Western Flicks and the Academy Awards: The Values We Live and Die By
As long as there are movies, there will be Westerns. A love letter to a time in America when heroes loomed large and men (and women) lived..
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How to Tell the Statists to Stick It
How to Tell the Statists to Stick It Forbes has a interesting suggestion for those of you tired of monstrously big government:..
The Wrong Side of History, The Right Side of Reality
There is an old saying: “History is written by the winners.” That is not always necessarily so. History is often written by the well..
The Goal is Freedom: Individualist Collectivism
Is the free market an individualist or collectivist social arrangement? Don’t answer too quickly. It’s a trick question. Most people..
The Goal is Freedom: The Virtues of Competition
When I discussed reasons to esteem the free market last week, I conspicuously left out any reference to competition. That might have seemed..
What’s the problem with the TSA’s pat-downs?
Michelle Dunaj, the terminally ill passenger who claims TSA agents in Seattle-Tacoma International Airport botched her pat-down, drew a..
Individualism, Collectivism, and Other Murky Labels
Imagine the following person. He believes all individuals should be free to do anything that’s peaceful and therefore favors private..
The Inequality Two-step
Inequality is the polite drawing-room version of the Exploitation narrative. The Exploitation narrative, so ably set up by Marx, says..
Let’s reduce government’s redistribution of income and wealth. Charity begins at home!
I have always deeply believed in the redistribution of wealth. The key element in my kind of redistribution is that it should be voluntary...
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