that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable rights, that among these are life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness. From today’s WSJ Blogs, Washington Wire Obama Brings the Pope a Letter from Kennedy Susan Davis reports on politics. White President Barack Obama hand-delivered a letter to Pope Benedict XVI from ailing Sen. [...]
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Socialism, why don’t we just let it fade away? It’s not even an old soldier.
July 5, 2009I have friends, family members, who continue to insist that Obama is a socialist. There seems to be absolutely nothing I can do or say that gets them onto another track of thinking (if calling anyone names —Obama, socialist, for example— can even be called thinking). There are just so many problems with this particular [...]
Limits of central government
June 28, 2009Standard theory views government as functional: a social need arises, and government, semi-automatically, springs up to fill that need. (see Murray Rothbard) Furthermore, and this is always true, whether or not the “need” is satisfactorily met by government action, the newly hired government employees will be the first (and sometimes the only ones) to benefit [...]
Mortimer Adler on Multiculturalism
June 28, 2009“The world, certainly, is multicultural, and so we should be taught about its cultural diversity. But this, it seems to me, is the time to ask whether society as a whole or its educational institutions should be multicultural in all respects, or only in some. If only in some, I propose that the word transculturalism [...]
Liberalism
June 27, 2009It’s much, much older than we thought. It doesn’t date to our own FDR nearly 100 years ago, nor to Rousseau, Voltaire and the other liberal thinkers of the French Enlightenment in the 18th. century, nor to John Locke’s Two Treatises of Government and his three Letters on Toleration, published between 1689 and 1692. In [...]
the American Dream
October 7, 2008For Adams, no theme was more important than what he called that American dream of a better, richer, and happier life for all our citizens of every rank, which is the greatest contribution we have made to the thought and welfare of the world. That dream or hope has been present from the start. Ever [...]
