All Posts Tagged With: "oppression"
What We Don’t Know about History Can Hurt Us
“It ain’t so much the things we don’t know that get us into trouble. It’s the things we know that just ain’t so.” That famous line, attributed to many authors but apparently said by humorist Henry Wheeler Shaw (aka Josh Billings), applies to history as much as anything. What liberates oppressed people? I was taught [...]
26Oct2011 | John Stossel | 3 comments | ContinuedAyn Rand: A Centennial Appreciation
This essay is derived from a more comprehensive paper written for the forthcoming anthology, edited by Edward Younkins, Atlas Shrugged: Ayn Rand’s Philosophical and Literary Masterpiece. Born in Russia on February 2, 1905, the late novelist and philosopher Ayn Rand would eventually emigrate to the United States and make an indelible mark on intellectual history. [...]
1Feb2005 | Chris Matthew Sciabarra | 0 comments | ContinuedGlobal Capitalism: Curing Oppression and Poverty
Andrew Bernstein (www.andrewbernstein.net) is the author of The Capitalist Manifesto (University Press of America, forthcoming next year). Although leftist agitators continue to protest global capitalism, they overlook the key points in the debate. Capitalism has been instituted on three continents—in western Europe, North America, and Asia. These nations—England, France, the United States, Japan, Hong Kong, [...]
1Dec2003 | Andrew Bernstein | 14 comments | ContinuedSeeing the World Plain
Doug Bandow, a nationally syndicated columnist, is a senior fellow at the Cato Institute and the author and editor of several books. Washington, D.C., is filled with professions of good intentions by politicians and bureaucrats as they steadily strip away Americans’ liberty and money. The political class uses even the most serious social problem to [...]
1Feb2003 | Doug Bandow | 0 comments | ContinuedA Think Tank for Those Who Don’t Think
The ideas of economists and political philosophers, both when they are right and when they are wrong,” wrote John Maynard Keynes, “are more powerful than is commonly understood. Indeed the world is ruled by little else.” Keynes was wise to include the phrase, “both when they are right and when they are wrong.” Unfortunately, it’s [...]
1Jan2002 | Lawrence W. Reed | 1 comment | ContinuedHarmful Tax Practices?
David Laband teaches economics at the Forest Policy Center, School of Forestry and Wildlife Sciences, Auburn University. The Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD), a Paris-based group of 29 governments (including the U.S. government) is demonizing tax havens around the world. Consider this statement from a recent OECD report: “Harmful tax practices may exist [...]
1Oct2000 | David N. Laband | 3 comments | ContinuedThe Right of Resistance
Many politicians talk as if citizens were obliged both to revere and obey their government. But there are few things more dangerous than swallowing the notion that government is entitled to boundless obedience from the people under its power. Throughout history, governments have occasionally overstepped the bounds of their legitimate power. What should be done [...]
1Aug2000 | James Bovard | 3 comments | ContinuedIt Can’t Happen Here?
The magician’s most potent power is misdirection: by making his audience think that it should look over there, he’s able to get away with some rather simple trickery over here. Using that mundane power, magicians have been able to pull off some amazing feats. So have people in government. Houdini himself might envy their facility [...]
1Aug2000 | Sheldon Richman | 0 comments | ContinuedTrue False Consciousness
A few years ago I listened to a professor from a prestigious law school speak on the modern economy. This learned scholar was baffled that people voluntarily shop at Wal-Mart and Home Depot. He asked: “Why do so many people patronize large, impersonal retailers who destroy downtowns and sell goods that destroy the human spirit? [...]
1Aug1999 | Donald J. Boudreaux | 5 comments | ContinuedGullible Skeptics
“. . . the reason why liberty, of which we Americans talk so much, is a good thing is that it means leaving people to live out their own lives in their own way, while we do the same. If we believe in liberty, as an American principle, why do we not stand by it?” [...]
1May1999 | Thomas Szasz | 1 comment | ContinuedHigher Superstition: The Academic Left and Its Quarrels with Science by Paul R. Gross and Norman Levitt
Johns Hopkins University Press • 1997 • 314 pages • $35.95 cloth; $16.95 paperback Thomas Bertonneau is the author of Declining Standards at Michigan Public Universities and teaches literature at Central Michigan University. Richard Cutler is president of the Michigan Association of Scholars and a former vice president of the University of Michigan. Science, along [...]
1Feb1999 | and Thomas F. Bertonneau | 0 comments | ContinuedGertrude B. Kelly: A Forgotten Feminist
Contemporary feminism’s preoccupation with its collectivist past has served to silence the voices of early individualist women. A perfect example is Dr. Gertrude B. Kelly (1862–1934), whose contributions to women’s rights are long forgotten. Like most early individualist feminists, Kelly insisted that individual autonomy and responsibility constituted the building blocks of social order and cooperation, [...]
1Oct1998 | Wendy McElroy | 0 comments | Continued-
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