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Write up the bill and title it the 'No Patient Left Behind Act'. The right should have no problem falling in line, much as it did with education, with the further nationalization of an entire industry.
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Why is it that when we study history, so much of it is recounting a succession of rulers and wars: that is, political history? As a liberal, I believe the state is predominantly an agent of violence. And wars are obviously violent. So looked at that way, the common conception of history seems to be a...
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A child is a potential man. Man is characterized by the fact that he acts and that he has morality. To act is to behave with purpose: using reason to willfully choose between alternative means toward ends. Morality is a set of feelings which constrain action. Newborn infants do not act; their behaviors...
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What is the point of all this formal learning we expect schoolchildren to do: the endless assignments and tests? One stock answer to this question is that it teaches them how to get things done. That would obviously be learned better in the real world than in school. The somewhat more plausible answer...
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We as a society have abdicated parenthood. We have handed parenthood over to the state. The prime responsibility of raising children to become decent, humane, and successful adults has been given over to state schools. Kids' lives are dominated by school. They spend about 6 hours a day at school...
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I recently taught a workshop about brains for a group of 24 5th graders. First I wrote on the board, “What does the brain do?” The students dutifully enumerated the standard list: controls your movements, thinks, feels emotion, controls your heartbeat, controls your body temperature; obviously...
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Modern schooling has served to cripple the intellectual lives of every generation since its inception. In schools, children are herded and harrangued into completing academic chores. These chores are usually utterly mindless, pointless, forgettable, boring, harrowing, or some combination of the above...
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Liberty Lost? Or To What Extent Have the United States of America Become Collectivist To The Detriment of Individualism? This dissertation charts the changes throughout history in the balance between collectivism and individualism in United States federal government policy. It is argued that collectivism...
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In the context of a review of the focus on "creationism" that Alaska governor Sarah Palin has injected in the presidential election, Christopher Caldwell , a senior editor at The Weekly Standard , has attempted to explain (in The Financial Times , oddly enough) to his readers in the UK the...
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One thing that is often misinterpreted is that certain institutions get their prestige because of what they produce. Although this has at times in the past been true, it is not to be automatically assumed at this point in American history. Many of the United States best known universities are not prestigious...
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My position on racial discrimination and segregation is essentially based on the following premises: (1) on a personal level, I'm opposed to racism (2) however, if an individual legitimately owns a given piece of property, they have the liberty to exclude other people from using that property (3...
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By no means is finding someone to espouse the greatness of universal literacy a chore, especially among politicians. Yet for all of their pandering, these very politicians would never desire for people to be literate on one subject matter: government itself. If the public were ever clued into the innerworkings...
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Filed under: education, government, private roads, ignorance, american history, frederic bastiat, the law, parking laws, propaganda, public roads, butler shaffer
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Within my study of technical communication I rarely encounter economic and philosophic ideas. But every once in a while some come along, especially because the current topic in my lone rhetoric class is laissez faire capitalism. So here are a few I encountered today. Copyright laws, or intellectual property...
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Filed under: education, anarchism, adam smith, andrew carnegie, value, anarcho-capitalism, intellectual property, capitalism, ludwig von mises, copyright, labor theory of value, wealth, just wages, labor, schooling
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Foreward note: inspired in part by "The Politics of Obedience: The Discourse on Voluntary Servitude" by Eteinne De La Boetie . How the State Thrives How does the state maintain itself? It is true that to some extent all states initially derive from conquest through devices such as war and land...
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Sat, Dec 15 2007
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Filed under: Competition, Collusion, Education, Agorism, Social Evolution, Big Media, Interventionism, Revolution, Patronage, Entropy, Civil Disobedience, Propaganda, Intellectualism
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Two Ohio legislators are proposing a law that would ban corporal punishment in public schools. Ignore all the issues revolving around the evils of public education and the practice of corporal punishment, instead let's focus on who is proposing the law v. who must obey it. In Ohio during the 1990's...