Tag Archives: Statists

Plato Shrugs: ‘What is Communism Without The Spin?’

“Communism is the most well-known competitor to classical liberalism. As a result, it is no surprise that communism is demonized in classical liberal societies; people don’t want other people trying to drastically change their way of life. We like our … Continue reading

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Hoover Institution: Uncommon Knowledge- Peter Robison Interviewing Harvey Mansfield: The New Left on Campus

“Ivy League institutions as well as most colleges and universities in America today lean categorically to the left. Why? If academia cares so much about ethnic and gender diversity, why does it overlook intellectual diversity? Harvey Mansfield responds. He also … Continue reading

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The Washington Post: ‘Venezuela & Cuba: Partners in Repression’

Source:The Washington Post– the paper of record. You can also see this post at FRS FreeState, on WordPress. Just as Cuba has started to move away from Castro Marxism/authoritarianism and have opened up their economy and at least to a small … Continue reading

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TruthOut: Victoria Law: Public Prisons, Private Profits

Source:The New Democrat  If there is just one thing that shouldn’t be under for-profit companies, it would be prisons and other corrections facilities like jails. Let me amend that, the military, law enforcement and corrections. The idea that people can … Continue reading

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Salon: Magazize: Gabriel Arana: ‘Bill Maher’s Islam Silence: Why Canceling His Berkeley Speech is a Mistake’

Source:Salon Magazine– Real Time With Bill Maher. Source:The New Democrat “Talk-show host Bill Maher’s recent comments about Islam have set off a chorus of condemnations among activists and scholars on the left. Now they have students at liberal bastion University … Continue reading

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John Stossel: Illegal Everything

Source:The New Democrat  Gee I got a crazy idea. How about we outlaw the big government nanny state instead? Yeah from now on any legislature that votes for or passes big government nanny laws, they get charged with infringing on … Continue reading

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The American Mind: Charles Kessler Interviewing Dennis Prager: ‘The Religion of the Left’

Source:The New Democrat  Just to sort of point out the obvious. There is no one religion of the Left and Dennis Prager doesn’t seem to understand that because his idea of a leftist is essentially a Communist, or other some … Continue reading

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Mises Daily: Blog: Andrew Syrios: A Brief History of Progressivism: What is Progressivism?

Classical Progressive Mises Daily: Blog: Andrew Syrios: A Brief History of Progressivism What is a Progressive? It depends on what you mean and almost who you ask. But whatever a Progressive is, they aren’t Liberals unless the idea of what … Continue reading

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Learn Liberty: Alex Kreit: Don’t be a Victim: The Drug War & You

Source:The New Democrat  I guess Alex Kreit is saying that “we shouldn’t be a drug war victim unlike the millions of Americans who are already drug victims”. Since this wasteful authoritarian paternalistic bogus War on Drugs was created by the … Continue reading

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American Enterprise: Charles Murray: It’s Not Liberals That is the Problem, But Progressives

Source:The New Democrat  Charles Murray hit it on the head in his AEI article about liberalism and how that is different from today’s so-called progressivism. Even though even what is supposed to pass as progressivism today is really not progressivism … Continue reading

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