The pandemic response enabled new government powers of surveillance, enforcement, and hegemony, resulting in the ultimate and global experiment in social management under the guise of science.
CULTURE
Cuba’s Eternal Revolution Through the Prism of Insurgency, Socialism, and Espionage
Cuba’s Eternal Revolution Through the Prism of Insurgency, Socialism, and Espionage relates much about Cuba’s history that needs to be known, and disabuses readers of the carefully cultivated idea that Cuba has turned into a tropical paradise due to socialism.
Schools Should be Accountable to Parents and Students
Expanding the government’s education monopoly will not achieve that goal. Expanding freedom of choice will. Freedom of choice will empower parents and students to hold schools accountable.
This Labor Day Celebrate The Human Mind
On Labor Day, let us honor the true root of production and wealth: the human mind.
Self-Sacrifice Is Evil, Self-Interest Is Good
Rational self-interest is good, including when used to help others whom you value, but true altruism (as opposed to helping valued others) works against human life and happiness.
The New Deal’s War on the Bill of Rights: The Untold Story of FDR’s Concentration Camps, Censorship, and Mass Surveillance
The New Deal was completely unnecessary economically.
John Locke, The U.S. Constitution and the General Welfare
John Locke’s view reflects the fact that a government that has nothing of its own to give, but can only give what it takes from others, means it cannot “give” to some without involuntarily violating the general welfare of others.
The Illusion of Determinism: Sam Harris’ Aborted Attempt to Refute Free Will
Free will cannot be proven because it is the foundation of any proof of anything. It is determinism and not free will that is an illusion.
Mutual Egoism: The Key To a Rational Relationship
Each partner personally values the other because they possess admirable qualities, such as integrity, and they share common values and interests.
Capitalism at a Crossroads: 1875-1900
Throughout history, some people have enjoyed greater wealth than others. However, American society was the first in which thatwealth was attained, not by conquest or confiscation, but by production and trade. For this, America’s capitalists were condemned.
Free Will Is No Illusion
Free will is, thus, an axiom of epistemology. It is self-evident to introspection and cannot be refuted without contradiction.
Subsidies and Government Schools
If rural Texans want government schools, then they should be willing to pay for them. Nobody is stopping them from making voluntary contributions to their local schools. They aren’t doing that because they would prefer to force others to “contribute” to their cause.
Are Intellectual Ability Tests Biased?
IQ should not be confused with actual learning or the acquisition of knowledge.
A Declaration of Independence from Tyrannical Government
The “monkish ignorance and superstition” of today is the misplaced belief that the individual is to be sacrificed to the group, the collective, to the nation – as long as the banner under which it is done is called “democracy” or “social justice.”
Put the Independence Back in Independence Day
The American Revolution remains unique in human history: a revolution–and a nation–founded on a moral principle, the principle of individual rights.
A Brief History of “Corporatism”
Corporatism abolishes the competitive dynamic of competitive capitalism and replaces it with cartels run by oligarchs.
Humility is Nothing To Be Proud Of
The Religious Virtue of Humility contrasted with The Rational Virtue of Pride
DeSantis Reminds Public Universities of The Uncomfortable Truth About ‘He Who Pays the Piper’
DeSantis should instruct Florida colleges and universities as follows: If you want complete autonomy to do whatever you want, then fine. We’ll stop subsidizing you. You will then be free to raise your revenues in other ways—essentially from willing customers, investors, donors, or whomever.
Legislators Should be Protecting Intellectual Liberty
While the Senate is promoting the intellectual liberty of parents and students it is also assaulting that freedom by mandating that a particular set of ideas be taught.
The Reading Wars Have Returned with New Labels
Why the phonics-based approach is the only legitimate approach to beginning reading
Books: Economics in Action by Brian Balfour
I would recommend that parents who want their children to be part of the solution, rather than part of the problem, should get this book for them.
Social Media: Great for Everyone?
When considering whether social media are helping or hurting your life or that of a child, here are some questions to consider.
The Separation of State from Religion, Science, and Education (Part 8 of 10)
The system of public education could be abolished over the course of a generation, in a way that need not impose financial hardship on the parents of any child alive at the time of the abolition’s commencement.
The United States of America and Slavery
The proper evaluation of the United States in relation to slavery is this: ending slavery by fighting and winning the Civil War was a tremendous moral achievement and should be celebrated.