Archive for Mark Thornton
The Re-legalization of Drugs
Americans are growing increasingly skeptical of the government’s claims about winning the war against drugs. Should this war be supported because a smaller percentage of teenagers use marijuana, or should it be opposed because a larger percentage of teenagers and young adults use cocaine and crack? Should people be optimistic when multi-billion dollar shipments of [...]
1Apr1991 | Tibor R. Machan | 6 comments | ContinuedReflections on Individual Responsibility
Mr. Thornton is a businessman in Covington, Kentucky. Ideas of free will and individual responsibility have come under heavy assault during the past century. Marxists insist that man is determined by the modes of production; psychoanalysts declare that childhood experiences or sexual inhibitions determine the man; genes, say the biologists; conditioned reflexes, say the behaviorists; [...]
1Jun1963 | Mark Thornton | 0 comments | Continued-
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JPMorgan Chase and Casino Banking
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Individualism, Trade-Unions, and “Self-Governing Combinations”
Who do you imagine said this? “[Trade-unions] seem natural to the passing phase of social evolution,... Read More
Bubbles, Malinvestment, and Higher Education
Many commentators are asking whether the next big bubble to burst will be the debt associated with the... Read More
JPMorgan’s Blunder Is No Market Failure
I am not going to try to defend JPMorgan Chase for its recent, widely reported financial blunders. ... Read More
For Equality; Against Privilege
This TGIF originally ran July 7, 2006. The freedom philosophy can be boiled down to two phrases: for... Read More
