Friday, March 24, 2017

One More Flaw in Conservative Health Care Reform

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Conservatives oppose federally mandated health insurance benefits (maternity, etc.), but they favor states having the power to mandate such...

TGIF: Trump’s Military Budget Is Not NATO’s Fault

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President Trump’s budget proposal would increase military spending $54 billion, not quite a 10 percent increase over the current level.  Acc...
Friday, March 17, 2017

TGIF: Things to Keep in Mind During the Health Care Debate

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As the debate proceeds over what should succeed the Affordable Care Act (Obamacare), here are a few basic ideas to keep in mind. Read TG...

Op-ed: American Church

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The op-ed version of my article "Donald Trump Assumes Command of the American Church" appears this morning in the Arkansas Democr...
Friday, March 10, 2017

TGIF: The Religion of the State

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In 1912 the pioneering French sociologist Emile Durkheim (1858-1917) published The Elementary Forms of Religious Life , which presented h...
Friday, March 03, 2017

Some Israelis Understand the Monstrous Injustice their Country Commits

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Cable Noise Network: Mouthpiece for the War State

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CNN and its Pentagon stenographer, Barbara Starr, are shameless mouthpieces for the war state. In an article touting the Pentagon's unv...

TGIF: Trump Assumes Command of the American Church

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As Donald Trump demonstrated in his first address to Congress, no matter how loathsome a ruler may be, he can bring an assembly of politi...
Wednesday, March 01, 2017

Liberal Islam

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Part of the West's ideology holds that Islam is irredeemably illiberal. So if "we" have to use violence against Muslim societi...
Monday, February 27, 2017

Hayek on Rules, Tradition, and Freedom

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There is advantage in obedience to such [moral and other social] rules not being coerced, not only because coercion as such is bad, but bec...
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Trump Nation

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#1: The son of legendary boxer Muhammad Ali was detained for hours by immigration officials at a Florida airport, a family friend told the...

Is the Intel Complex Trying to Sabotage Trump?

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One need not be a Trumpster to be concerned by the apparent campaign of the intelligence community (sic; does it have an HOA, golf course, ...
Friday, February 24, 2017

TGIF: In Defense of Extreme Cosmopolitanism

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Cosmopolitanism is under assault from across the political spectrum, both in the United States and abroad. Just yesterday President Donald...
Friday, February 10, 2017

TGIF: "Isolationist" Trump Rattles His Saber

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A few libertarians and other principled opponents of the warfare state assured us we likely would sleep easier with Donald Trump, rather tha...
Friday, February 03, 2017

TGIF: Trump's Blueprint for More Government

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Donald Trump remains blinded -- willfully or not I cannot say -- by his absurd narrative of America as an aggrieved nation. It's a narra...
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Wednesday, February 01, 2017

Nationalism and Religion

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Nationalism is religion -- or, to put it in a less-biased form, nationalism and religion are two members of the same family. Is there reaso...
Monday, January 30, 2017

Podcast Interview

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Liam Cardenas interviewed me for his podcast. Watch it here.
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Friday, January 27, 2017

TGIF: Trump Nation

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Did Donald Trump on Inauguration Day intend to remind us of the European despotisms of the last century? Who could miss signs? They adorne...
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Thursday, January 26, 2017

Trump's Wall and the Assault on Private Property

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The  Washington Post 's   article on Donald Trump's border wall does something unusual: it takes into account Trump's planned as...
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Friday, January 20, 2017

Cognitive Dissonance

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On this day of all days America’s priestly political class can extol the great glory of the Almighty State without restraint — but Donald Tr...
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