The Babyproofed Society: The Urge to Eliminate Risk From American Life
The trial balloon of banning gas stoves is just another example “Babyproofed Society,” of the progressive quest to eliminate risk from American society.
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What Does Getting Vaccinated Have To Do With Freedom?
What does getting vaccinated have to do with freedom? It depends on what you mean by the word “freedom”…
Weapons in the War of Ideas: Books & Book Burning
In recent days, I’ve read about the burning of books on the streets of Portland and of Harry Potter books torched by the far Left. I don’t like burning books, to put it very...
Something Has Got to Give: Law, Liberty, and Coronavirus
I wonder how far they can go, how long this can go on, before we lose our collective willingness to submit.
Starcraft’s American Frontier in the Cosmos
A popular computer game asks a troubling question: Is space our salvation – or a cruel mirage?
Linky Friday #154: Whisky, Sexy, Freedom
This week! Religion, Nature, Democracy, Education, Sex, and Freedom!
Comment Rescue: Cultural Merits of Abortion
I’ve never done this before — promoted my own comment, that is. But I think I got a pretty decent thought out there.
Three Quick Points on Arizona and the Rights of Gays, Lesbians and Transgendered People vs. Religious Freedom
Because just making two quick points seemed somehow lazy, and making four quick points felt like overkill.
Triaxial Epistemology
By way of Popehat, Arnold Kling on a root problem with contemporary political discourse, summarized in the Wall Street Journal: Mr. Kling’s three “languages” are ways of talking about politics and government, and they...
Water, water, everywhere, and not a drop to think: Gary Harrington, Oregon water rights, and Freedom
Note: This post may – or may not – be part of our League Symposium on Democracy. I can’t quite tell. [Moderator: Looks like it fits in to me. – BL] In any case,...
The Hunger Games and Politics
So what did I think? The Hunger Games is about the empire of economic necessity. If you’re a human being, congratulations. You’re playing the hunger games too. Within just a few hours, you will...
Religious Rights, Natural Law, and the Imperfect Pragmatic
The religious freedom issue created (highlighted?) by the Obama administration’s newest healthcare mandates is a hard one for me to grapple with. Part of the reason for this is my aforementioned agnosticism. As I...
The More Things Change : Contraception Controversy Edition
Over at the Atlantic, Brian Resnick has dug up two essays from his magazine’s October 1939 edition. One argues for legal contraception, the other against. Birth Control: The Case for the State by Don...
Nostalgia & Freedom
“In general, I am agnostic on exactly how libertarian I want society to be. What I know is that I want more libertarianism (of certain kinds) than we have right now. After some changes...
Rally to restore Irony
Will Wilkinson writes that Peter Beinart’s critique of Jon Stewart’s Rally to Restore Sanity “cuts deep…when he observes that the focus on ‘sanity’ is demeaning to the tea-party movement and its sympathisers, and reflects...
