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Column on Texas Textbook Troubles
March 9, 2010 - 7:43 pm
Tags: censorship, diversity, Privatization, scholarship
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Texas Textbook Troubles
Tibor R. Machan
In my own field of work, university education, there are a great many who scoff at the idea of privatization, something that is exactly how a free society should handle all education from primary to post graduate schools. There is no [...]
Essay on Health Care as Basic Right
March 8, 2010 - 10:49 am
Tags: forced labor, involuntary servitude, positive vs. negative rights, T.H. Green, Ted Kennedy
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Is Quality Health Care a Fundamental Right?
Tibor R. Machan
In a famous essay, published in the July 27 2009, issue of Newsweek magazine, the late Senator Ted Kennedy reiterated a message with which he has come to be very closely associated. As he wrote in that essay, [...]
Column on Big Lie Theory Flourishes
March 6, 2010 - 9:42 am
Tags: Big Lie Theory, free markets, Government regulations, mixed economy, Plato, protectionism, the Republic
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Big Lie Theory Flourishes
Tibor R. Machan
The theory of the big (but good) lie goes back to a certain reading of Plato’s most famous dialogue, the Republic. There are more or less crude versions of it but the gist of the theory is that for reasons of [...]
From the “Ask the Libertarian” Blog at OC Register
March 5, 2010 - 8:25 am
Tags: comparative political economy, freedom of choice and morality, principles, utilitarian versus normative arguments; empiricism
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Among classical liberals and libertarians there has been a pretty vehement debate about whether liberty is best shown to be of primary value in society via utilitarian or practical or by means of normative arguments. Utilitarian arguments work mostly with historical evidence: free institutions, markets, legal systems and such have been productive of much happiness [...]
Column on Property Rights and Gun Rights
March 4, 2010 - 9:43 pm
Tags: Justice Byron White, property rights, Public spheres, Second Amendment, Starbucks
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Property Rights and Gun Rights
Tibor R. Machan
Over the years the distinction between public and private spaces has become obscured. Which is why Starbucks is finding it so difficult to insist that customers do not carry weapons while in their establishment. It is because over [...]
