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TSA & the Free Society: Are They Compatible?
January 24, 2012 - 1:44 pm
Tags: confusions, Rand Paul, TSA
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TSA & a Free Country: Are the Compatible? Tibor R. Machan Why does the TSA annoy so many of us? Not having the resources to do a survey, I resort here to what might be called educated speculation. I suspect it is because free men and women consider it invasive for government agents to order [...]
Column on BBC & Capitalism
January 21, 2012 - 12:46 pm
Tags: BBC, Buchanan & Tullock, Hobsbawm, Marxism
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BBC’s Biased Coverage of Capitalism Tibor R. Machan On the BBC website an interview was featured recently with the famous orthodox Marxist, Eric Hobsbawm, who promptly denounced capitalism as if he had established definitively its inferiority as a political economic system. Is the BBC such an irresponsible news organization that it will feature Mr. Hobsbawm’s [...]
Column on MLK’s Public Philosophy of Freedom
January 17, 2012 - 8:51 am
Tags: Amy Goodman, John Fullerton, Jr., Martin Luther King
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MLK’s Public Philosophy of Freedom Tibor R. Machan As I flew home across the country from NYC on January 16th, the holiday this year in honor of the birthday of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., I had the opportunity to watch several programs on television devoted to his legacy. I was especially struck by the [...]
Column on Cuba Awakes?
January 2, 2012 - 1:33 pm
Tags: BBC, moving to free market, Raul & Fidel Castro, Soviet legacy
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Cuba Awakes? Tibor R. Machan Cuba’s fate over the last half a century has been disastrous, although before that the island wasn’t a Caribbean paradise either. US government policies haven’t made it easier for Cubans to escape their misery since instead of opening up the routes of free trade, the US has mostly chosen to [...]
