by Peter Venetoklis | Mar 21, 2017 | Health, Opinion, Politics
Socialized medicine advocates argue their case from angles both moral and practical. Their moral case, that civilized societies take care of their weak and needy, suffers from two major flaws: it conflates “society,” i.e. you and me and that which we do...
by Peter Venetoklis | Mar 18, 2017 | Politics
EDITOR’S NOTE: This article continues the discussion of government and human nature, found here and here. Politics is, by definition, the relationship between people and governments, and most political conversations and debates are, at their core, about how much...
by Peter Venetoklis | Mar 17, 2017 | Politics
EDITOR’S NOTE: This article continues yesterday’s discussion of the irreconcilable disconnect between collectivist politics and human nature. Science fiction, the field of literature and entertainment that is freest to explore ideas that stand apart from...
by Peter Venetoklis | Mar 16, 2017 | Culture, Politics
Six mistakes mankind keeps making century after century: Believing that personal gain is made by crushing others; Worrying about things that cannot be changed or corrected; Insisting that a thing is impossible because we cannot accomplish it; Refusing to set aside...
by Peter Venetoklis | Mar 12, 2017 | Opinion, Politics
The latest tempest in a [container size to be determined] to splat on the front pages of the media is the firestorm over President Trump’s assertions that the Obama administration wiretapped Trump Tower during the election last year. The Left and the mainstream...
by Karl Wright | Mar 12, 2017 | Culture, Politics
Today I would like to explore the modern Left and its relationship with so-called “political correctness”. This topic is by no means unexplored; whole books have been written about it, and there are even hypotheses at loose in the wild that claim that...
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