All Posts Tagged With: "love"
Commonwealth
Some two decades after the collapse of communism, socialist intellectuals still scramble to rehabilitate Marx and collectivist social theory in general, with Duke University professor Michael Hardt and Italian sociologist Antonio Negri leading the bunch. Academics are attracted to their radical critique of existing capitalist institutions. Non-academics and educated laypersons on the left are attracted [...]
23Mar2011 | David L. Prychitko | 1 comment | ContinuedThe Love of Power vs. the Power of Love
Lawrence Reed is president of the Mackinac Center for Public Policy, a free-market research and educational organization in Midland, Michigan. “We look forward to the time when the power of love will replace the love of power. Then will our world know the blessings of peace.” So declared British Prime Minister William Ewart Gladstone [...]
1May2007 | Lawrence W. Reed | 2 comments | ContinuedIs Neuroscience Blind?
Researchers in England claim they now understand why love is “blind,” that is, why people tend not to see faults in their loved ones. According to British psychiatrist Raj Persaud’s newspaper commentary on the research, the answer is that, for evolutionary reasons, “strong emotional ties to another person . . . affect the brain circuits [...]
1Sep2004 | Sheldon Richman | 1 comment | ContinuedLove and Economics: Why the Laissez-Faire Family Doesn’t Work
Reviewed by Ryan H. Sager In Love and Economics, Jennifer Roback Morse explores territory where many libertarians fear to tread: The importance of the family to civil society. In her view, libertarians have spent so much time making the case for the autonomy of the individual that they have become reluctant to consider the importance [...]
1Jul2002 | Jennifer Roback Morse | 0 comments | Continued-
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