It now looks like California voters will have the chance to vote on whether or not the state ought to be split up into three pieces. The Los AngelesTimes reports : If a majority of voters who cast ballots agree, a long and contentious process would begin for three...
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Are Conservatives Dumber Than Liberals?
Hillary Clinton referred to conservatives who supported Donald Trump as “deplorables.” In referring to working-class conservatives harmed by de-industrialization, Barack Obama said: "They get bitter, they cling to guns or religion or antipathy to people who aren't...
4/17/18 Daniel Lazare on Saudi Arabia’s Resource Curse
Journalist and author Daniel Lazare returns to the show to discuss the latest issues facing Saudi Arabia and his latest article for The American Conservative, "Will the Saudi Kingdom Collapse Under the Resource Curse?" Lazare compares the Saudi Arabian kingdom to 16th...
4/17/18 Daniel Lazare on Saudi Arabia's Resource Curse
Journalist and author Daniel Lazare returns to the show to discuss the latest issues facing Saudi Arabia and his latest article for The American Conservative, "Will the Saudi Kingdom Collapse Under the Resource Curse?" Lazare compares the Saudi Arabian kingdom to 16th...
Ayn Rand’s Philosophy Has A Fatal Flaw
When I first encountered Ayn Rand's philosophy of Objectivism, I found it to ring true. It just made so much sense, and was very logically precise. I found that those who were critical of it often failed to grasp the broader implications of what she was saying,...
Exporting Roosevelt’s New Deal through Aid, Investment, and Threat of War
The Marshall Plan is more than a historical event — it has become a modern myth. As such, it may be mostly true or mostly false, but it exercises a powerful hold over reality. And the perceived success of the Marshall Plan has influenced American policy since the late...
Liberty is like a Healthy Marriage
There is a view in some circles that one system of social organization or another will be self-perpetuating. That if we arrive at libertarian paradise, it will exist forever. This is an absurd notion. As long as there is social organization, there is the potential...
Liberating Women
That's the reason for the American empire. Everybody knows that: "The Iraqi government is poised to legalize child marriage for the nation’s majority Shiite Muslim population. But the law, which some expect to pass before this month’s parliamentary elections, would do...
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