Friday, March 17, 2023

TGIF: Beware of All Tribalism

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Tribalism is bad. Sensible people will know what I mean by tribe . It's not a club based on some common preference like stamp collecting...
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Tuesday, March 14, 2023

Crime

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Of course there's crime in the streets. What would you expect? The streets are controlled by a coercive monopoly: the government.
Friday, March 10, 2023

TGIF: Hear, O Israel, Give Me Liberty or Give Me Death

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An older generation of Americans, including Jewish Americans, admire the colonists who resisted the British king and parliament in the late ...
Sunday, March 05, 2023

One Step Forward, Two Steps Back

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How to talk to a tomboy: First: "Stop! Girls don't do that!" Then: "You're fine. Girls can do that too." Now: ...
Friday, March 03, 2023

TGIF: Which Way -- Capitalism or Socialism or Something Else?

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Big questions are being thrashed out these days. One of the biggest is this: do we want capitalism or socialism? Unfortunately, the online d...
Thursday, March 02, 2023

Crime and Poverty

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“The theory that crime is caused by poverty is not supported by the known facts. The very poor, in fact, tend to be just as law-abiding as t...
Wednesday, March 01, 2023

Don't Be Silent

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We should reject the fashionable idea that one should never write or post anything that possibly could be used by bad people for bad purpose...
Tuesday, February 28, 2023

Can There Be Only One Race?

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I'm old enough to remember this 1960s Lay's Potato Chips commercial. (Hell, I'm almost old enough to remember when plays were i...
Monday, February 27, 2023

Alibi Beats Achievement

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There are many who find a good alibi far more attractive than an achievement. For an achievement does not settle anything permanently. We st...
Sunday, February 26, 2023

Blaming the Self-Victimizer

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Blaming the victim is certainly objectionable -- but not when individuals victimize themselves. Unfortunately we human beings frequently def...
Saturday, February 25, 2023

How Not to Defend "Capitalism" Against" Socialism"

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I challenge you to show me a lamer "debate" over "capitalism" and "socialism." (Don't worry; it's not ...
Friday, February 24, 2023

TGIF: Immigration Foes, What's the Beef?

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Bryan Caplan If people are going to hate on immigrants, they should at least get their stories straight. Do immigrants take our jobs or do t...
Wednesday, February 22, 2023

Give 'Em a Break!

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I'm inclined to cut the people who lived before what we call the Common Era some slack. You try living with a calendar that runs backwar...
Sunday, February 19, 2023

The Impossibility of Altruism

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It stands to reason that where there’s sacrifice, there’s someone collecting sacrificial offerings. -- Ayn Rand, For the New Intellectual An...
Friday, February 17, 2023

TGIF: Fins Left, Right, and Center

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Th[e] central question is not clarified, it is obscured, by our common political categories of left, right, and center. --Carl Oglesby,  Con...
Friday, February 10, 2023

TGIF: Games Politicians Play

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Except for the civic religion on ostentatious display at the annual presidential state of the union address, one can hardly think of a reaso...
Wednesday, February 08, 2023

Black History Month?

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If a Martian social scientist were to visit America, he surely would assume that Black History Month had been concocted by racists. And he...
Friday, February 03, 2023

TGIF: The Tyre Nichols Atrocity

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The brutal killing of Tyre Nichols literally at the hands (and feet) of several Memphis police officers might be a source of cognitive disso...
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Friday, January 27, 2023

TGIF: Don't Blame Wokeism on the Unfinished Liberal Revolution

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The National Conservatives are not only wrong about genuine liberalism -- that is, libertarianism -- they also apparently haven't bother...
Friday, January 20, 2023

TGIF: The Economic Way of Thinking Can Save Lives

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Thomas Sowell The Cambridge economist Joan Robinson (1903-1983) wisely said, "The purpose of studying economics is not to acquire a set...