Monthly Archives: December 2010

Revisiting A Fruitful Idea about Morality Tibor R. Machan          As someone who often teaches the topic of ethics or morality in colleges and universities, I have noticed that most of my beginning students entertain conflicting positions about the subject.  … Continue reading →

The struggle–the long arc of advances in human liberty Tibor R. Machan Here is some good news: The march of liberty has so far proven to be generally unstoppable. Over the span of human history there have been periods during … Continue reading →

One SwallowTibor R. Machan Those who have paid a bit of attention to my writings on public policy probably know that I have always been an opponent of preemptive petty tyrannies of government regulations, the sort that force people to … Continue reading →

Krugman’s Trashy Debating Style Tibor R. Machan Looks like critics of the free market are at their whit’s end.  At least one of the most prominent of them clearly appears to be. Princeton economics professor and columnist for The New … Continue reading →

America Divided Tibor R. Machan For all its existence America has been torn between two political positions.  Originally the two were represented, mostly, by Alexander Hamilton and Thomas Jefferson, although neither was a simple partisan of the positions at issue … Continue reading →

A Stupid Analogy Tibor R. Machan Now that Judge Henry E. Hudson of the Virginia district court ruled that the Obama health care measure violates the U. S. Constitution by forcing people to make purchases they may not want to … Continue reading →

Coercion Betrays the Vice of Laziness Tibor R. Machan So many people who try to justify coercing others to part with their lives, time, resources and so forth claim that the goals to be served justify the coercion.  Indeed, one … Continue reading →

Getting Worked Up Tibor R. Machan One might very well be right to consider me an emotional person although this doesn’t mean I lose my mind while I am worked up about something.  Indeed, one result of being worked up … Continue reading →

Disgusting Rich Bashing Tibor R. Machan There are many welcome developments in America in our time, mainly in the media.  Certainly Judge Andrew Napolitano’s and John Stossel’s Fox Business Network TV programs are quite unprecedented in their principled libertarian commentaries. … Continue reading →

Law & Our DemocracyTibor R. Machan      One clear thing about the WikiLeaks affair is that outfits like The New York Times are showing their hypocrisy by failing to vigorously defend WikiLeaks’ Julian Assange’s actions.  Wasn’t it The Times that published … Continue reading →