Showing posts with label individualism. Show all posts
Showing posts with label individualism. Show all posts
Friday, January 02, 2026

TGIF: Warm Individualism or Cold Collectivism?

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Newly inaugurated New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani promises to "replace the frigidity of rugged individualism with the warmth of coll...
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Friday, May 16, 2025

TGIF: Individuals, Not America, First

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Let's hear no more about America First! It's a fraud, a cover for collectivist nationalism, and a distraction from what matters. (It...
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Thursday, January 02, 2025

Which Came First: The Individual or the Group?

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"It is illusory to believe that it is possible to visualize collective wholes. They are never visible; their cognition is always the ou...
Saturday, December 21, 2024

Whose Plan?

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"The alternative is not plan or no plan. The question is whose planning? Should each member of society plan for himself, or should a be...
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Friday, September 27, 2024

TGIF: Who Cares about Inequality?

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What accounts for the preoccupation with income and wealth inequality? We hear about it every day. Isn't our absolute living standard wh...
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Monday, June 03, 2024

Nation, Race, and Individual

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"Nation and race do not coincide; there is no nation of pure blood. All peoples have arisen from a mixture of races.... "[T]he con...
Friday, May 10, 2024

TGIF: What Is Self-Determination?

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People go on quite a bit about self-determination these days. Some decry the denial of self-determination to "the Palestinians." O...
Friday, March 22, 2024

Washington, We Have Problem

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Centralized power has a problem: the individual. Every person is a potential disrupter of The Plan, and disruption must be forbidden. Otherw...
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Monday, January 29, 2024

Looking for a Good Cause?

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The problem for (not with ) the younger generations is that all the good social causes have been taken and substantially addressed. (Of cour...
Friday, November 17, 2023

TGIF: Cooperation versus Bigotry

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We who value individualism, freedom, and social cooperation as essential to flourishing should be distressed by the hostile bigotry that has...
Tuesday, May 05, 2020

Atomistic Individualism for the Win!

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I'd say defenders of the automobile versus mass transit are looking pretty good these days.
Saturday, December 08, 2012

Individualist Collectivism

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Is the free market an individualist or collectivist social arrangement? Don’t answer too quickly. It’s a trick question. My latest TGIF is...
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Scott Horton and I Talk about "Individualist Collectivism"

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Here's my latest interview with Scott Horton.
Tuesday, May 25, 2010

Zora Neale Hurston

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She didn't get much wrong. From Wikipedia : John McWhorter has called Hurston "America's favorite black conservative ." [...
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Friday, July 31, 2009

TGIF: Are We Really All Healthcare Collectivists Now?

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“We have to do something about health care.” The scariest word in that sentence is not something . It’s we . TGIF is here .