In our post-Soviet era, the Marxian framework and mind games have been transformed into issues concerning “gender” and “race” as well as “social class.”
CULTURE
Andrew Bernstein: Real Life Heroes
To choose a hero one has to look at people who benefit human life, their integrity, moral character and their commitment to and ideal.
A Philosopher’s Package Deal To Misrepresent Selfishness
To make selfishness, or self-interest, unpalatable and to promote altruism instead, the majority of philosophers misrepresent self-interest as a package-deal.
American Progressives are the Intellectual Grand Children of German Imperial Chancellor Bismarck
American “progressives” portray themselves as “forward-looking,” advocates of a higher and better freedom than the traditional American conception of liberty as freedom from government coercion and control. In fact, they are the intellectual great-grandchildren of the “reactionary” nineteenth century Imperial German “Iron Chancellor,” Otto von Bismarck.
Valentine’s Day Reflections
Valentine’s Day is a great way to celebrate a love you already have. But if it’s a way to make up for your lack of appreciating your love the rest of the year, you better do some thinking.
How Lithuania Helped Take Down The Soviet Union
The Lithuanians had been at the vanguard in the movement for freedom in the Soviet Union. They had elected a non-communist government in free elections, had declared their national independence from Soviet rule, and strongly affirmed their intention of reversing a half-century of socialist central planning through privatization and free market reforms.
Isn’t It Strange?
Isn’t it strange that after a bombing, everyone blames the bomber, but after a shooting, the problem is the gun?
Socialism as the Ideology of Death and Destruction
The attempt to establish a comprehensive socialist system in many parts of the world over the last one hundred years has been one of the cruelest and most brutal episodes in human history.
American Education Insanity
Today, expenditures per pupil in the United States exceed those of nearly every other country in the world.
Racism and the Oscars
The attempt to smear winners of this year’s nominations for Academy Awards with “racism” is actually racism itself.
Do Corporate Donors Threaten Academic Freedom?
The real untold story is that some college professors want to limit intellectual diversity, deny competition in the realm of ideas, and prohibit students from learning certain ideas.
Complicating the Obvious
Making simple things complicated.
The Anti-Capitalist Appeal of Altruism and The Pro-Capitalism Alternative
How is it possible that business students—some of them with significant business experience—have never heard of the moral code of rational egoism?
My New Year’s Wish: More Reason, Capitalism and Freedom
While the use of reason is the fundamental requirement of business success, freedom—protected by individual rights—is its social requirement.
2015: A Great Time To Be Alive
Where there is rule of law and individual freedom, humanity is better off.
Remembering 2015: The Year of The Big Lie
Lying, by itself, is obviously not new. What is new is the growing acceptance of lying as “no big deal” by smug sophisticates, so long as these are lies that advance their political causes
How Education “Diversity” Hustlers Hurt Blacks for Their Own Benefit
Black people cannot afford to have our youngsters turned into failures in order to support the agendas of diversity race hustlers and to lessen the guilt of white liberals.
Star Wars: The Force Awakens
Star Wars: The Force Awakens is a clever and pleasant diversion about having faith that the good is possible.
Squandered Resources on College Education
What goes on at many colleges adds to the argument that college for many is a waste of resources.
Thomas Sowell’s Christmas Gift Recommendations
Thought-provoking books on current events or on history.
Corporate Donations Increase Academic Freedom and Diversity in American Colleges
The real untold story is that some college professors want to limit intellectual diversity, deny competition in the realm of ideas, and prohibit students from learning certain ideas.
Socialism: An Ideology of Death and Destruction
The attempt to establish a comprehensive socialist system in many parts of the world over the last one hundred years has been one of the cruelest and most brutal episodes in human history.
America’s Colleges: Citadels of Intolerance
There is no compelling reason for either parents or donors to keep shelling out money to colleges and universities where intolerant professors and student activists impose their ideology on academic institutions
When The Supreme Court Stopped FDR’s Economic Fascism in America
On May 27, 1935, in a unanimous decision the nine members of the Supreme Court said there were constitutional limits beyond which the federal government could not go in claiming the right to regulate the economic affairs of the citizenry. It was a glorious day in American judicial history and is worth remembering.
Random Thoughts for November 2015
Random thoughts on the passing scene…
America’s Education Disaster
Walter Williams on the shocking decline in college academic standards.
The Ideas Behind The Islamist (Jihadist) Movement
Understanding the Jihadists.
How to Defend Freedom of Speech in the Face of Religious Attacks
Charlie Hebdo, the West and the Need to Ridicule Religion.
Walter Williams on The American Founding Fathers and Slavery
What distinguishes the West, namely Britain and the U.S., from other nations are the extraordinary measures they took to abolish slavery.
Dealing with Violent Students in Schools
It would be wonderful if we could develop ways to educate all students, despite whatever kinds of attitudes and behavior they had. But how many generations of other youngsters are we prepared to sacrifice to this hope that has never yet been fulfilled?
What Selfishness Requires: Lessons from Volkswagen
Had VW executive grasped the principle of honesty and chosen to follow it, the company’s current mess–ruined reputation, a potential recall of 11 million cars, the cost of fixing them, compensating customers, potential lawsuits, paying fines—could have been avoided.
Let’s Take Back Columbus Day
Western civilization did not originate slavery, racism, warfare, or disease–but with America as its exemplar, that civilization created the antidotes.
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