“…In its main features the Declaration of Independence is a great spiritual document. It is a declaration not of material but of spiritual conceptions. Equality, liberty, popular sovereignty, the rights of man — these are not elements which we can …
Category: Rule of Law
Watch “Who Killed the Liberal Arts?” on YouTube
Narcissism. Obsession with Victimhood. Identity and Class politics… “Now that’s a tragedy on a Shakespearean scale!”
Law is Organized Justice
And, in all sincerity, can anything more than the absence of plunder be required of the law? Can the law — which necessarily requires the use of force — rationally be used for anything except protecting the rights of everyone? …
The Long-term Effect of Too Much Information
By Robert Nelson Can we have too much information? If the universe of information is all accurate, and useful, then the the answer is obviously no; we can’t have TOO much. But in the age of digital media projected …
Under-Appreciated Benefits of Markets
By Robert Nelson, MD Honest price-transparent markets allow value propositions to surface and to be discovered. Contrary to the outcries of many academics, intellectuals and utopian collectivist, free markets don’t create wide-spread abuses or anarchy in peaceful law-abiding Societies. The …
Your Right to Free Speech, Like My Right to Self-Defense, Isn’t Open to Debate – Reason.com
We really don’t consider our rights open to discussion. We don’t consider anybody’s rights open to discussion—not even when they’re exercising some rights to call for limiting others. http://reason.com/archives/2018/03/14/your-right-to-free-speech-like-my-right?utm_medium=email
Watch “George Orwell and 1984: How Freedom Dies” on YouTube
Personal liberty requires economic liberty; when the latter is suppressed, the former can never manifest. Whether you’re more in the Orwell camp or the Huxley camp, the problem always begins with a healthy dose of collectivism or statism. Throughout the …
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Did Nietzsche Predict the Post-Modern Politically-Correct Censorship Being Peddled by the Social Justice Warriors?
“It [Politically correct legislative coercion] is resentment, and the demand for power, disguising itself most reprehensibly as compassion; and its time for the mask of that to be taken off and things set straight…” – Jordan Peterson Because, for man …
