Vladimir Putin’s aggressive invasion of Ukraine and annexation of Crimea put me in mind of Hitler’s invasion of the (pro-German) Sudetenland in 1938. Now we can sympathize with the despised Neville Chamberlain. After all, Hitler’s means and rhetoric were noxious, but the truth was that in the Sudetenland regions of then-Czechoslovakia, a sizable majority could have been expected to favor unity with Germany. And Czechoslovakia’s borders seemed arbitrary: the country had only existed for 20 years at the time of the crisis. Read now >
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By William R Thomas
One reason I am an Objectivist is because I came to see all the hypocrisies and bad ideas floating around in our culture just in the way Ayn Rand picks them out in The Fountainhead and Atlas Shrugged. There are wonders in the world, too, but sometimes the culture hits one in the face with a cow patty.
This week, reading the Atlantic, I got cow-pattied. I stumbled upon a pure expression of the sick, twisted world-view that drives much of today's intellectual and literary culture. Read now > |
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 Happy Repeal Day, Australia!
By Alexander R. Cohen
Politicians are often judged by the new laws they create, banning this and regulating that. But laws get in the way; they stop people from doing things. And since the categories of human evils are fairly few, often that means stopping, or interfering with, good, productive activities.
One of the best things politicians can do, then, is get rid of destructive laws and regulations. The Australian government’s Repeal Day is an effort not only to do that, but to call attention to it... Read more > |
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