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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December 4, 2009 - 4:43 am
You are right on about the rich.
As I am fond of asking the liberal idiots here, “Have you ever gotten a job from a poor person”?
You are also right about people needing some “creative desperation” to get going in life. I came from humble beginnings also, but I am well enough off now to have moved my business to Singapore and to live in New Zealand. I know, I know, by being a libertarian who once met Ayn Rand at the Ford Hall Forum, the socialism here is enough to drive one crazy. Rand could never have envisioned as fiction, what is going on here right now, when she was writing Atlas Shrugged. However, I feel very safe here from the coming (ongoing?) world crisis and possible WWIII.
If you are ever in New Zealand let me know, I would like to talk to you and I’ll pay for dinner.
Life is too short to drink bad wine.
Take care and stay safe,
Larry Wood