Monthly Archives: May 2013

Barbaric Conduct in London Tibor R. Machan The apparent murderer in London declared on a video that “The only reasons we killed this man … is because Muslims are dying daily,” he said in video aired by CNN affiliate ITN. … Continue reading →

Moral Bias at The New York Times Tibor R. Machan The headline said it all: “Confusion and Staff Troubles Rife at I.R.S. Office in Ohio.” No mention of mendacity, of evil, of meanness, of vice, Nada. For liberals their own … Continue reading →

My “I told you so world.” Tibor R. Machan So all of us who have long concluded that big government–which is to say, government with wide, nearly unlimited scope of power over the population it is supposed to serve–is a … Continue reading →

Why Free Will Matters Tibor R. Machan Let me once again quote George Orwell, who reportedly noted that “Sometimes the first duty of intelligent men is the restatement of the obvious.” The idea that without free will there can be … Continue reading →

Back to Basics Please Tibor R. Machan In today’s climate of political theatrics it isn’t very easy to figure out where right stands versus wrong. As Ron Paul points out at The Daily Bell, the Benghazi fiasco pretty much amounts … Continue reading →

A Precis on Humanism Tibor R. Machan In modern times humanism has been associated with Karl Marx and one of his teachers, Ludwig Feuerbach. The latter was an atheist who believed that it wasn’t God who created man but the … Continue reading →