 Barbaric Conduct in London
by Tibor R. Machan
The apparent murderer in London declared on a video that "The only reasons we killed this man ... is because Muslims are dying daily," he said in video aired by CNN affiliate ITN. (Read more...)
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Revisiting Our Basic Rights
by Tibor R. Machan
Professor Lynn Hunt’s recently published book on rights, titled Inventing Human Rights, is filled with a great deal of very useful important information about the emergence of the idea of basic human, individual rights, but it also perpetuates, perhaps entirely unconsciously, a very serious and hazardous error. (Read more...)
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Self-Referential Paternalist Foibles
by Tibor R. Machan
At the foundation of this paternalism lies the belief that many of us ordinary blokes need some pushing around so we conduct ourselves properly, sensibly, prudently, wisely--in short, virtuously. Never mind that virtuous conduct needs to be freely chosen for it to amount to something praiseworthy. (Read more...)
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Obama’s Macabre Politics
by Tibor R. Machan
If you check the president’s inauguration speech accepting his election to a second term as president of the country, there is in it evidence of a decisive tone of postmodernist political thinking, the road to confusing the public. (Read more...)
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Wednesday
January 23, 2013 |
Sobbing for Dictators!
by Tibor R. Machan
As the BBC reported, the late North Korean dictator Kim Jong-il was provided with mass marches throughout the country in mourning of his recent death. As the thousands were shown on TV, they did what is routine on such occasions in countries with absolute rulers. The people gyrate and undulate and holler, supposedly expressing their earnest grief, although it is remarkable that no tears were in evidence from any participants. (Read more...)
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Wednesday
January 23, 2013 |
TSA & a Free Country: Are the Compatible?
by Tibor R. Machan
Why does the TSA annoy so many of us? Not having the resources to do a survey, I resort here to what might be called educated speculation. I suspect it is because free men and women consider it invasive for government agents to order them around--pat them down, make them endure electronic surveillance, being ordered around by TSA agents, etc.--unless they give their permission. (Read more...)
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Wednesday
December 26, 2012 |
The Plowman : A Parable
by Kyle Jacob Biodrowski
A history of the American producer. (Read more...)
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Machan's Archives: Ethics and Gouging
by Tibor R. Machan
During most emergencies there are those who could certainly use quite a
bit of help and it is on such occasions that complaints about gouging
surface most vociferously. (Read more...)
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The Puppy Parable
by Kyle Jacob Biodrowski
The first streaks of light raced across the early morning sky. The empty streets, however, were still covered in a murky haze.
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Saturday
September 29, 2012 |
Frankness About Wealth Redistribution
by Tibor R. Machan
Government’s redistribution of the citizens’ wealth is unavoidable unless taxation is abolished. Even the most minimal of taxation brings about such redistribution. (Read more...)
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Another Plea For More Statism!
by Tibor R. Machan
I recently read Zanie Smith’s essay, “North West London Blues,” in The New York Review of Books, and found it an insulting, devious, and roundabout way of trying to justify statism (Read more...)
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The story of Adam and Steve (a fable).
by Ed Thompson
A fable about the free market. (Read more...)
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Anticipated the Reasoning by the Court
by Tibor R. Machan
So here is a wonderful opportunity for the current crop of Republicans, with Mitt Romney leading them in the next few months, to mount a bona fide, no holds barred revolution that will complete the first one. Ron Paul might have been counted upon to lead it but one may doubt that Mitt Romney is going to go there. Too many leaders of and people within the Republican Party remain statists who believe that the government rules the people instead of serving them. (Read more...)
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The Face of Egalitarianism
by Tibor R. Machan
A few weeks ago they ran the famous Oxford v. Cambridge rowing race on the Thames but a fanatical egalitarian, Mr. Trenton Oldfield from Australia, ruined it for everyone by jumping in the river and blocking the race in the name of resisting the elitism of rowing! He was dubbed in the UK the “anarchist swimmer” and has mounted some other guerrilla strikes to make his point. Among other things he is urging cabbies to take well to do passengers on long detours and cleaners not to place toilet paper where they are expected to serve rich folks. (Read more...)
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Machan’s Archives: In Defense of the Right to Assisted Suicide
by Tibor R. Machan
Should aiding suicide be illegal? That is the question which faces legislators who are being urged to repeal statutes which state, basically, “Every person who deliberately aids, or advises, or encourages another to commit suicide is guilty of a felony.” I will argue, ever so briefly, that not all cases should aiding suicide be illegal, although the severest onus of proof of justification would be required in such cases.
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Nation of Islam' and Denial of Its Killing Fields!
by Iqbal Latif
On reasons 'Why Islamic countries stay at the bottom of the ladder of UNDP's Human Development Index. It’s appalling that with all of their oil wealth, two-thirds of the world’s poorest people live in Muslim countries? Why, in the last 20 years, have over million people died in conflicts involving intra Muslim wars?'
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Race Is NOT a Social Construct
by Libertarian Realist
Existence is objective, not social; perceived, not constructed. (Read more...)
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Getting Serious About Recovery
by Tibor R. Machan
This is how economic recovery can be encouraged by all levels of governments in the U. S.: (Read more...)
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Deciphering Paul Krugman
by Tibor R. Machan
From very early on in the history of human thought it was accepted that logic is the first device to be used in aiming for understanding and in offering criticism—all of Plato’s Socratic dialogues adhere to this. Students at colleges and universities are constantly chided for being inconsistent. Everyone is, in fact. Except by serious pragmatists, at least the radical variety of them. And the reason isn’t very complicated to grasp.
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Who is Near Socialism Now?
by Tibor R. Machan
But there is a good test for telling if an American statist is in fact nearly a socialist, even a socialist of the Marxist variety. This is to see if he or she holds that people’s labor belongs to the society or to them--is one’s labor private or public property? (Read more...)
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Some Serious Flaws of Egalitarianism
by Tibor R. Machan
These flaws of egalitarianism ought to be evident to all, especially to those who are familiar with George Orwell’s little story, Animal Farm, or Kurt Vonnegut’s novella, Harrison Bergeron, both of which are excellent depictions of the dystopian nature of any egalitarian political-economic system. But if that isn’t enough or has escaped the attention of egalitarianism’s champions, there are the zillions of examples from real life.
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My journey toward Ayn Rand and Objectivism
by Ed Thompson
A somewhat-unconventional journey. (Read more...)
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Why Evidence is Not Enough
by Michael E. Marotta
Confirmation bias and the attribution fallacy suggest what this scientific study verified: people make up their minds first, and choose their experts later. (Read more...)
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Pitfalls of Shared Responsibility
by Tibor R. Machan
There is a different ancient principle that President Obama ought to consider before he imposes responsibilities on those who didn’t consent to assuming them. It is “the tragedy of the commons.” (Read more...)
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The Sleep of Reason
by Tibor R. Machan
In basic reasoning courses one learns that certain ways of thinking are fallacious, others are sound. Sadly, most students don’t actually remember much of what they learn here because these courses are taught too early in their college years, just at the time they are still celebrating no longer being in high school. (Read more...)
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