All Posts Tagged With: "egalitarianism"
Einstein’s Brain and the Egalitarian Mind
Steven Yates is the author of Civil Wrongs: What Went Wrong with Affirmative Action (ICS Press, 1994) and numerous articles and reviews. Late last spring a team of neuroscientists based at McMaster University in Ontario, Canada, released the first detailed study of Albert Einstein’s brain, which had been preserved since his death in 1955. Einstein [...]
1Nov1999 | Steven Yates | 1 comment | ContinuedWisdom of a Liberal Giant
Dr. Peterson, Heritage Foundation adjunct scholar, is Distinguished Lundy Professor Emeritus of Business Philosophy at Campbell University, Buies Creek, North Carolina. He knew Milton Friedman, Henry Hazlitt, William F. Buckley Jr., Ayn Rand. He was the mentor of F. A. Hayek, who went on to win the Nobel Prize in economics. He was a key [...]
1May1997 | William H. Peterson | 0 comments | ContinuedThe Just Society
Dr. Nash is professor of philosophy at Reformed Theological Seminary and the author of Why the Left is Not Right: The Religious Left in America (Zondervan Publishing House). Whenever one comes upon a university press book containing multiple essays by different authors, all of them academics, it’s a pretty safe bet that the book will [...]
1Oct1996 | Ronald Nash | 0 comments | ContinuedCivil Rights Socialism
Mr. Rockwell is president of the Ludwig von Mises Institute in Auburn, Alabama. The Fabian Society of Britain believed in three central doctrines of political economy. First, every country must create its own form of socialism. Second, socialism imposed slowly is more permanent than the revolutionary form. and third, socialism is not likely to succeed [...]
1May1996 | Llewellyn H. Rockwell Jr | 1 comment | ContinuedGlobalism and Sovereignty: A Short History of the Bricker Amendment
Mr. Woods, an Intercollegiate Studies Institute Richard M. Weaver Fellow, is a doctoral candidate in history at Columbia University. Historically, conservatives and libertarians have always maintained a suspicion of supranational governing bodies. Their central fear has been that foreign bodies may serve to compromise self-government and American liberties in favor of egalitarian and universalist political [...]
1Apr1996 | Thomas E. Woods Jr. | 1 comment | ContinuedThe Business-Ethics Quagmire
Karol Boudreaux teaches Business Law and Business Ethics at Clemson University. Under pressure from accreditation agencies, business schools have begun requiring a class in “business ethics” for undergraduate business majors and MBA students. The ostensible purpose is to familiarize students with potential ethical dilemmas common in the business world. Is the course necessary? Some critics [...]
1Jan1996 | Karol Boudreaux | 0 comments | ContinuedA Moral Basis for Liberty
With the Soviet bloc’s collapse and the evidence of socialism’s appalling failures and human cost, capitalism seems triumphant. Francis Fukuyama even proclaimed the “end of history”: ideological conflicts are over; only managerial and technical controversies remain. For Father Robert Sirico, founder and president of the Acton Institute, this facile optimism is untenable. Pragmatic defenses of [...]
1Sep1995 | John Attarian | 0 comments | ContinuedRisks in the Modern World: What Prospects for Rationality?
Mr. Smith is president and founder of the Competitive Enterprise Institute in Washington, D.C. He is co-editor of Environmental Politics: Public Costs, Private Rewards (Praeger, 1992). Risk refers to the likelihood that something will go wrong.[1] People naturally fear such mishaps, and risk aversion is a basic survival trait. Only non-survivors rush in where angels [...]
1Mar1995 | Fred Smith | 1 comment | Continued-
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