The recent assassination of Charlie Kirk has focused attention on political violence. Ludwig von Mises, not surprisingly, understood that tying morality to politicized state helps create the climate where political violence is prevalent.
The recent assassination of Charlie Kirk has focused attention on political violence. Ludwig von Mises, not surprisingly, understood that tying morality to politicized state helps create the climate where political violence is prevalent.
Created to assure that newly-freed slaves would receive equal legal protection, the Fourteenth Amendment has come to dominate federal jurisprudence. This is not a good thing.
Created to assure that newly-freed slaves would receive equal legal protection, the Fourteenth Amendment has come to dominate federal jurisprudence.
Left-wing activists have tried to justify the recent light train murder in Charlotte and the assassination of Charlie Kirk, citing social justice narratives. But any narrative must be based both on truth and proportionality.
President Trump’s latest anti-broadcast media actions are portrayed in legacy media as being unprecedented. While they definitely are outrageous, they hardly are the first time presidents have used federal agencies to go after broadcast opposition.
Dr. David Gordon, in this week’s Friday Philosophy, takes on the Fourteenth Amendment, looking at David Benner’s critical study of this post-Civil War legal move by the Radical Republicans.
Henry David Thoreau is supposedly an American icon and his Walden an alleged work of genius. In truth, Thoreau was a fraud and his anti-capitalist screeds were intellectually and economically incoherent.
President Trump’s latest anti-broadcast media actions are portrayed in legacy media as being unprecedented. While they definitely are outrageous, they hardly are the first time presidents have used federal agencies to go after broadcast opposition.
The irony of the Jimmy Kimmel controversy is that he owed his spot at ABC precisely because his work was non-political. Unfortunately in modern America, professional clowns feel they must become political tools.
