Almost half of registered Democrats think the Constitution needs to be updated, according to the results of a new poll. A YouGov survey about the Constitution included a question of whether there should be another Constitutional convention to update the … Continue reading
Category: Daily Dose of Reason
It’s Risky Not to Take Risks!
Avoidance of risk is a major cause of personal problems.We hear a lot of talk about depression. What is depression? A lack of energy, motivation or purpose. What kills purpose? Very often, a habitual tendency to avoid risks. There’s actually … Continue reading
Bathrooms, North Carolina and the Forgotten Principle of Private Property
John Kasich says he wouldn’t have signed North Carolina’s so-called bathroom bill shielding businesses from anti-gay lawsuits and requiring transgender people to use restrooms corresponding to the sex on their birth certificates. In an interview aired on CBS News’ “Face … Continue reading
Long Live Economic Inequality!
Inequality, we have to keep in mind, is not the same thing as poverty. When people like Timothy Noah complain that “income distribution in the United States is now more unequal than in Uruguay, Nicaragua, Guyana, and Venezuela,” they act … Continue reading
There is No Such Thing as Duty (Ayn Rand)
In reality and in the Objectivist ethics, there is no such thing as “duty.” There is only choice and the full, clear recognition of a principle obscured by the notion of “duty”: the Law of Causality. The proper approach to … Continue reading
Black Lives Matter and the New American Outrage Society
While campaigning for his wife Hillary in Philadelphia on Thursday, Bill Clinton implored the Black Lives Matter movement to “tell the truth” by admitting that they defend people who kill other black people. The former president’s speech was being interrupted … Continue reading
Obama’s “Prosecutorial Discretion” = Soft Dictatorship
President Barack Obama says he has the power to allow illegal immigrants to be eligible for federal benefits through the guise of “prosecutorial discretion,” and that he will not enforce the law against them for being in the country, CNS … Continue reading
How Did the Cause of Liberty Become a Popcorn-Eating Netflix Series?
I am so sick of the presidential horse race. Who will acquire the most delegates in time for the Republican convention? Will the Republican donor elites seize control of the convention, or allow Ted Cruz or Donald Trump—whoever has the … Continue reading
“Academic Freedom” Is Not What Most Claim It Is
Conservative professor John McAdams is under threat of termination from liberal university president Michael Lovell of the Jesuit-run Marquette University. McAdams is not taking the threat lightly and has fired off a blistering letter to his boss. In the lengthy … Continue reading
The Facts (A. Conan Doyle)
“There is nothing more deceptive than an obvious fact.” — Arthur Conan Doyle
How to Disembowel Political Correctness
From “Retaking America: Crushing Political Correctness” by Nick Adams: Political correctness is an ideology invented by the Left, because although Leftism considers itself intellectual, it really is about emotion. It’s about feelings. Three engines propel political correctness forward: the ideological … Continue reading
It’s Not “Conservative” to Advocate Real Capitalism (Ayn Rand)
Capitalism is not the system of the past; it is the system of the future—if mankind is to have a future. Those who wish to fight for it, must discard the title of “conservatives.” “Conservatism” has always been a misleading … Continue reading