Wherein I am Disappointed in My Political Guru, Francis Fukuyama
…is critical of this order [thereby violating ‘safe space’] are not rights at all. I had an acquaintance who, in the ‘80s and ‘90s, traveled the country testifying on behalf…
…is critical of this order [thereby violating ‘safe space’] are not rights at all. I had an acquaintance who, in the ‘80s and ‘90s, traveled the country testifying on behalf…
…capitalist at all. Land use, in particular, is highly controlled. ‘Ownership’ now means not the right to use property according to one’s own desires, but to buy and sell and…
…they give their senators districts twice as large as those of their representatives, and terms that are twice as long. Also, the 1791 Bill of Rights was conceived to be…
…an unusually high moral commitment to the sanctity of private property and the immorality of theft and vandalism. Um, not quite. In a society like Japan, where the people, not…
…rights. They are the only juridical rights to resources, the only economic rights that exist. Healthcare is a finite resource; therefore every human being cannot have a juridical right to…
…of themselves as upholding the rights of Englishmen, which they had been denied between 1763 and 1775 as colonists under the ‘enlightened’ Parliamentary despotism. They also believed they were creating…
…likely to be than in the old Iberian days – the missionaries often tried to defend the rights of the native populations against intrusive governments. When the European colonial tide…
…himself? I must admit, however, that I find it hard to think that a true Christian can believe in abortion ‘rights’ in most situations. As to same sex marriage, I…
I have written about the increasing use of civil law to bypass the limitations and ‘rights’ attached to criminal law. But yet another tactic has recently been discovered, and maybe…
…property. This was not a tiny minority, but it was not everyone. And the Founders rejected direct democracy. But those property qualifications were done away with by the middle of…