Politics & Rights
Politics & Rights
Houston, We Have a (Zoning) Problem
J. Brian Phillips February 20, 2009
Demonstrates that Houston’s absence of zoning laws is largely responsible for the city’s relative health and prosperity, and urges Houstonians to halt and reverse the encroachments on their property rights before they find themselves zoned.
Politics & Rights, Science & Technology
Rational Science versus Sacrificial Politics
John David Lewis January 29, 2009
by John David Lewis and Paul Saunders The Obama administration continues to appoint radical environmentalists who want us to commit industrial suicide on behalf of nature. Meanwhile, top-rank scientists continue to renounce claims of a coming climate disaster. The latest scientist to voice his conclusions is retired senior NASA atmospheric…
Politics & Rights
Why Israel Attacked the Gaza
John David Lewis January 27, 2009
The "news" we have heard about the Israeli military action in the Gaza strip has often focused on the deaths of "civilians." This obfuscates the fact that the majority of casualties were Hamas warriors in civilian dress. When the Israelis retaliate, the press reports it as Israeli "aggression." Every dead…
Politics & Rights, Science & Technology
This is Your Future on 'Universal Healthcare'
Craig Biddle January 6, 2009
Paul Hsieh has an excellent op-ed titled “Universal healthcare and the waistline police” in the Jan 7 issue of the Christian Science Monitor. It begins: Imagine a country where the government regularly checks the waistlines of citizens over age 40. Anyone deemed too fat would be required to undergo diet…
Announcements, Politics & Rights
John David Lewis Speaking Twice in Israel
TOS Admin December 10, 2008
Who: John David Lewis, visiting associate professor of political science at Duke University What: A talk on "The Defeat of Islamic Totalitarianism: A Proper Policy," at the Facing Jihad Conference, in Jerusalem, Sunday, December 14, at 10:30 a.m. A talk on "Israel's Moral Right to Exist," at Tel Aviv University,…
Politics & Rights, Science & Technology
The Assault on Energy Producers
Brian P. Simpson November 20, 2008
Surveys various ways in which the government violates the rights of energy producers and thereby impedes our supply of energy and raises prices on everything in the marketplace.
Economics, Politics & Rights
Net Neutrality: Toward a Stupid Internet
Raymond C. Niles November 20, 2008
Focuses on the principle of property rights as it applies to the Internet in the face of increasing calls for government controls of this, as yet, relatively free market.
Philosophy, Politics & Rights
Reason or Faith: The Republican Alternative
John David Lewis November 20, 2008
Analyzes the resounding Republican defeat and shows that the party faces a fundamental decision that will determine whether it orchestrates a comeback or stumbles into further defeat.
Economics, Philosophy, Politics & Rights
Capitalism and the Moral High Ground
Craig Biddle November 20, 2008
Concretizes the selfishness-enabling nature of capitalism and shows why this feature makes it the only moral social system on earth.
Philosophy, Politics & Rights
On Loving America
John David Lewis October 27, 2008
One thing that is often implied, if not explicitly stated, in this election is that John McCain—like George Bush—really loves his country. Of course McCain makes mistakes in particular areas, but, according to this view, these are the forgivable errors of a true patriot. McCain's values and principles are fundamentally…