All Posts Tagged With: "human dignity"
Gulag: A History
Siberia. The word has had a chilling connotation for people around the world for 200 years. Long before Lenin and the Bolsheviks came to power in 1917, the tsarist regime had used the vast area that stretches from the Ural Mountains to the Pacific and Arctic Oceans as a place of exile and forced labor [...]
7Jul2010 | Richard M. Ebeling | 1 comment | ContinuedThe Four Mistakes of Nonlibertarians
George Leef is book review editor of The Freeman. In Libertarianism: For and Against (Rowman & Littlefield, 2005), two philosophers debate the merits of libertarianism. Arguing in favor is Professor Tibor Machan, a contributing editor to The Freeman. His opponent is Professor Craig Duncan, who attempts a refutation of libertarianism and seeks to persuade readers [...]
1Jun2007 | George C. Leef | 0 comments | ContinuedPrivate Rights and Public Illusions
In many quarters these days it is fashionable to debunk the so-called “myth of the individual.” Tibor Machan’s book might be seen as a refreshing debunking of the “myth of the public.” I say refreshing, partly because those who debunk the first myth are often victims of the second. In addition, although his is not [...]
1Feb1996 | Doug Den Uyl | 0 comments | Continued-
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