...)
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The Gun Rights Dilemma
by George W. Cordero
In the end, the direction America is heading in relation to gun ownership rights will not be determined by the success or failure of any single pro- or anti-gun lobby, but by the overall direction of the culture at large. (Read more...)
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Machan's Musings - A Dissident Dissents
by Tibor R. Machan
This lopsided moralizing betrays the practically obsessive anti-Americanism of too many people. Only Americans ever do things wrong—the rest need to be defended at all cost no matter how vicious they are. Balderdash. (Read more...)
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Why All The Hate?
by Alec Mouhibian
So we are “polarized” like never before. The question is: whose ultimate fault is it for making politics the team sport that it currently is? (Read more...)
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Why Democracies RULE
by James S Kermode
Should a larger group have the right to initiate force on a smaller group by virtue of their majority? Put more simply, do two people walking down the street have the right to assault and rob a single individual simply because they are a bigger group? The answer should be an emphatic no, unless you subscribe to the bromide of "Might is Right"—in which case you need not look far back in history to witness the horrific consequences of accepting such a premise. (Read more...)
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Wednesday
January 26, 2005 |
Machan's Musings - Johnny Carson, An American Natural
by Tibor R. Machan
Johnny Carson, who died recently, was perhaps the greatest comic craftsman in American popular entertainment. (Read more...)
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