by Peter Venetoklis | Mar 30, 2018 | Culture, Drug Policy, Economics, Politics
A tidbit found in a Reason.com article about the unintended consequences of War on Drugs tactics illustrates both the vapidity and destructiveness of “show-off” responses to societal issues. An effort to tackle cocaine use included an initiative to pay...
by Peter Venetoklis | Mar 22, 2018 | Opinion, Politics
Consider this adage, from writer Carl Shirky: Institutions will try to preserve the problem to which they are the solution. Now, consider the laundry list of social problems that have lingered for decades, despite the best efforts of big government, advocacy groups,...
by Peter Venetoklis | Mar 15, 2018 | Health, Opinion, Politics
Liberty lovers found a kernel of positivity in Trump’s 2018 State of the Union address in his support for legislation allowing terminally ill patients the “right to try” experimental treatments. The embedded principle is controversial (obviously,...
by Eugene Darden Nicholas | Mar 10, 2018 | Culture, Opinion, Politics
Consider the Bible’s Matthew Effect, often interpreted as “the rich get richer and the poor get poorer.” At first this would seem unchristian, hardly of the same school as “the meek shall inherit the earth.” Seen through the lens of life...
by Peter Venetoklis | Mar 8, 2018 | Immigration, Opinion
Many years back, I took an quiz (in the pre-Internet days) that gauged political sophistication. One of the quiz’s questions was whether I agreed with the statement “The law is the law.” As I recall, it seemed a bit stark and jarring in comparison to...
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