64 Articles tagged with: Civil Liberty

• Why Gun Rights Are Essential In a World of Uncertainty and Scarcity

  A common joke in the American gun community goes something like this:

  Q: Why do you carry a gun?

  A: Because carrying a cop is too heavy.

  This humorous quip should not detract from the fact that many individuals in the Unite… Read Article

• Panic Has Led to Government “Cures” That Are Worse Than the Disease, History Shows

  Anyone who’s seen the John Hughes movie Ferris Bueller's Day Off probably remembers the scene where Ferris’s economics teacher (Ben Stein) explains the Smoot-Hawley Tariff Act to a roomful of bored, sleeping students. The scene is brilliant fo… Read Article

• Why Wall Street Bankers and Federal Lawyers Hate Michael Milken

  Donald Trump’s recent pardon of Michael Milken, the so-called junk bond king, has brought out the usual suspects to denounce Milken. John Carroll, one of the federal prosecutors that secured Milken’s guilty plea (more on Carroll later) declare… Read Article

• The Violence in Charlottesville

  The vast majority of people in the United States have no interest whatsoever in street battles between the alt-right (better described today in more poignant terms) and the counter-protesters. Most people have normal problems like paying … Read Article

• The Objectivist Sabbath

  As with most people, my working schedule has been blurred. With colleagues in different time zones, 24/7 emails and texts, I can’t remember the last time I had an evening or weekend to myself—the traditional periods of respite.But the… Read Article

• The Classic Path to the Inevitable Result: Venezuela Succumbs to Dictatorship

  This week, the opposition forces in Venezuela are still in the streets, struggling with government forces, to protest last week’s lurch of Socialist President Nicolas Maduro’s government toward dictatorship. Thousands of people blocked the mai… Read Article

• Night of the Living DWEM

  1.       WE DEMAND the hiring of at least 10 additional tenure-track ethnic studies professors and a commitment to the retention of these professors, prioritizing underrepresented groups within the ethnic studies … Read Article

• Sharing Economy Failure and Prosperity

  Many “sharing economy” firms are in trouble! Venture capitalists have lost millions! It’s the beauty of capitalism, improving our lives. Yes, that’s right. I’m not being snarky. But over at Salon, Steven Hill is.

  In The New York Times,… Read Article

• Is America Socialist?

  If you use Social Security are you a socialist? All Americans use it. Is America socialist?

  Well, Social Security is a socialist program.

  But being forced to use a socialist program doesn’t make one a socialist. A socialist,… Read Article

• Secular Sharia Law in Indiana

  Americans cannot tell the difference between ethics and politics.

  The Indiana religious freedom law—now being amended, it appears—has exposed the American version of sharia: Americans want to require people to be moral.   Indiana's fre… Read Article

• Obama's NSA Speech: Levison Warned Us

  Edward Snowden will respond to President Obama’s statements on the NSA next week, Julian Assange says , but the Business Rights Center is releasing an 84-minute interview with his email provider, Ladar Levison —who closed Lavabit rather than… Read Article

• FBI Nominee James Comey and Civil Liberties: The Dark Side

  James Comey, who is widely said to have threatened resigning as Acting U.S. Attorney General rather than sign off on the Bush administration’s warrantless wiretapping, will reportedly soon be nominated to be the next Director of the FBI. Becau… Read Article

• Abortion

  Question: What is the Objectivist view on abortion and how would one defend this view?

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• Drug Prohibition, Prostitution, and Pornography

  Question: What is the Objectivist position on drug prohibition, prostitution law, and pornography law?

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• The Law in Wartime

  Our topic is the tradeoff between civil liberties and national security. So, let me begin by giving you a framework.

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• Civil Society Is Not Civil Defense

  November 19, 2001 -- On November 8, President George W. Bush proposed his own version of the "national service" plan that had been espoused two days earlier by Senators John McCain and Evan Bayh. The New York Times's headline read "… Read Article

• Support the Media's Right to be Disgusting

  February 1, 2001 -- "There is no right to do wrong." So Alan Keyes used to say during his presidential campaign. Apparently, he either did not grasp or did not care that freedom implies the right to do wrong, inasmuch as a person pe… Read Article

• Did Rand Paul Waffle on Civil Rights?

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• Honoring the Choice to Die

  April 2004 -- The controversy last year over whether to withdraw a feeding tube from a 39-year-old Florida woman with severe brain damage has thrust questions regarding end-of-life decisions into the limelight once again. That debate has been… Read Article

• Free Verse

  September 2004 -- As John Enright notes , there is a wealth of poetry about political and personal freedom. I thought Navigator's readers might enjoy hearing about a few more poems that they can search out.

  One of the first poems that peo… Read Article