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2208c58 Why does she [Borowski] rail against other women's choices? Surely a core libertarian value is neutrality between different conceptions of the good?" Actually, no. I replied: "The core libertarian value is nonaggression. 'Neutrality between different conceptions of the good' has nothing to do with libertarianism. If you were truly neutral between different conceptions of the good, you wouldn't be arguing against Julie's conception of the go.. Thomas E. Woods Jr.
bb726a8 Less extreme leftists have been no less enthusiastic for war's potential to transform the home front, Nisbet added. Leftist intellectuals were practically unanimous in favoring U.S. entry into World War I since they understood the opportunity it presented for institutional change at home. Wartime economic planning, they were convinced, would help to erode Americans' conservative beliefs in the limits of government and the inviolability of p.. Thomas E. Woods Jr.
b29459b stock market as measured by the Dow did decrease 25% between 1969 and 1971 Thomas E. Woods Jr.
1e96c20 The biggest anachronism, usually, in a historical movie is, again, the author doesn't want to be thought to in any way share the social conventions or whatever of the time, so there's always this auctorial alter ego. So you have a movie set in the 1830s where you'll have a female character who has the attitudes of a twenty-first-century screenwriter. And that to me is a true anachronism. Thomas E. Woods Jr.
a06780b To be attacked by a Gore Vidal, or an H.L. Mencken, one of the great wordsmiths of American criticism, while surely unpleasant, must have been oddly exhilarating for the poor souls on the receiving end. I, on the other hand, have the more dubious and prosaic distinction of being a regular target of Ian Millhiser. Thomas E. Woods Jr.
2ff600f About fifteen years ago a conservative columnist wrote that Americans are faced with a choice between the Stupid Party and the Evil Party. And that once in a while the two parties get together and do something that's both stupid and evil, and that's called bipartisanship. Thomas E. Woods Jr.
614c02b Caplan writes: My study of personality psychology makes me one of the doubters. On the popular Myers-Briggs personality test, there is a huge Thinking-Feeling gap between men and women. For men, the breakdown is roughly 60% Thinking, 40% Feeling. For women, the breakdown is roughly 30% Thinking, 70% Feeling. Thomas E. Woods Jr.
01b572c in all of the world of Islam, the masses now regard the United States as their arrogant adversary; Thomas E. Woods Jr.
539785d imperialism has always been something of a losing proposition, especially in the modern international system, and our ruling class's attempt to nation-build the world in their own image is doomed to failure and to creating one disaster after another.... Thomas E. Woods Jr.
07ae9b9 Unchecked power is an invitation to tyranny. Thomas E. Woods Jr.
1c7b6f7 Of all the misapplications of the word "conservative" in recent memory, Nisbet wrote in the 1980s, the "most amusing, in an historical light, is surely the application of 'conservative' to...great increases in military expenditures.... For in America throughout the twentieth century, and including four substantial wars abroad, conservatives had been steadfastly the voices of non-inflationary military budgets, and of an emphasis on trade in .. Thomas E. Woods Jr.
275e926 Vitoria and his allies believed that natural law existed not just among Christians but among all peoples. Thomas E. Woods Jr.
6f36800 But it would be about tolerating dissent. Now, movies or plays, pieces of art about dissent, they always, I think, flatter the author and they flatter the audience. WOODS: Yeah. KAUFFMAN: Because, of course, all right-thinking people are on the side of the dissenter. WOODS: Right. KAUFFMAN: You know, who is being persecuted by the narrow-minded peasants, or the clerics who deny that the Earth is round, or that it orbits the sun, or .. Thomas E. Woods Jr.
db69969 It is only with government help--in the form of subsidies, restrictions on potential rivals, and the like--that business can "exploit" the public in any meaningful sense. That" Thomas E. Woods Jr.
cf5d4b0 we must listen to the very limits of human knowledge and only when this utterly breaks down should we refer things to God."45 William" Thomas E. Woods Jr.
cfcac77 Persecutions of witches, erroneously associated with the Middle Ages, became widespread only during the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries. Thomas E. Woods Jr.
15e16da The Far Right is less interested in Burkean immunities from government power than it is in putting a maximum of governmental power in the hands of those who can be trusted. It is control of power, not diminution of power, that ranks high. Thus when Reagan was elected conservatives hoped for the quick abolition of such government 'monstrosities' as the Department of Energy, the Department of Education, and the two National Endowments of the .. Thomas E. Woods Jr.
2510567 Republicans throughout the twentieth century have been advocates of prudence and restraint in the conduct of foreign affairs. Thomas E. Woods Jr.
34a2d73 Leftist intellectuals were practically unanimous in favoring U.S. entry into World War I since they understood the opportunity it presented for institutional change at home. Wartime economic planning, they were convinced, would help to erode Americans' conservative beliefs in the limits of government and the inviolability of private property. Thomas E. Woods Jr.
5a09eb7 It's one thing to describe someone as a voice crying in the wilderness, but that doesn't quite capture Laurence Vance and his work. Vance is a voice crying in a soundproof sarcophagus on the moon. Thomas E. Woods Jr.
607f68e A conservative recognizes a hierarchy of concerns: I owe my children, my neighbors, and my co-religionists much more than I owe anyone in Iraq or anywhere else. Cicero, like so many figures in our classical past, held that "the union and fellowship of men will be best preserved if each receives from us the more kindness in proportion as he is more closely connected with us." The Bible confirms the wisdom of the ancients, instructing us that.. Thomas E. Woods Jr.
ccd2565 cradle to the grave. In fact, though, a major study released in May 2002 by the Swedish Institute of Trade (HUI) decisively punctured the myth of welfare-state "prosperity" in Sweden: by the end of the 1990s, Sweden's median income was $26,800, compared to $39,400 in the United States. More to the point, the HUI economists specifically pointed out: "Black people, who have the lowest income in the United States, now have a higher standard of.. Thomas E. Woods Jr.
08dda25 Madison wrote in Federalist #41, "For what purpose could the enumeration of particulars be inserted, if these and all others were meant to be included in the preceding general power?" In 1792, he said: If Congress can employ money indefinitely to the general welfare, and are the sole and supreme judges of the general welfare, they may take the care of religion into their own hands; they may appoint teachers in every state, county, and paris.. Thomas E. Woods Jr.
7d01440 Emin's My Bed, which was nominated for the prestigious Turner Prize, consisted of an unmade bed complete with bottles of vodka, used prophylactics, and bloodied undergarments. While on display at the Tate Gallery in 1999, the bed was vandalized by two nude men who proceeded to jump on it and drink the vodka. The world of modern art being what it is, everyone at the gallery applauded, assuming that the vandalism was part of the show. Emin is.. Thomas E. Woods Jr.
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