From: Gray, Philip [philip.gray@nytimes.com] Sent: Monday, April 09, 2012 3:22 PM To: Gray, Philip Subject: The forum is now online Hello again. The forum about pet health care is now online: http://nyti.ms/HwxR9x. It’s a great conversation, with a variety of perspectives. We should get a solid number of readers tomorrow throughout the day. Thank you [...]

Fox TV versus The New York Times Tibor R. Machan My team of media researchers is on vacation just now, so I have to do this by myself, based on my non-scientific study of the journalistic lay of the land. What I have concluded from years of observation is that Fox-TV news is widely scoffed [...]

Machan’s Archives: Disputing Positive Rights (or Liberty) Tibor R. Machan* An influential idea in contemporary political philosophy is positive rights (or liberty). It has been advanced by political thinkers on both the Right and the Left. In contrast to the theory of basic natural rights that John Locke developed, in terms of which every individual [...]

The Economic Tyranny of the Interstate Commerce Clause Tibor R. Machan Here is an instructive comment from Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg during the recent oral arguments presented about Obamacare: “People who don’t participate in this market are making it much more expensive for the people who do; that is, they will get, a [...]

Altruism isn’t Generosity Tibor R. Machan A big error has haunted humanity for centuries: it’s the equivocation between generosity and altruism. The former is a virtue any decent human being will practice: it asks of one to reach out to deserving others in times of dire need. The latter is a policy of devoting oneself [...]