It’s enough to know when something violates other people’s rights and liberty; to understand I have no right to violate others even if I can’t know with certainty how things would go if no one violates them.
Tag: change
Owning the Past
My excellent fellow writer and contributor here at EVC, Kent McManigal wrote a piece recently in which he pointed out that racism is not a permanent affliction. It is only enduring when the holder of racist views continues to stoke that fire.
The Mighty Difference Between Immigration and Trade
International trade is a wonderful thing, but merely trading goods across borders has no blatant effect on the productivity of the workers who produced the goods. When a worker migrates from a low-productivity country to a high-productivity country, however, he becomes vastly more productive almost overnight.
The Practice of Letting Go
When we practice like this, we are shifting from our habitual patterns of self-concern and shutting out all possibilities, to openness and not-knowing, to unlimited possibilities and seeing the breath-taking beauty of the world in front of us.
Groundhog Day
I don’t get it. Why this human propensity to wig out over an excruciating obsession with air currents? The physics behind weather has long been known. The Earth has a tilt and rotation, an orbit about a living sun. It’s cut and dried. The poor weatherman on TV has to come up with something to keep us buying pork’n’beans.
Scott Adams Doesn’t Understand “Plant Food”
Scott Adams says the observation that “carbon dioxide is plant food” is a terrible argument– an “embarrassing opinion”– for AGCC skepticism. He’s wrong. Here’s why.
“Deep State” Isn’t What You Think
You’ve probably been hearing about the “deep state” recently, with some pundits saying it’s a danger and others saying it doesn’t even exist. It’s real, but it’s not the conspiracy theory some would have you believe. Its reality shouldn’t be controversial; it’s there for everyone to see and experience.
Wendy McElroy: Feminist History Revisited (33m)
This episode features a lecture by Wendy McElroy from 1985 on the history of feminism beginning with its modern roots in the American abolitionist movement in the early and mid-1800s. She also explains why she believes that libertarianism and feminism are incongruous when it comes to their respective goals related to social change.
Why I’m Optimistic About Venezuela
If you’re too young to remember the collapse of Communism, this is a tiny taste of the sweetness of 1988-1991. When’s the last time you had reasonable hope of dramatic peaceful pro-freedom change in the world?
Dear Women: You ARE Your Body, And That Isn’t A Bad Thing; It’s Your Power
The mind/body duality is as fundamental to universal nature as masculine/feminine duality. If you don’t believe in masculine/feminine energy polarities or that there are “masculine” traits and characteristics as well as “feminine” ones, then maybe just stop reading because this article probably isn’t for you. If you do have a deep or even general understanding…