The Need for Heroes and Heroism
A group of classical liberals whose email list I’m on got into an interesting discussion recently about the role of, and need for, heroes and heroism. The best comment I saw was by Todd Zywicki, a law professor at George Mason University, who gave me permission to quote him. Here’s Todd, with a little chopping […]
Links 1/15/2023 | naked capitalism
See the Largest Flower Ever Found Encased in Amber Scientific American Skeleton of man who dreaded becoming a museum exhibit will finally be removed from display CNN Maine gets 1st Mega Millions jackpot with $1.35B grand prize AP Climate Newsom proposes cuts to climate change programs amid cloudy economic outlook LA Times. Attaboy. That’s the […]
The Right’s Unnecessary Civil War
There is an ongoing battle today between conservatives who want to use government’s power to enforce morality and libertarians. The former believe that the nation’s moral decay is a product of classical liberal policies that allowed or even encouraged immorality. It is not. It is a product of a half century of expanding government policies […]
The Supreme Court’s Complicity in Our Loss of Freedom
After the Constitution had been drafted, it was submitted to the states for ratification. It had quite a few opponents, called the Anti-Federalists. They argued that the proposed government would have too much power and would become a danger to the people’s rights. Most of their fire was aimed at Articles I and II, which […]
