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Posts by Tibor R. Machan
Column on Why not Pessimism?
February 11, 2012 - 10:57 am
Tags: A. Napolitano, Gary Johnson, J. Stossel, John Maynard Keynes, Krugman, Orwell's Animal Farm, Reason Magazine, Reason.com
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Why not Pessimism? Tibor R. Machan By most accounts there is little good news about any progress toward a freer society, quite the contrary. Around the globe, of course, there are some regions that are making small moves away from tyranny but even in those few, human freedom doesn’t appear to be a priority. Instead [...]
Column on A Small Pleasure of Book Production
February 5, 2012 - 8:21 pm
Tags: Ron Paul, The American Journal of Psychology, The Libertarian Alternative, The Libertarian Reader (books by Machan and by Boaz), The Mises Institute
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A Small Pleasure of Book Production Tibor R. Machan One of my books is a collection of prominent essays by mostly contemporary libertarian political-economic thinkers. Its title, The Libertarian Reader (1982), was so well chosen that years later someone quite prominent, David Boaz of the Cato Institute, also used it for a collection of essays [...]
Column on How To Win This One in November
February 5, 2012 - 10:52 am
Tags: Gingrich, Obama, populism vs. liberty, Romney
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How to Win this One in November Tibor R. Machan Seeing that it looks like Mitt Romney may well win the Republican nomination–though it’s too early to be sure about that–It has been a concern of freedom loving Americans whether the nod given to human individual liberty by the Tea Party back in 2010 will [...]
Column on Good Bye OC Register
February 4, 2012 - 7:48 pm
Tags: Freedom Communications, Hoiles Family, Inc., libertarianism, R. C. Hoiles
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Good Bye OC Register Tibor R. Machan Since the Fall of 1966 (if memory serves me right) I have been a columnist at what was then The Santa Ana but is now the Orange County Register. I cannot count how many columns I produced, nearly all of them concerned with demonstrating the superiority of the [...]
Column on the Bottom Line on Obama-Economics
January 28, 2012 - 5:37 pm
Tags: fairness, George Orwell, North Koreaa, Obama & Co., Robert Nozick, USSR
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The bottom line on Obama-economics! Tibor R. Machan Economic fairness is impossible: an oxymoron. Since economic activities are inherently varied and often competitive and since one size doesn’t fit all and not everyone can win in a competition, no such thing as fairness is possible unless it simply means no one may be prevented from [...]
