Philosophy

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An integration of the best ideas from classical liberalism and the American right, essentialized for clarity, consistency, and precision.

The gunman shot six people, four of them fatally. He likely would have shot and killed more. But Shaw put an end to the massacre. Is Shaw a hero? If so, why? If not, why not?

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“I’ve been preaching liberty as against coercion; I’ve been preaching capitalism as against socialism; and I’ve been preaching this doctrine in every form and with any excuse.” —Henry Hazlitt

D’Souza leaves the actual roots of the American left shrouded. And he paints conservatives as classical liberals. This is D’Souza’s big lie.

Rubin claims socialists aim to create a “perfect system”—which, he says, can’t be done because we’re “imperfect beings.” Ayn Rand has a few things to say about that.

If it’s cults the New York Post is rooting out, consider the nature of the cult to which William F. Buckley dedicated his life.

Frederick Douglass’s speech on the virtues of “men who are what they are, without the aid of any favoring conditions by which other men usually rise in the world and achieve great results.”

Examines the development of Douglass's view of what, in principle, an individual must do in order to live as a free, independent human being.