April 30, 1967, Riverside Church, New York https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zyE4eo_leX8 The sermon which I am preaching this morning in a sense is not the usual kind of sermon, but it is a sermon and an important subject, nevertheless, because the issue that I will be...
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The Future Of Civilization Depends On Libertarian Morality
The header image for this article comes from a mural featured at the library of the University of Oregon. It is set to be replaced because of an accusation of being ‘racist’. The incident is a reminder that our intellectual heritage as members of the ‘American race’...
Americans’ Estrangement Threatens the Empire
Introduction When aiming to answer the question of “what is going on with America?” one must look first at what the underlying feelings currently held by Americans, by asking the first question: “what do Americans agree on?” The contemporary feeling is overwhelmingly...
Reflections on Resurrection Sunday: We’re Commanded To Be Free
Sunday, March 23, 2008 Reflections on Resurrection Sunday: We’re Commanded To Be Free From Jay-Robinson-actor.comThe Almighty State personified: The demented Caligula (here depicted by Jay Robinson in the 1953 epic The Robe), who once openly wished that all Rome might have one neck so that he could behead the entire population at a stoke, was […]
Freedom vs. Liberty: How Subtle Differences Between These Two Big Ideas Changed Our World
“I see the liberty of the individual not only as a great moral good in itself (or, with Lord Acton, as the highest political good), but also as the necessary condition for the flowering of all the other goods that mankind cherishes: moral virtue, civilization, the...
War is the Health of the State
(Part One of the unfinished essay, "The State") To most Americans of the classes which consider themselves significant the war [World War I] brought a sense of the sanctity of the State which, if they had had time to think about it, would have seemed a sudden and...
America’s Curse Is Calvinism, But Its Hope Lies With Renegades
One issue which motivates me substantially is war. War serves the powerful, and the powerful use ideas and norms to enlist the public in their preferred causes. I firmly believe that independent thought, and democratized moral reasoning, is completely essential in...
We Should Be Morally Judgmental Again
Libertarianism does not, it seems, have a common moral theory. Some have harped on and on about the Non-Aggression Principle as the be-all and end-all of libertarian morality. Still others invoke religion, or Ayn Rand, to produce some sort of moral system. These...
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