All Posts Tagged With: "torture"
Libertarianism and Torture
Torture destroys everyone and everything decent it touches, including the torturer’s humanity.
10May2011 | Wendy McElroy | 47 comments | ContinuedThe Shame of Medicine: The Depravity of Psychiatry
Psychiatrists alternately deny and delight in possessing special professional skill at detecting future “dangerousness” that entitles them to the special power to incarcerate individuals they so stigmatize in prisons that masquerade as hospitals. The American legal system makes heavy use of psychiatric determinations of dangerousness, as a result of which vast numbers of Americans are deprived of liberty and, at the same time, of opportunity to demonstrate the injustice of their detention. Examples abound.
17Jun2009 | Thomas Szasz | 12 comments | ContinuedTorture and Liberty
Is torture compatible with liberty? Unfortunately, this is no longer a hypothetical question. Many Americans who claim to support individual freedom also favor permitting the government to torture suspected terrorists or other purported enemies of the United States. This controversy is reminiscent of a disagreement between the famous economists F. A. Hayek and John Maynard [...]
1Jul2008 | James Bovard | 0 comments | ContinuedAlways Think of Incentives
While visiting FEE a few years ago, I was lucky enough to hear a talk by the “armchair economist,” Professor Steven Landsburg. In it he remarked that most of economics could be summarized in just two sentences: “Resources are scarce” and “People respond to incentives.” These two apparently simple and obvious observations are in fact [...]
1Oct2006 | Stephen Davies | 2 comments | ContinuedNothing to Learn from the Antifederalists? It Just Ain’t So!
Joseph Stromberg is a historian and freelance writer. According to Paul Greenberg, writing in the Washington Times in late January, the dreaded Antifederalists and their Articles of Confederation are making a comeback. In particular, these miscreants dare to question executive power. He writes with patriotic horror—a horror that assumes as self-evident a partisan reading of [...]
1Jun2006 | Joseph R. Stromberg | 22 comments | ContinuedPsychiatry in a Communist Utopia
Miguel Faria, Jr., M.D., is editor-in-chief of the Medical Sentinel, published by the Association of American Physicians and Surgeons, and author of Medical Warrior: Fighting Corporate Socialized Medicine. I recently read a book that should shock freedom-loving and civil-liberty-loving readers, even the libertarians, Objectivists, and Americans of other political persuasions who (thanks to Dr. Thomas [...]
1Nov2000 | Miguel A. Faria Jr. | 1 comment | ContinuedVisiting the Killing Fields
Phnom Penh, Cambodia—The white monument juts up 40 feet or so, dominating the surrounding fields and trees. From a distance it looks like it could commemorate most anything—a military victory, important statesman, or historical event. But this monument is different. It is filled with skulls.
1Aug2000 | Doug Bandow | 0 comments | Continued-
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