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Author Archives: Jim
Deflating the Student Loan Bubble with Better Risk Management
The student loan market is broken again: too much student debt, too many defaults, and large write-offs pending as a result of income contingent repayment. Not that it was ever fixed, but it’s gonna blow again to hemorrhage real costs … Continue reading
Reply to Dishonest @NeilParille re: @YaronBrook on Immigration
Recently, Neil Parille started replying to tweets I had made, in which Parille criticized Yaron Brook regarding immigration. Given the number of his comments, it started to seem that I was being trolled, but it turns out that Parille has … Continue reading
Posted in Immigration, Political Discussions
Tagged Ed Powell, honesty, immigration, Neil Parille, Sense of Life Objectivists, Yaron Brook
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The Objectivist Conference (OCON) and Ideas for Living Life on Earth
In Ayn Rand’s novel Atlas Shrugged, the world’s hidden producers gathered for one month each summer and in part they traded the intellectual products that they had produced during the prior year. Similarly, Objectivists (those who study and apply Ayn … Continue reading
Posted in Economics, History, Political Discussions
Tagged Amesh Adalja, Andrew Berstein, Andrew Lewis, Atheism, Atlas Shrugged, Ayn Rand, Capitalism, Elan Journo, Eric Daniels, Gregory Salmieri, health care, Jihad, laissez-faire capitalism, objective law, Objectivism, OCON, patents, Peter Schwartz, Rituparna Basu, Robert Mayhew, Tara Smith, vaccination
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Reason and Rights Republicans? To Be or Not To Be; That is the Question
Recently, Ari Armstrong recommended joining the Republican Party as a Reason and Rights Republican, which he called the ONLY solution for participation in party politics. Armstrong is a serious thinker and experienced political activist. However, Selfish Citizenship disagrees with his … Continue reading
Posted in Election, History, Political Discussions, Uncategorized
Tagged American Capitalist Party, Andrew Berstein, Ari Armstrong, Dick Black, Donald Trump, Freedom Party, Gary Johnson, LBJ, Libertarian Party, Nicholas Provenzo, OCON, Paul McKeever, PRODOS, Republican Party, Robert Marshall, Robert Metz, Robert Vaugh
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Book Discussion: In Defense of Selfishness by Peter Schwartz
For an upcoming book discussion, I drafted the following announcement: “Every civilized culture is shaped by some view of right and wrong…In ours it is the principle of altruism…Our society takes as a given the idea that pursuing your own … Continue reading
Question 12: Should the Government Force a Man to Pay Child Support?
Recently, via the Leonard Peikoff podcast, Yaron Brook answered the question, “Should the Government Force a Man to Pay Child Support?” While I almost always agree with Dr. Brook, in this response, he got the answer wrong. In fairness to … Continue reading
Posted in The Courts
Tagged abortion, accidental pregnancy, birth control, causality, child support, choice, Diana Hsieh, Individual Rights, jiz, pregnancy, probability, risk, Saving Silverman, sex, unwanted pregnancy, vaginal sex, volition, Yaron Brook
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Book Discussion: Rooseveltcare – How Social Security is Sabotaging the Land of Self-Reliance by Don Watkins
For an upcoming book discussion, I drafted the following announcement: “ Social Security is immoral.” – Don Watkins Come and join us for a discussion of Don Watkins’ new book Rooseveltcare: How Social Security is Sabotaging the Land of Self-Reliance. … Continue reading
Question #11: What is the relationship between objective virtues and individual rights?
Normally, others ask a question and I answer; however, this time, I am asking the question above and only starting towards an answer, which I will chew through over time in future posts. Over the past several months, a couple … Continue reading
Democrats Kick Unemployed and Entry-level Workers When They Are Down
The Democrats are getting another woodie over raising the minimum wage. Everyone, other than those who are in a Karl Mannheim induced ideological coma or who remains mentally enthralled to the indoctrination they received from a publicly paid educrat, knows … Continue reading
Loving and Political Change for the Better
Living during the Orgy of Sacrifice, which constitutes the bipartisan political agenda of the past 30+ years in the US, losing hope for a better future can be easy, especially for younger citizens who have never known different circumstances. While … Continue reading
