A Passion for Liberty
Tibor R. Machan @ Rational Review
About Tibor R. Machan
From his Wikipedia bio:
Tibor Richard Machan, Ph.D. (born 18 March 1939), professor emeritus in the department of philosophy at Auburn University, holds the R. C. Hoiles Chair of Business Ethics and Free Enterprise at the Argyros School of Business & Economics at Chapman University in Orange, California.
He is a research fellow at the Hoover Institution at Stanford University, an adjunct scholar at the Cato Institute, and a former adjunct faculty member of the Ludwig von Mises Institute. Machan is a syndicated and freelance columnist; author of more than one hundred scholarly papers and more than thirty books, most recently The Promise of Liberty (Lexington Books, 2008). Machan rejects any division of libertarianism into left and right wing, comparing it to dividing the school into high and low versions. He holds that by its nature libertarianism is about political liberty for all individuals to do whatever that is peaceful, nonaggressive. (One of Machan’s books, a collection of his columns, is titled Neither Left nor Right.)
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November 11, 2010 - 5:49 pm
I read with interest your column on Tree Hugger Hypocrisy. While I agree the liberal elites think they know better than I how to live my life and manage my property, you never said just what the hypocritical neighbors of your actually did to raise your wrath. Maybe you are not quite as lilly white in this as you pose.
May 22, 2011 - 8:58 am
They do not move from their developed land and leave it wild as they insist we all do!
May 28, 2011 - 11:05 am
On in-depth interview, you spoke of a book you wrote for your daughter related to beauty, interested in getting a copy can you provide title.
Thanks much
October 2, 2011 - 6:20 am
Self-published only so far: Cute is Not Enough.
October 29, 2011 - 9:44 pm
I enjoyed your piece on the lack of focus with the OWS protestors. I keep hoping those with sound and vigorous minds, and a pulpit, would continue to expose the cognitive dissonance and in some cases anti-liberty messages of OWS. The MSM has been an abject failure for several decades now, and the climate is evidence of this. I appreciate your distinguished voice on the topic. I’ve been working since two days before the ‘Day of Rage’ through the protestors comm channels, trying to inject some a few Socratic questions to wake a few on the margin.
My favorite tweet about the OWS message has beenthe faceitious: “Washington is grotesquely corrupt and insufficiently powerful.”
April 26, 2012 - 1:59 pm
It was neat to read your column. I have been hiking the Santa Ana mountains for a few years now, drive through them everyday. I’ve had good times, and I’ve had bad times. I’ve had times where my life was threatened, beacuse I was on someone elses ‘property’ while I was out hunting for Blue Dicks (indian potato). I like Mugwort, white sage, black sage, milk thistle, cardoon, and prickly pear fruits. I think there is medicine in these leaves and fruits and bulbs, and I am amazed by life around me when I hike these lands.
It was good to know the human relationships that govern these lands by reeading your column. I do agree with your sense of justice. A man should face up when there is a disagreement and try and work to a mutually and satisfactorily accopmlished goal to the end, the goal of prosperity and peace, health and longevity, and common respect amoungst human beings.