Experimental artist and writer Boyd Rice is often identified as a social darwinist or fascist. His recent collection, NO, with short entries on various subjects resists such simplistic feel-good accusations. If there is one common thread in this collection, it … Continue reading
Libertarians spend a non-trivial amount of time arguing for the obvious. At best, such arguments are redundant because there is no widespread believe that violence or threats of violence are a good thing. At worst, these debates hurt the prospects … Continue reading
Writing for the Wall Street Journal, Theodore Dalrymple (Anthony Daniels) makes the following observation: When the supposed right to health care is widely recognized, as in the United Kingdom, it tends to reduce moral imagination. Whenever I deny the existence … Continue reading
To understand the background of the recent debates on health care it is instructive to look at how this issue is being approached in “progressive” states like Oregon. Last year a Constitutional Amendment was discussed which would declare access to … Continue reading
John Gray reviews Dominic Raab’s The Assault on Liberty: What went Wrong with Rights and makes an important observation: Ironically, while he astutely criticizes the rise of a legalistic culture of rights, Raab seems to believe we can extricate ourselves … Continue reading