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Showing posts with label socialism. Show all posts
Showing posts with label socialism. Show all posts
Monday, August 5, 2019

The Pence Doctrine

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I subscribe to Jim Rickards's Strategic Intelligence newsletter, which combines political with stock market intelligence. Rickards d...
Thursday, August 1, 2019

Socialism: An Infantile Disorder

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My last "Mitchell Langbert Moment"  for the Glazov Gang season, "Socialism: An Infantile Disorder," appears here . ...
Saturday, July 27, 2019

Program Idea for the Department of Education

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Dear Mr. President: The Department of Education should formulate two educational programs concerning socialism.   One would be addresse...
Saturday, April 20, 2019

Atlas Shrugged and the Decline of New York

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This past Tuesday I had to take my wife to her dentist in Manhattan, so I spent a little time walking around our old neighborhood, the Uppe...
Sunday, February 10, 2019

America, Land of the Social Security Check, Home of the Welfare Dependent

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I applied for Medicare on Friday.  I'm going to be 65 in roughly three months.  When I called the Social Security Agency (welcome to soc...
Tuesday, December 4, 2018

An Extra Credit Class Assignment

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I gave the following extra credit assignment to my classes.  I wonder whether Antifa, dumbed-down studies majors at universities around the ...
Wednesday, September 5, 2018

Prohibit Socialist rather than Racist Speech

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Since socialism has been more murderous than racism, pro-socialist speech  should be prohibited before pro-racist speech.  As evil and murde...
Tuesday, May 31, 2011

The Altruistic Fallacy

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I recently gave a talk at Brooklyn College's Faculty Day , a delightful annual event at Brooklyn College where about 100 of the faculty ...
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Monday, August 2, 2010

Nazi Austria Was What the Democrats Want for America

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I just received this essay from Sharad Karkhanis.  The author is an Austrian immigrant who lived through the Anschluss and the rise of Nazis...
Monday, May 17, 2010

Socialism In Extremis: Greek Economy, Newsweek Head for Hades

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In February 2009 Newsweek claimed that "we are all socialists now."  Prime Minister George Papandreou and the Greek government co...
Wednesday, April 7, 2010

Conservatism Is Socialism

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The appellation conservative ought not apply to Americans who believe in the Constitution or in liberty. The very word contradicts itself. T...
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Sunday, February 21, 2010

Mass Murder and the Socialist State of Mind

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Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn's Gulag Archipelago spurred me to libertarianism, but I had read another book about mass murder, Hannah Arendt...
Monday, February 1, 2010

Obama Outsources the Presidency

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Doug Ross's Larwyn's Lynx (see icon to right) carries a piece by Frank Miehle of northwest Montana's Daily Inter Lake in which...
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Monday, December 21, 2009

James Turk on Socialism

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James Turk has an excellent blog on Kitco . Turk suggests that the coming government debt crisis across Europe will trigger a reassessment ...
Friday, December 4, 2009

Question for Steve Forbes

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Sharon Gitelle of the Forbes Blog Network sent the following: Re: The Forbes Network: December 11th interactive call: Steve Forbes Dear Mitc...
Tuesday, October 27, 2009

Aristotle on Politically Correct Socialism of Ancient Crete

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There was no laissez faire capitalism or system of individual rights in the ancient world, but collectivism and socialism were common. He...
Monday, August 31, 2009

Work Is for Chumps

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In the nineteenth century Americans were taught to rely on themselves and to build a better mousetrap. Although we were much poorer then, pr...
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Thursday, August 13, 2009

National Health Insurance and Freedom

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Milton Friedman's Capitalism and Freedom argues that governmental control of economic resources eliminates personal freedom. In the Sov...
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Tuesday, June 2, 2009

Bertrand de Jouvenal on the Divorce Between Socialism in Theory and in Practice

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"Once it is admitted that Power may forswear its true reason and end, and as it were, detach itself from society to form far above it a...
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