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 …
Category: Rule of Law
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 …
Government Will Protect Us From Bad Speech? That’s the Fakest News of All. – Reason.com
Yeah, it’s “creepy” when media companies mold and twist the news we see to please their political masters. Worse, it’s chilling when governments take the logical next step to promote speech they favor and punish speakers who anger them. Because …
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