“More importantly, if you care about improving the quality of life and living standards over time, the essential question is always about creating broad-based, sustainable economic growth. What are the conditions that are most likely to help the economy get …
Category: Rule of Law
Frédéric Bastiat on the Connection between Socialism, Communism, and Protectionism – Foundation for Economic Education
“…As for systems based on legalized plunder, Bastiat says: 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—then everyone will want to participate in making …
Preferred Pronouns or Prison | PragerU
“The State can’t force people to say things they don’t believe.” Justice Robert Jackson – West Virginia State Board of Education v Barnette (1943) Source: Preferred Pronouns or Prison | PragerU
Female Genital Mutilation: Why Are Doctors Silent?
“…we have seen a trend moving it away from villages and homes, where it has usually been done, and into hospitals, clinics, and private offices. The location change has ushered in a vocational change. Health professionals—doctors and nurses—are now frequently …
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Everyone Agrees Government Is a Hot Mess. So Why Does It Keep Getting Bigger Anyway? – Reason.com
Counter-intuitively, the less trusting of government we become, the more likely we are to call for more regulation by that same government. “When individuals distrust others, they prefer government officials to regulate and control, even when they know that these …
Opioid Policy: The Devil and the Deep Blue Sea | Medpage Today
Great insight and perspective by Heath McAnally, MD, MSPH, regarding the sometimes reactive, albeit good intentioned, response of gov’t and private entities to the opioid crisis. Worth the read for sure. Pendulum swings in medicine aren’t new, but damping the oscillation …
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Meet the Philosopher Behind the Ideology of the Anti-Fascists – Foundation for Economic Education
Welcome to another edition of Friday’s Philosophical Foray beyond Healthcare! Still think Fascism is a Right Wing phenomenon? Think again! The philosophical roots of Mussolini’s strategies were borrowed in large part from Marxism. Then came the work of Hubert Marcuse, …
