Moral Bias at The New York Times Tibor R. Machan The headline said it all: “Confusion and Staff Troubles Rife at I.R.S. Office in Ohio.” No mention of mendacity, of evil, of meanness, of vice, Nada. For liberals their own pals are never morally amiss. They may make mistakes, be confused and have troubles. But [...]

My “I told you so world.” Tibor R. Machan So all of us who have long concluded that big government–which is to say, government with wide, nearly unlimited scope of power over the population it is supposed to serve–is a menace, no better than a gang of embezzlers and extortionists, can shout out “I told [...]

Why Free Will Matters Tibor R. Machan Let me once again quote George Orwell, who reportedly noted that “Sometimes the first duty of intelligent men is the restatement of the obvious.” The idea that without free will there can be no morality is one of those obvious facts that bears repeating. It was Kant who [...]

Back to Basics Please Tibor R. Machan In today’s climate of political theatrics it isn’t very easy to figure out where right stands versus wrong. As Ron Paul points out at The Daily Bell, the Benghazi fiasco pretty much amounts to an illustration of the folly of the American government’s unending involvement in foreign affairs [...]

A Precis on Humanism Tibor R. Machan In modern times humanism has been associated with Karl Marx and one of his teachers, Ludwig Feuerbach. The latter was an atheist who believed that it wasn’t God who created man but the other way around. Since, however, this left no one to command us to do the [...]