All Posts Tagged With: "civil liberties"

The Shame of Medicine: The Depravity of Psychiatry

Psychiatrists alternately deny and delight in possessing special professional skill at detecting future “dangerousness” that entitles them to the special power to incarcerate individuals they so stigmatize in prisons that masquerade as hospitals. The American legal system makes heavy use of psychiatric determinations of dangerousness, as a result of which vast numbers of Americans are deprived of liberty and, at the same time, of opportunity to demonstrate the injustice of their detention. Examples abound.

17Jun2009 | Thomas Szasz | 9 comments | Continued

Reason: Why Liberals Will Win the Battle for America

By Robert Reich Reviewed by George C. Leef

1Mar2007 | George C. Leef | 0 comments | Continued

We Should Trust the Leader, Not the Law? It Just Ain’t So!

Los Angeles Times columnist Max Boot has a message for the American people: put all your fears of diminishing civil liberties back in the closet; the good guys are running the show. 
That, at least, was the message in his column last January, “The Wiretaps Shouldn’t Bug Us,” prompted by a 2005 New York Times article [...]

1Sep2006 | Jude Blanchette | 0 comments | Continued

Book Reviews – September 2006

  • On Political
    Equality
    by Robert A. Dahl
    Reviewed by Richard M. Ebeling

  • Collapse: How
    Societies Choose to Fail or Succeed
    by Jared Diamond Reviewed
    by Gene Callahan

  • Economic Liberties
    and the Constitution
    by Bernard H. Siegan Reviewed by George C. Leef

  • Kidney for Sale by
    Owner: Human Organs, Transplantation, and the Market
    by Mark J. Cherry Reviewed by William L. Anderson

1Sep2006 | agardner | 0 comments | Continued

Civil Liberties and Civil Commitment

Defenders of civil liberties readily recognize when some state interventions—such as censorship of the press or forced religious observances—violate civil liberties. However, many of the same defenders of civil liberties are unable or refuse to recognize when certain other state interventions—such as civil commitment—violate civil liberties.

1Dec2003 | Thomas Szasz | 0 comments | Continued

The Ideals of Tyranny

Socialism, along with other movements founded on egalitarianism, has often been held up as a moral ideal. Many people consider the drive for “equality” to be laudable. It is frequently claimed, however, that socialism, although based on a moral principle, failed because it used immoral means to obtain its ends.

1Mar2001 | Jim Peron | 0 comments | Continued