Politics & Rights
Philosophy, Politics & Rights
Religion vs. Free Speech
Craig Biddle May 20, 2006
Demonstrates that the tenets of religion are incompatible with the right to free speech, and shows why those who want to establish and maintain freedom of speech must repudiate religion and embrace the rational, secular foundation for rights.
History, Politics & Rights
William Tecumseh Sherman and the Moral Impetus for Victory
John David Lewis May 20, 2006
Presents the essential history of Sherman’s march, showing how Sherman developed and implemented his ideas that lead to the North’s victory in the Civil War, and drawing the moral lessons we can learn from this great man about how to properly approach and quickly defeat enemies of freedom.
Philosophy, Politics & Rights
Welcome, Ayaan Hirsi Ali
Larry Salzman May 18, 2006
Ayaan Hirsi Ali is among the most courageous women (and incidentally among the most beautiful) in the world today. She sought asylum in the Netherlands in 1992 as an escape from an arranged marriage brokered in her native Somalia. When established in Holland she was shocked to find the same…
Economics, Politics & Rights
The Little Dictators
John David Lewis May 15, 2006
America is the land in which productive individuals were largely set free of the coercive power of the government. The result was the most prosperous nation the world has ever seen. But, over the past two generations, our freedom has been subordinated, in myriad ways, to the "Little Dictators" among…
Politics & Rights
A Victory for 'Abstract Concepts of Personal Autonomy'
Larry Salzman May 13, 2006
About a week ago the United States Court of Appeals for the DC Circuit told a lower court that it was wrong to dismiss out of hand and must reconsider a claim "whether the Due Process Clause [of the U.S. Constitution] protects the right of terminally ill patients to decide,…
Philosophy, Politics & Rights
Tribute to Iran
John David Lewis May 12, 2006
The High Muckety-Muck (HMM) of Iran sent President Bush an 18 page letter this week, doubtless with very tiny writing, in which he wrote: Liberalism and Western style democracy have not been able to help realize the ideals of humanity. Today these two concepts have failed. Those with insight can…
History, Philosophy, Politics & Rights
Faith and The Founders
Alan Germani May 11, 2006
There is a widespread and dangerous misconception that the United States was founded as a Christian nation. As religious fundamentalism increases today, so does the likelihood that faith-based laws will be enacted and enforced by our government. Items on the agenda of faith-wielding politicians—who are increasingly pushing for rule by…
Philosophy, Politics & Rights
The Social Worker and The President
John David Lewis May 10, 2006
A social worker recently told me why I should support government programs that bring money to people in need. Isn't it good, she asked, to live in town that is prosperous, with neighbors who are not desperate for the basics of life? By giving to them, I make my own…
Politics & Rights
“Just War Theory” vs. American Self-Defense
Presents the principles of “Just War Theory”—the disastrous, altruistic theory underlying and guiding the Bush administration’s so-called “War on Terrorism”—and contrasts them with the principles of a proper, egoistic approach to American self-defense.