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Aquinas on Private Property Rights

Aquinas on Private Property Rights

Aquinas’s views on private property rights are influential and important in understanding the history...

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Who Said Property Is A ‘Self-Evident’ or ‘Natural’ Right?

Who Said Property Is A ‘Self-Evident’ or ‘Natural’ Right?

There is a widely held belief that property is one of those “self-evident” or...

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Liberals Need a Theory of Liberty

Liberals Need a Theory of Liberty

The political Left needs a better political philosophy and it has to start with...

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Obama Charges Cheney with “playing the dick card”

Obama Charges Cheney with “playing the dick card”

Did you hear that Obama finally responded to Dick Cheney’s accusation in a Playboy...

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The Market Should Not be 0ur God (and economists should no longer be our source of morality)

The Market Should Not be 0ur God (and economists should no longer be our source of morality)

One of the stranger and more problematic changes in the modern period is the...

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Capitalism and Freedom – A Short Critique of Milton Friedman.

Capitalism and Freedom – A Short Critique of Milton Friedman.

Or why capitalism and freedom are not necessarily the same thing, despite what Milton...

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Why Health Care Is A Natural Right (King v. Burwell)

Why Health Care Is A Natural Right (King v. Burwell)

With the Supreme Court decision looming in the Obamacare related case of King v....

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The Big Embarrassing Lie about the Supreme Court

The Big Embarrassing Lie about the Supreme Court

One of the big lies by which we Americans mislead ourselves is in thinking...

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At Last, We Can Have A Hereditary Monarchy: I’m Voting For Jeb

At Last, We Can Have A Hereditary Monarchy: I’m Voting For Jeb

We all know that what is wrong with this country is that it lacks...

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How Can the Right Be So Stupid or Are They?

How Can the Right Be So Stupid or Are They?

Among liberals (I number myself among them) there has been an ongoing conversation about...

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