A detour into the political history of England with Victor Davis Hanson. Historically, Britain has looked more upon the seas and the New World than eastward to Europe. In that transatlantic sense, a Canadian or American typically had more in …
Category: Rule of Law
The Epidemic of Woke Politicians | Intellectual Takeout
By Martin Cothran When all you’ve got is a hammer, everything looks like a nail. And when all you’ve got is politics (for an ideologue, everything is political), everything looks like it is resolvable by a law. Hence the current …
Read More "The Epidemic of Woke Politicians | Intellectual Takeout"
Watch “John Stossel – Influence of Milton Friedman” on YouTube
Milton Friedman’s core message was that personal freedom and economic freedom go hand in hand. Pursuing life, liberty & happiness must be accomplished by individuals, and can’t be granted to us by bureaucrats or gov’t programs. Milton Friedman understood this …
Read More "Watch “John Stossel – Influence of Milton Friedman” on YouTube"
Bernie Sanders Gets a Lesson in What a $15 Minimum Wage Would Mean – Reason.com
“…it’s telling to see how Sanders’ campaign responded to the allegation that the Vermont socialist is not putting his money where his mouth is. In a statement, Shakir stressed that Sanders’ campaign “offers wages and benefits competitive with other campaigns, …
Read More "Bernie Sanders Gets a Lesson in What a $15 Minimum Wage Would Mean – Reason.com"
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, …
