Category Archives: Questions

Question 10: What is the DIM Hypothesis?

Posted on September 9, 2013 by

I have been participating in a book group this year; we are reading Leonard Peikoff’s new book The DIM Hypothesis: Why the Lights of the West are Going Out.  After having engaged is some rigorous chewing of the book with … Continue reading →

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Thanks for the cheap train ride…Suckers!

Posted on June 18, 2013 by

The other day a coworker asked me jokingly, “Soon you are going to have that shiny new public train running almost from your doorstep and straight to the office.  Don’t you feel bad that drivers on the parallel public toll … Continue reading →

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Is the Great Recession really over?

Posted on June 16, 2013 by

I did not realize that we are many years into President Obama’s economic boom times.  Reportedly, the Great Recession ended only a couple months after our President took office, but that must be former President Bush’s fault.  Yet, to me, … Continue reading →

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Should We Stop Letting Terrorist Attacks Scare Us?

Posted on April 17, 2013 by

Related to the bombings at the Boston Marathon, I read a recommendation that we Americans and the media should stop overplaying the significance of the attack as its casualty count is small compared to the violence that criminals commit everyday … Continue reading →

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Question #7: If we ‘privatize’ Social Security, what would happen to people that recklessly invest their retirement and lose it?

Posted on February 17, 2013 by

The following question comes from Reddit: If we ‘privatize’ Social Security, what would happen to people that recklessly invest their retirement and lose it? First, in the question, there is an unfounded premise about risk as in:  government control of … Continue reading →

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A Tale of Two Homeless Men

Posted on January 28, 2013 by

I posit a hypothesis regarding two homeless men and how they would be commonly viewed by the typical man on the street, as expressed by current government policy. These two men are the same in all observed respects except as … Continue reading →

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Question #6: Why is altruism bad?

Posted on January 7, 2013 by

Related to the post Thank LBJ and Altruism for Our Federal Deficit and Debt, the following question came via Reddit from a father raising his child to be an altruist:  “Why is altruism bad?” Sacrifice, and in particular self-sacrifice. I … Continue reading →

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