Socrates was taken aback when the Oracle of Delphi said there was none wiser than he. Not believing the Oracle, Socrates went on an exhaustive hunt for a person wiser than himself, but came up empty. Why? Because everyone he …
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Propaganda, Pandering, and Politics – AAPS | Association of American Physicians and Surgeons
“It sounds so virtuous to insist that “healthcare is a right.” Thus, if you do not believe medical care should be free, you are not a moral person. This technique echoes Aldous Huxley’s view that “the propagandist’s purpose is to …
Old Wisdom, Modern Folly | Frontpage Mag
Welcome to another edition of Friday’s Philosophical Foray beyond Healthcare! Bruce Thornton examines the writings of Alexis de Tocqueville to illuminate “The wages of modernity’s technocratic hubris.” “When it comes to America’s political order, no commentator today has yet come …
Bastiat on the Nature of Government (and Why America’s Was the Exception) – Foundation for Economic Education
“I should be glad…if you had really discovered a beneficent and inexhaustible being, calling itself the Government…which can provide for all our wants…correct all our errors, repair all our faults, and exempt us henceforth from the necessity for foresight, prudence, …
Watch “Milton Friedman – The Robber Baron Myth” on YouTube
“Robber Barons will always be with us. The crucial question is whether we have a form of economic organization in which one robber baron keeps the other robber baron in check. Or whether we have a form of political & …
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The Dreyfuss Civics Initiative – Promoting the Education of American Civics
Civics is important because… “students need to know how to run the country before they run the country” – Richard Dreyfuss https://thedreyfussinitiative.org/
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