Sunday, February 27, 2022

Don't Let the US Foreign Policy Elite Off the Hook

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It would be unwise in the extreme to let our horror at Putin's invasion of Ukraine to permit us to forget the many ways in which the U....
Friday, February 25, 2022

Ten Favorite Books

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Keith Knight, host of the Don't Tread on Anyone podcast, interviewed me about ten of my favorite books. 

TGIF: On Privilege

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One of the most abused words in English is  privilege . Observe how indiscriminately this word is spoken and written. For example, in some q...
Thursday, February 24, 2022

Change of Pace

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It's certainly a change to have a major country other than the United States committing an invasion.

Damn!

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Vladimir Putin's invasion and bombing of Ukraine deserve the condemnation of all decent people. Regardless of what has been going on ove...
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Wednesday, February 23, 2022

Russia, China, Iran, and the U.S.

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At this tense moment it is important to realize that the hardliners on both sides of any geopolitical rivalry are de facto allies. They need...
Tuesday, February 22, 2022

Why Provoke Putin?

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No one I know who criticizes America's post-Cold War policy toward Russia -- including the U.S. position on Ukraine -- thinks Vladimir P...

Language and Reality

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Language doesn't block us from direct cognitive contact with reality. It facilitates that contact. Philosophers who express disagreement...
Friday, February 18, 2022

TGIF: Licensing the Fringe

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Big Tech's incredible promise to rid its platforms of "misinformation and disinformation" is not only a chimera that will har...
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Tuesday, February 15, 2022

Class Conflict

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Not everyone has the luxury of endless navel-gazing in search of his or her true identity. Some people are too busy worrying about whether t...
Sunday, February 13, 2022

Thought Experiment

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You're about to be mugged, with a likelihood of grievous bodily harm or death. You see two buttons. One will produce a city cop to preve...
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Friday, February 11, 2022

TGIF: More Voices, Please

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If the social media and other high-tech companies, whether under pressure from the state or not, were to lead people to believe that, starti...
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Tuesday, February 08, 2022

Bastiat Foresees 1/6

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"As long as it is admitted that the law may be diverted from its true purpose—that it may violate property instead of protecting it—the...
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Socialized Medicine Ain't Freedom

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The emergence of a pro-Enlightenment, pro-reason, anti-woke left, with its eloquent declarations in favor of freedom, is welcome indeed. But...
Monday, February 07, 2022

Better Off -- Really?

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If the social media and other high-tech companies, pushed by the state, were to lead people to believe that, starting today, only accurate ...
Sunday, February 06, 2022

P -> Q

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If there were no truth (or Truth, as it is sometimes derisively put), we would have no need  ever  to revise our beliefs.
Saturday, February 05, 2022

A Modest Proposal

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Perhaps there should be a penalty for thinkers who violate the  law of parsimony .
Friday, February 04, 2022

Government Education Chickens Return Again to the Roost

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If you favor a government-controlled virtual monopoly in schooling, don't be surprised when a school board removes   Maus , the award-wi...

TGIF: Disagreement without Conflict

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Chandran Kukathas I'll admit it: I'm a natural-rights guy. I think you can get to individual rights, including the right to property...
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Thursday, February 03, 2022

Include Me Out

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If inclusion means including boys and men in girls-and-women-only spaces, then (as movie producer Samuel Goldwyn was to have said) include ...
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