Monthly Archives: September 2012

Unlimited Democracy Tibor R. Machan The Magna Carta was an early attempt to rein in government, reduce the scope of monarchical rule. Constitutional monarchy was the result in many countries. When democracies replaced monarchies, the urgency to limit their scope … Continue reading →

“Asking” versus forcing folks to pay a little bit more! Tibor R. Machan President Obama raised the issue of why anyone would object to asking the very rich “to give some more.” As he put the matter, “What is wrong … Continue reading →

American Exceptionalism Revisited Tibor R. Machan A fairly prominent perception across the globe is that America has had certain exceptional features. While these are mixed in with various traditional ones, they still manage — or have managed — to make … Continue reading →

Frankness About Wealth Redistribution Tibor R. Machan When taxation is part of government, wealth redistribution goes hand in hand with it. Taxation was what feudal systems used so as to pay rent to the monarchy. The monarch, after all, used … Continue reading →

Some Past Reflections on America Tibor R. Machan Mitt Romney might have made reference to some of the ideas of Alexis de Tocqueville and shamed his critics into attempting to ridicule or denounce these. I am surprised no one prominent … Continue reading →

Why So Thin Skinned? Tibor R. Machan I really don’t get why so many Muslims are so thin skinned. Nearly everyone has experienced ridicule, verbal abuse, what have you, yet in my experience hardly anyone who has strikes out at … Continue reading →

A Very Brief Comment on the Benghazi Murders TIbor R. Machan The fact that objectionable material published on the web is invoked to justify murder shows the sad state of affairs in Benghazi and elsewhere in the region. An expression … Continue reading →

Dworkin’s Plain Statism Tibor R. Machan As is usually the case, The New York Review of Books gives ample room to some Leftist jurists, like Professors David Cole or Ronald Dworkin, to provide the politically correct commentary on a major … Continue reading →

Jobs in a Free Country Tibor R. Machan∗ *R. C. Hoiles Chair in Business Ethics and Free Enterprise, Argyros School of Business & Economics, Chapman University, Orange  CA  92866. I. The Myth of Job Security From naïve cinematic sentiment to … Continue reading →

Phony Intimacy Tibor R. Machan Mrs. Obama was praised for reporting in her speech at the Democratic National Convention that President Obama takes his mission to be a personal one, that he treats the citizenry intimately, attending to the private … Continue reading →