Tragic Capitalism
Capitalism, when it isn’t being used as a “dirty word” by “socialist democrats” (the correct rendering, and an oxymoron at that), simply entails three connected things: There is private ownership of...
View ArticleFree Markets and Democracy
I am not slavishly devoted to free markets. And I am deeply cynical about democracy as it is effected through electoral politics. But to almost everyone “democracy” is electoral democracy — and a “good...
View ArticleConservatism vs. “Libertarianism” and Leftism on the Moral Dimension
I said this recently: Conservatives rightly defend free markets because they exemplify the learning from trial and error that underlies the wisdom of voluntarily evolved social norms — norms that bind...
View Article“Democracy” Thrives in Darkness — And Liberty Withers
The title of this post alludes to a slogan adopted by The Washington Post (WaPo) in February 2017 to mark the paper’s membership in the anti-Trump chorus of “news” outlets. The idea, of course, is that...
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Our Miss Brooks
Some time back, Tom Smith referred to the NYT columnist and pseudo-conservative David Brooks as “prissy little Miss Brooks.” Smith’s recycling of the appellation has not diminished its satirical effect...
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Another Perspective on “Social Justice”
Here is a sample of Barry A. Liebling’s “Irreconcilable Differences,” from today’s edition of TCS Daily: [T]he assumption of the interventionist is that society and the state take precedence over the...
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