The good name of “capitalism” has to be recaptured and restored, just as the good name and concept of “liberalism,” rightly understood, should be returned to the advocates of individual liberty and free enterprise.
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Fear of Aging
Q: I'm terribly afraid of aging. I'm only in my forties, but I think about it a lot. Is there anything you can do to help? A: You're aging -- we're all aging -- from the minute we're born. Ruminating about something over which you have no control only serves to raise...
Karl Marx’s Communist Theory of the “Injustice” of Capitalism
Nothing that Lenin or Stalin implemented in Soviet Russia or Mao in China, for example, was not called for or implied in Marx’s own writings and arguments.
How Stalin Used Hitler To Start World War II
It is estimated that as many as 64 million innocent men, women and children were killed in the Soviet Union in the name of building the socialist workers’ paradise.”
Fighting Over Transgender Bathrooms While America Burns
Bathrooms are among the most private of private property. We don’t need government determining the make-up or use of bathrooms.
A Superior Vision
The immorality associated with violation of the principle of self-ownership lies at the root of problems that could lead to our doom as a great nation.
Educational Socialism versus the Free Market for Education
What is needed is a radical change, and in my opinion, this means the denationalization, the full and complete privatization of schooling from kindergarten through graduate education.
Campus Lunacy, Part II
On the hypocrisy behind the student renaming craze.
Attacking The American Founding Fathers
The teaching establishment, at our public schools and colleges, is being used to undermine American values.
Does Acting Morally Cost You?
Whether you believe that acting morally costs or pays depends on your view of morality.
College Campus Lunacy
Nothing opens the closed minds of administrators better than the sounds of pocketbooks snapping shut.
James Madison: Father of the Constitution
Madison, who would become known as the “Father of the Constitution,” argued that in a pure democracy, “there is nothing to check the inducement to sacrifice the weaker party or an obnoxious individual.”
Individualism and Capitalism vs. Marxian Gender and Race Conflict: Trigger Words and College Safe Spaces
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.”
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.
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