All Posts Tagged With: "justice"
Drawing Life: Surviving the Unabomber
John Attarian is a freelance writer in Ann Arbor, Michigan, and an adjunct scholar with the Midland, Michigan-based Mackinac Center for Public Policy. David Gelernter was a busy associate professor of computer science at Yale University, an artistic man who had entered software research because he wanted a trade. Then, going through his mail on [...]
1Jul1998 | John Attarian | 0 comments | ContinuedWhy Some Federal Jobs Should Be Abolished
Dr. Machan teaches political philosophy at Auburn University. His most recent book is Private Rights and Public Illusions (Transaction Books, 1995). It is a sad spectacle when political leaders lack a coherent framework by which to explain to the public why various official actions being taken are required and, indeed, just. This is the predicament [...]
1Oct1996 | Tibor R. Machan | 0 comments | ContinuedDefining Justice
Mr. Da Vee is a freelance writer living in Monterey, California. When a word is used in a certain context often enough, it can take on a whole new meaning. One such casualty of the English language is the word “justice.” By planting it within the phrase “economic justice,” we begin to equate justice with [...]
1Aug1996 | Mark Da Vee | 2 comments | ContinuedBastiat, Liberty, and The Law
“The state is that great fiction by which everyone tries to live at the expense of everyone else.” —Frederic Bastiat Frederic Bastiat (1801-1850) holds a special place in the hearts and minds of the friends of liberty. There is no mystery here to be solved. The key to Bastiat’s appeal is the integrity and elegance [...]
1May1996 | Sheldon Richman | 2 comments | ContinuedLegalized Immorality
The late Clarence Manion was Dean of the College of Law, Notre Dame University. “Legalized Immorality,” an excerpt from his 1950 book, The Key to Peace, appeared in Essays on Liberty, Volume I (FEE, 1952). It must be remembered that 96 percent of the peace, order, and welfare existing in human society is always produced [...]
1Mar1996 | Clarence E. Manion | 3 comments | ContinuedJustice or Utility
Mr. Bidinotto is a long-time contributor to Reader’s Digest and The Freeman and a lecturer at FEE seminars. Criminal Justice? The Legal System Versus Individual Responsibility, edited by Mr. Bidinotto and published by FEE, is available at $29.95 in cloth and $19.95 in paperback. The core purposes of government are well expressed in the Preamble to [...]
1Aug1995 | Robert James Bidinotto | 0 comments | ContinuedJustice or Legal Extortion?
Ms. McCarthy, a Pittsburgh restaurateur, is published in Barron’s, Forbes, and The Quotable Woman. Shame on the managers of the Las Vegas Hilton for not recognizing that the elite corps of Navy aviators known as the Tailhook Association needed a babysitter. For that failure, the American legal system has sent yet another in its endless [...]
1Apr1995 | Sarah J. McCarthy | 0 comments | Continued-
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