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freedom in the market place. And so long as there is any trace of respectful discussion of free markets in universities, Soros is going to spare no money in thwarting it. (Read more...) Discuss this Article (14 messages)
is Development as Freedom (Knopf, 1999). At first glance the title suggests that Sen shares the late Peter Bauer’s ideas who argued that global free market policies would best help the poor everywhere. But that isn't Sen's message at all. (Read more...) Discuss this Article (3 messages)
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unbridled authority to tinker with economic affairs. That is the point of insisting so vehemently that nothing exists that stands opposed to that authority, no notion of Adam Smith's natural liberty, John Locke's natural rights, and other classical liberal ideas that were at one time beginning to be used so as to pull the rug from under those who saw fit to interfere with other people's economic decisions and circumstances. (Read more...) Discuss this Article (10 messages)
involvement in our lives, the excuse is that the problem being tackled is a social or public type, not one of individuals. (Read more...) Discuss this Article (2 messages)
Congress the other evening, one of Mr. Obama's cheerleaders at The New York Times intoned gravely that even if one disapproves of a given office holder, one ought to show respect for the office. Well, not really, not any more. (Read more...) Discuss this Article (9 messages)
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voluntarily established like most sport teams are--those who see themselves as its leaders and charged with selecting the goals everyone must pursue, can quite easily slip into a mode of thinking that construes all opposition a form of betrayal. (Read more...) Discuss this Article (20 messages)
American system in Mr. Obama & Co.'s proposals? The one straightforward way is to pay attention to how the regime has accepted one of the most basic tenets of classical socialism, namely, that wealth is publicly owned, not by individuals who earned or otherwise honestly came by it. (Read more...) Discuss this Article (58 messages)
rearing or whatever, these folks explained it away by my origins, my having been born and raised in Budapest, Hungary, then a Soviet (communist) satellite. Everything I thought and said was deemed to have been caused by my background. (Read more...) Discuss this Article (10 messages)
of what I called in one of my early books, The Pseudo-Science of B. F. Skinner (1973), the blow up fallacy. It involves taking a picture--i. e., considering--some small portion of the world or life and seeing it quite clearly but then making the leap of applying it to everything. (Read more...) Discuss this Article (0 messages)
precisely what makes them so human--however they turn out is to a large measure their own doing, following their beliefs and choices. (Read more...) Discuss this Article (8 messages)
Curve. Up to a certain point people will tolerate being taxed and then, after that point, they won't take it any longer. So governments do well if they identify that point (not an easy thing because our tolerance level is not the same). (Read more...) Discuss this Article (5 messages)
about serving the public--as distinct from private vendors--is this element of constant competition, combined with the fact that bureaucrats gain their income from taxes which can often be raised with impunity by those who hire them. (Read more...) Discuss this Article (19 messages)
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new president. He should back off already. (Read more...) Discuss this Article (2 messages)
pro bono work. And this mostly consists of broadcasting programs misleadingly labeled "public affairs." (I say this because none of these programs is actually about what matters to everyone, to the public, but only to one or another special interest group and, mostly to bureaucrats and their groupies.) (Read more...) Discuss this Article (26 messages)
risks taking a false step. First, few people know why others champion a position on some controversial topic, although sometimes one can guess fairly well. Still, it is strictly speaking bad form to raise the issue of motives. (Read more...) Discuss this Article (32 messages)
health care guaranteed? Of course, there are other services that are treated as if people had a basic right to them, such as primary and secondary education. But then there are many services people want, even need, that few would regard as due people as a guarantee. (Read more...) Discuss this Article (10 messages)
better or for worse, and refuses to permit the imposition of plans on them even by the most wise and smart among us. (Read more...) Discuss this Article (41 messages)
identified as, you should have guessed it, freedom of thought! (Read more...) Discuss this Article (3 messages) |
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