Tag Archives: Individual Rights

Question 12: Should the Government Force a Man to Pay Child Support?

Posted on March 8, 2015 by

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 →

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Question #11: What is the relationship between objective virtues and individual rights?

Posted on May 22, 2014 by

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 →

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Loving and Political Change for the Better

Posted on January 5, 2014 by

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 →

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ObamaCare’s Website: I Didn’t Build That (a confession)

Posted on November 3, 2013 by

Given recent news about the significant failures in ObamaCare’s website, I have a disclosure to make about my contribution to that event; literally, I shrugged.  Usually, I cannot discuss specifics about what I am doing professionally; but in this case, … Continue reading →

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Not Random Violence, but the Consequence of Ideas

Posted on August 25, 2013 by

Saturday, we saw a number of news reports on the interwebs about the murder of Delbert Belton, who fought at Okinawa, allegedly by two teenaged thugs. From these reports, we learned that robbery is bad, murder is bad, elderly combat … Continue reading →

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Question #2: Flame wars, why has our political debate become so nasty?

Posted on August 2, 2012 by

The following question has been popping up a lot recently, and it relates to the prior post on Angry Libertarians: Why has our political discourse become so uncivil? The idea that we should do something has been popularly replaced with … Continue reading →

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The Cult of Thrasymachus

Posted on July 17, 2012 by

In Plato’s Republic Socrates rhetorically dispatches the political doctrine of Thrasymachus, who asserted that justice is what is good for the strong.  Today, Thrasymachus’ thesis animates President Obama’s agenda and the very notion of American democracy.  Instead of Plato’s idealistic … Continue reading →

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