Friday, September 29, 2017

The major parties' heartfelt principles

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The New York Times reports that Republicans have abandoned one of their favorite talking points, namely, the deficit: “It’s a great talkin...
Wednesday, August 30, 2017

Someone actually wrote this: We need to nationalise Google, Facebook and Amazon.

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In The Guardian, Nick Srnicek writes , Ello’s rapid rise and fall is symptomatic of our contemporary digital world and the monopoly-style p...
Tuesday, June 20, 2017

Trademarks and free speech

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On the blog Above the Law, Joe Patrice writes about "the path that most defines the Roberts Court: the provisions of the Bill of Right...
Sunday, June 18, 2017

Someone actually wrote this: Is Pride Still for Queer People like Me?

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In today's New York Times, Krista Burton writes , Pride was a party, a huge gay party, and I had never been so excited to be invited, o...
Thursday, June 8, 2017

Where the LGBT movement can go right, and where it can go wrong

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In today's Washington Post, we read , Since 2001, there has been a clear and, apparently, irreversible, move toward more permissive, or...
Tuesday, May 23, 2017

Libertarian derangement syndrome

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One problem that I have encountered in discussing libertarianism is that while some people will hear me out and argue in good faith, my atte...
Sunday, April 30, 2017

Doublethink about majority rule

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Right-thinking people have long said that because markets are not self-regulating, they need regulation by government. When I asked how gove...