Philosophy and Methodology

Posner is — to the best of my knowledge — a magnanimous person with a genuine concern for the lives of millions of Americans, but his book, if heeded, will only exacerbate current conditions.

Now, under the influence of the antidiscrimination paradigm and "human rights" law, men are being told that their human dignity requires the enslavement of a woman who does not wish to provide them with a holiday tour.

The greatest economic charity is that which enables persons to become independent of alms and therefore most self-reliant and secure under freedom.

Although Aristotle, in the Greek tradition, scorned moneymaking and was scarcely a partisan of laissez-faire, he set forth a trenchant argument in

Being ill is not a phenomenon independent of conscious will and of psychic forces working in the subconscious.

Now, bread is baked by government.
And as might be expected,
Everything is well controlled;
The public well protected.

True, loaves cost a dollar each.
But our leaders do their best.
The selling price is half a cent.
(Taxes pay the rest!)

Liberty is an end unto itself, with prosperity as its positive externality.

What is necessary from people of all sides is refraining from initiating the use of force, no matter what the goal.

This is a comment on communism in general, on communists in the political establishment, and on Saul of Tarsus.

Even some of the big unions, the steel union, for example, now doubt the effectiveness of wage increases that run beyond productivity.