The Tragic Meltdown of the American “Melting Pot”
America was once proudly known as the “melting pot.” Its inhabitants, both native and foreign, understood at least implicitly that the essence of being American was that one was free to shed certain of his characteristics, such as race, and live by his...Duke Freshman Lives Threatened for Defending Western Civilization
A series of letters to the editor at Duke University’s student newspaper has ignited a controversy resulting in hate mail, physical confrontations, and death threats directed at two students. Their crime? Freshmen Berin Szoka and Jay Strader expressed a...Bureaucracy Goes Global: The World Bank vs Capitalism
Some months back the World Bank issued a report titled “Global Economic Prospects 1998/1999”. The report’s foreword, written by Joseph Stiglitz, World Bank Chief Economist, is demonstration of how statists blame capitalism and free-markets for the...Slavery By Taxation
How can you spot Canadians? They have “Tax me!” stamped on their foreheads. Well, not true — but it might as well be true. According to Alexandra Lopez-Pacheco, Canadians are hit with “the highest income- and profit-tax rates in the...Hate Crime Laws Will Spawn Thought Police
We should insist on the one principle that forms the foundation for the protection of all rights; that the purpose of law is to punish criminals for initiating force against others-not for holding bad ideas.”