Happy Tuesday, all!! I again apologize for not having this posted yesterday. Thank you Stephen! Socrates tells us that the unexamined life is not worth living; a natural corollary to this is that it behooves one to reexamine their positions … Continue reading
Land Reform is the Jason Voorhees of social planning: a bad idea that fails every generation yet refuses to die and stay dead. For thousands of years enthusiastic reformers have touted Land Reform as the solution to social ills. The … Continue reading
Don’t worry! It’s not Monday!!!! We had some delay with Stephen’s Monday post, so without further adieu……. With the hullabaloo surrounding recent revelations involving rather nefarious actions by the FBI in collusion with the Democrats, the news media outlets, and … Continue reading
What is it like to be a man? (Or woman, or child). A famous—or infamous—philosophy article wondered what was it like to be a bat, and found it impossible. Now, I mostly disagreed with that article, since I think we … Continue reading
An article by the very accomplished Arthur Brooks of the American Enterprise Institute angered me. (http://www.nationalreview.com/article/455831/american-poverty-root-cause-dignity-deficit}. Re-reading the article, I almost agree with all of it. I agree that poverty in today’s America is a moral problem, and that lifting … Continue reading
Tonight, President Trump (I still kinda can’t even) will make his first State of the Union speech. I think a few of us are hoping he’ll just read the memo and drop the mic, but we’ll see what happens. I’m … Continue reading
Happy Monday everyone!!! As always, Monday’s post comes to us from Stephen Hall. (I even remembered to change the author this time.) Have a great day everybody! Nearly everyone in America has for the past few years stared agape at … Continue reading
TGIF all you wonderful people!!! As you’ve probably heard by now, companies are handing out bonuses, giving out raises, etc., and noting the recent tax cuts as why they can. If you got paid this week, you may have noticed … Continue reading
You cannot drain The Swamp; where would you put it? Populist politicians the World over run on some version of ‘draining the swamp’, the famous metaphor popularized by Ronald Reagan. Populists of all stripes vow to not only kill a … Continue reading
Happy Monday to all you FRians! As always, Monday’s post was written by Stephen Hall. Thanks, Stephen!! There is a frequent objection wielded against libertarians by conservatives in the vein of liberals, which is really to say that liberals have … Continue reading
