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Economics
For Society to Thrive, the Rich Must Be Left
Alone:
March 3, 2006:
Dr. George Reisman refutes the myth
that income inequality is undesirable or represents a flaw in the
market. Dr. Reisman shows that the growth in the incomes of the
wealthy results in increased investment and the production of more and
better goods for everyone to enjoy-- while the growth of government
power and regulations curtails rises in people's standards of living.
Hayek's Plan for Private Money:
March 9, 2006:
Austrian economist Friedrich Hayek
offered a radical plan in 1978 to create a free market of competing
fiat currencies. Dr. Murphy explores this extremely controversial
proposal and endeavors to defend it against objections that miss the
point.
The Austrian Rejection of Indifference: The
Caplan-Callahan Debate:
March 9, 2006:
Austrian Economics rejects the notion
of indifference as irrelevant to praxeological analysis of human
behavior; the neoclassicist Bryan Caplan contested this view, and the
Austrian economist Gene Callahan responded to his arguments. G.
Stolyarov II provides a brief summary and analysis of this debate.
Filosofy
The Equivalency Fiction:
March 9, 2006:
No, not all cultures and religions
are created equal, writes Selwyn Duke. The moral relativism that
posits this equality is self-defeating; it leaves one no ability to
argue against bigotry and intolerance in other cultures-- especially
the culture of the Islamist fanatics, which threatens to deprive us of
our most basic liberties.
Literary Analysis
Cléante: Spokesman for a Rational Morality:
March 4, 2006:
Molière's play, Tartuffe,
immerses a prudent, rational, moral man-- Cléante-- in a menagerie of
unwarranted passions, mistaken ideas, willful self-deception, and the
deceitful manipulations of Tartuffe the imposter. G. Stolyarov II
writes of how Cléante uses a morality of reason-- founded on the law
of non-contradiction-- to resolve the situation.
Politics

Rewarding Murder:
March 8, 2006:
Fanatical Islamist clerics have
issued death warrants for the heroic Danish cartoonists who dared to
criticize their faith, but the West has been either silent or
apologetic in return; there has been no firm reaction against the
fanatics' savagery, writes Andre Zantonavitch. Unless the Western
world launches an active, forceful response against the barbarians,
they will only become ever more emboldened.
It Takes a Moral Mess to Know a Moral Mess:
March 9, 2006:
The Islamists and the governments of
Islamic countries are barbarians outside the realm of civilized
discourse, writes Dr. Edward Hudgins. They insist that any criticism
of their faith be banned-- thereby demanding that the West apologize
for not oppressing its citizens in the manner that Islamist
governments do.
CBS's Stem Cell Shenanigans:
March 9, 2006:
Michael Fumento exposes CBS's
fraudulent coverage of the stem cell issue; CBS has repeatedly lauded
the benefits of embryonic stem cell research, which has never yet
benefited a human being, while wholly ignoring the already existing
immense positive effects of adult stem research on human health.
More Than a Day on a Calendar:
March 9, 2006:
March 8 was International Women's
Day, a fitting time to remember the millions of women who died from
the horrific disease: malaria. Roy Innis explains how environmentalist
schemes have prevented effective treatments of malaria from reaching
African countries. Mr. Innis argues that the use of the pesticide DDT
in these treatments is imperative, contrary to environmentalist dogma.
The "Specter" of Condemnation Hangs Over All
Property:
March 9, 2006:
Tom DeWeese states his fears that the
Property Rights Protection Act-- Congress's reaction against the
Supreme Court's anti-liberty Kelo v. New London decision-- will
be stalled in the Senate, despite the ardent efforts of property
rights advocates. The reason? Senator Arlen Specter, who is
deliberately stalling the legislation in committee, due to his
advocacy of big government and friendship with the power-hungry U.S.
Conference of Mayors and National League of Cities.
"Today's scientists have substituted
mathematics for experiments, and they wander off through equation
after equation, and eventually build a structure which has no relation
to reality."
~ Nikola Tesla