How about a mini-Williams autobiography? From exceedingly humble beginnings, I am now in the top one percent of income-earners. How did that come about? Did someone see me walking around North Philadelphia and say, "Williams, I'm going to make you well off."? That...
POLITICS
Attacking the Heart of Medicine
One vital fact was omitted in the news accounts about the success of Boris Yeltsin's recent heart surgery: the failure of socialized medicine. And this fact underscores the question of whether America's health-care policies are courting a similar failure. Competent...
Cherishing Property Rights
Making our value premises explicit and clear can help untangle contentious public policy issues, or at least let us know where people stand. Let's state my personal value premise. I cherish private property rights. "Okay," you say, "but what are private property...
Hating Bad Government
At the time of the Oklahoma City bombing, Bill Clinton chastised those Americans who loved their country but hated their government. That's a morally blind statement at best. After all would Clinton have said that to Germans who loved their country but hated the Nazi...
What to Do about Terrorism
Imagine the following situation: A roving homicidal maniac runs amok in your neighborhood, spraying bullets in all directions, killing your wife and wounding you. Frantically, you call the police. "This is terrible," they say. "We will take drastic new steps to...
Civility Toward Government
Retiring Senator William Cohen (R. Maine) was interviewed by Washington, D.C.'s WAMU-radio's talk show host Diane Rehm. He talked about the changing political climate both in Congress and the nation. Cohen lamented how American traditional skepticism toward Congress...
Elite Costs
It's amazing how we listen to people who've been dead wrong time after time. In 1975, the Environmental Fund took out full-page ads warning, "The World as we know it will likely be ruined by the year 2000 . . . World food production cannot keep pace with the galloping...
Nobel Prize-Winning Economist Milton Friedman on AFCM’s Goals
Let that sum be tax-exempt to the employee if deposited in a so called medisave account.
Individual Liberty and Civil Society
We continue to trade away the modem ideal of individual liberty for the ancient ideal of collective tyranny.
Modern Feminism’s War on Objectivity
Modern feminism’s new message–a message demeaning to all rational, conscientious women — is that the female gender needs to be granted the unearned.
George Fitzhugh and Socialism as a System of Slavery: Race and the Market Process
Why is it that an apologist for slavery like George Fitzhugh and a descendant of slaves like Jesse Jackson both abhor the market economy?
Western Civilization, Education, and the Racist Road to Barbarism
This is no longer an educational system. Its character has been completely transformed and it now clearly reveals itself to be what for many decades it has been in the process of becoming: namely, an agency working for the barbarization of youth.
Freedom’s Greatest Challenge: President Bush Continues Socialism at Home
Having forcefully hailed the demise of socialism abroad, the President’s message was that America’s greatness would be assured by more, or at least continued, socialism at home.
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