National Review- George Floyd Square Businesses Sue City of Minneapolis for Allowing Rampant Crime, Driving away Customers November 29, 2023The businesses, all of which are owned by one family, are seeking more than $1.5 million in damages from the city.
- Pope Francis Punishes Conservative Critic Cardinal Burke, Revokes His Apartment, Salary November 29, 2023Burke has criticized the Pope’s efforts to relax restrictions around gender and sexuality.
- Senior CIA Official Shared Pro-Palestinian Facebook Images after Brutal Hamas Attack November 29, 2023McFadden holds one of the senior-most positions within the agency and previously oversaw the production of the presidential daily briefing.
- New Georgia Project’s Vaunted Turnout Operation in Doubt amid Financial-Mismanagement Allegations November 29, 2023Founded by Stacey Abrams, the group claims credit for registering tens of thousands of voters, but a recent report suggests its heyday is over.
- U.S. Suicides Reached Record High Last Year November 29, 2023The increase in suicides was largely driven by older Americans, specifically older men.
- George Floyd Square Businesses Sue City of Minneapolis for Allowing Rampant Crime, Driving away Customers November 29, 2023
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- Why Does the Intersectional Left Defend Hamas? November 28, 2023Sectarian morality arises from the concept of collective guilt.Julian Adorney
- Victim Blaming Revisited November 28, 2023Exploring biases and criticisms in the perception of crime victims, from robbery to rape.Richard B. Felson
- The Heckler’s Veto and the Right to Free Association November 27, 2023It's not just a matter of weighing up one group’s free speech against another group’s counter-speech. It’s also about one group’s freedom of association being impeded.Holly Lawford-Smith
- Why Does the Intersectional Left Defend Hamas? November 28, 2023
- Jay Nordlinger
- Cuts and Controversies November 29, 2023On Maria Callas, the centennial of whose birth is marked on December 2, 2023.
- Maria Callas: More Than a Myth November 29, 2023On the great soprano (1923–77) on the occasion of her centennial.
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Category Archives: Political Philosophy
The West and its Enemies
With the Israelis still sifting through the rubble looking for victims of Hamas’s savage attack, the global left has responded by backing the Hamas killers. In so doing they have stepped out from behind the mask to show their true … Continue reading
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Socialist Destructionism
Ludwig von Mises, a founder of the Austrian School of Economics served as a professor of economics at New York University from 1945 through 1969. He was a towering intellect who was influenced by and associated with some of the … Continue reading
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Tagged DiLorenzo, Frankfurt School, Herbert Marcuse, libertarian, Marx, Mises, Socialist Destruction, utopian socialism
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Is Voting Rational?
See the video below by the editor-in-chief of Reason Magazine, Katherine Mangu-Ward. JFB
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Tagged Biden, policy, Reason Magazine, Trump, Voting
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Progressive Fascism
“Everything in the State, nothing outside the State, nothing against the State.” Benito Mussolini “State intervention in economic production arises only when private initiative is lacking or insufficient, or when the political interests of the State are involved. This intervention … Continue reading
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Tagged Bill of Rights, classic Liberalism, control, Fascism, liberty, Mussolini, Nancy Pelosi, policy, politics, Progressive
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On Iran
In the aftermath of the strike ordered by President Trump that killed Iranian Quds Force Major General Soleimani there has been a furious reaction by progressives who are always furious about something. But complaints have also been registered by the … Continue reading
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Tagged assassination, Iran, Iraq, Middle East, Quds, Soleimani, Trump
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Christopher Hitchens on Reparations
Christopher Hitches was a writer and polemicist with extraordinary talents who, in December of 2011, died much too early at age 62. An iconoclast throughout his adult life, Hitchens eventually drifted away from the left — early on he was … Continue reading
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The Authoritarians of the Left
“If you cannot convince a Fascist, acquaint his head with the pavement.” ~ Leon Trotsky “In a stark video showing what appeared to be an assault, a man was shoved and punched in the face at UC Berkeley this week … Continue reading
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Freedom Matters
“We fight to be free.” George Washington “Freedom’s just another word for nothing left to lose” Me and Bobby McGee, written by Kris Kristofferson, made famous by Janis Joplin in her “Pearls” album. Judging from the adulation that … Continue reading
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SCOTUS Watch
The Federalist Society, scourge of the “living Constitution” and defender of liberty, provided in 2016 a list of 25 candidates it preferred as nominees for the Supreme Court. Whereupon candidate Trump announced, with a lot of fanfare and a little … Continue reading
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