Showing posts with label philosophy. Show all posts
Showing posts with label philosophy. Show all posts
Barry Farber: Obama's U.N. Insult To Every American
Our president seems ashamed to be American. A hen lays one egg and cackles an hour. A sturgeon lays 10,000 eggs and never lets out a peep. We call it “caviar.” President Obama laid at least 10,000 eggs in his U.N. speech last week, but caviar it was not. They were all rotten. At one point Obama reached probably the worst 60 seconds of his a ... MORE"The Police Force Is Watching The People"
by Sheldon Richman. Political philosophy — the libertarian philosophy included — can take you only so far. The libertarian philosophy provides grounds for condemning aggression, that is, the initiation of force, and along with some supplemental considerations, it identifies in the abstract what constitutes aggression, victimhood, and ... MORE
Evan Selinger: Why A Philosopher Teaches Privacy
Few things matter as much as philosophy. Next week, the new term begins and I’ll be teaching an undergraduate philosophy course called, “Technology, Privacy, and the Law.” The first order of business will be to explain why thinking critically about privacy—determining what it is, deciding when it should be protected, and pinpointing how it ... MOREElizabeth Nolan Brown: What Libertarianism Isn't
Obscured by cloudy thinking. At my first real journalism job, I started off covering personal finance. Not having the first clue about financial topics going in, I ended up asking patient sources a lot of questions like, "So tell me who should consider an REIT—and also what are they?" In my naivety this seemed very crazy to me, that people ... MORECal Thomas: America's DNA: 'The Federalist Papers'
Reclaiming the promise of America. There are many ways to lose freedom -- conquering armies, surrendering without a fight. Unfortunately, we are currently surrendering our freedom, not to a foreign power, but to our own government. The growth, reach, and cost of big government is happening before our eyes and eroding ... MORERobert Taylor: 5 Loners & Introverts Who Changed History
Mencken-Rand-Tesla-Mises-Solzhenitsyn. In a time dominated by flashes of celebrity, screaming talking heads on
TV, and cities that don’t sleep, introverts and loners have few places
to fit in. But as Laurie Helgoe argues in Psychology Today, those that are slightly uncomfortable with a noisy culture often have the biggest impact on society. ... MOREAndrew Napolitano: Beware A Beneficent Government
The president is an ardent progressive. This dastardly philosophy of government was brought into the American mainstream 100 years ago by a Republican, Theodore Roosevelt, and a Democrat, Woodrow Wilson. Its guiding principle is the belief that government — not individuals — is the chief engine of human progress. If that means government ... MORENatural Enemies: Progressivism Vs Pursuit Of Happiness
by Daren Jonescu. Self-interest is good -- not because it "raises the general standard of living" or "makes workers more productive." If it did neither of these things, it would still be good for a more fundamental reason, namely that it is the proper motivation of our nature as human beings. In short, self-interest is moral. Most public discussion ... MORE
Victor Volsky: Obeying The Dog Whistle
Focus on the young, not the mind-numbed zombies. In George Orwell's immortal dystopia Animal Farm, the ruling pigs distilled the revolutionary ideology for the stupider animals, such as the sheep, hens and ducks, to a simplistic but highly useful slogan, "Four legs good, two legs bad". Not only did it explain to the dumb masses the ... MOREJaana Woiceshyn: Envy Vs. Achievement
A battle of political philosophy. Envy is one of the most useless of feelings, both in our private and business lives. Yet many people experience it, at least from time to time. They envy their neighbor’s fancy car and exotic vacations, or wealth in general. They envy their friends’ educational achievements or the praise they receive ... MORE
Craig Biddle: What Is Objectivism?
The philosophy of reason, egoism and capitalism. It is widely believed today that our moral, cultural, and political
alternatives are limited either to the ideas of the secular,
relativistic left—or to those of the religious, absolutist right—or to
some compromised mixture of the two. In other words, one’s ideas are
supposedly either ... MORENYC Mayor To Close City Schools For Muslim Holidays
Political correctness run amok. New York Mayor Bill De Blasio will close city schools for two Muslim holidays and the Lunar New Year. The New York Daily News reported: New York City is moving to close school for two Muslim holidays and the Lunar New Year — but Mayor de Blasio isn’t so sure about the Hindu festival Diwali. But he said he’d move ... MOREVIDEO: Ayn Rand - Introducing Objectivism
Perhaps the most important philosophic video you will EVER see.
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