Calls for “Government-Business cooperation” to run the economy should be seen as skeptically as calls for “Government-Religion cooperation” to manage our minds and souls.
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Políticas Violentas – La Lección de la Filosofía Marxista Por Stephen R. C. Hicks, Ph.D. Tanta brutalidad ha surgido de activistas inspirados en Marx. Podríamos pensar que es solo un subproducto accidental de una teoría bien intencionada. ¿O es realmente una consecuencia necesaria e intencional de sus principios? Traducido al Español por Fermin Elizalde, 2020.
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An ethics question: Suppose that you’re part of an organization that: (1) spends other people’s money, (2) which is taken from them by threat of force. Further, (3) your organization hasn’t produced a balanced budget for decades, and (4) it uses accounting techniques that would send most people to jail. Now the question: What is
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Better described as parents eating their children. David Hume: [O]ur modern expedient, which has become very general, is to mortgage the public revenues, and to trust that posterity will pay off the incumbrances contracted by their ancestors: And they, having before their eyes, so good an example of their wise fathers, have the same prudent
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In his final days in office, President Obama commuted the prison sentence of Chelsea Manning. While in the employ of the US Army, Manning had downloaded tens of thousands of government documents and passed them on to Wikileaks. Among the leaked documents were many State Department cables, reports on incidents during the wars in Iraq
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[Re-posted from TRI.] A protester was shot at the University of Washington during a clash between rival factions — one faction physically blocking an audience from hearing a speech, the other faction seeking to hear a rabble-rousing orator. The orator was Milo Yiannopoulos, a leading spokesman for the alt-right movement, a revitalized and muscularized version of nationalist
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My short article “Bootleggers, Baptists, and The Jones Act” was published as part of the Political Ethics series at the Berens Foundation’s site. “Suppose that a freak Atlantic storm pummels the city of Boston, leaving it flooded for days and cut off from services by land and air — trucks cannot reach it and planes
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My primer on Political Ethics was published as a white paper at the Berens Foundation site. Each of the 22 sections of about 500 words discusses the essential rights and responsibilities of a major participant in the political process or explicates a key ethics concept in politics. Ethics for a Democratic Republic Table of Contents:
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