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The Lax Logic of Libertarians

Jag Bhalla | Posted 04.12.2013 | Politics
Read More: Aristotle, Tyranny, Religion, Virtue, John Stuart Mill, Liberty, Edward Luce, Mayor Bloomberg, Freedom, Financial TImes, Free Market, Libertarian, Capitalism, Thomas Aquinas, Politics News
Jag Bhalla

Crucial questions are misframed by pitting J.S. Mill and free-market libertarian faith against Mayor Bloomberg, reason and experience.

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Censorship on Campus in 2012: From Benghazi to Free Speech Zones at the University of Missouri

Greg Lukianoff | Posted 03.02.2013 | College
Read More: Eric Posner, Unlearning Liberty, Swarthmore, John Stuart Mill, Benghazi Attack, Anathea Butler, University of Missouri?Kansas City, College News
Greg Lukianoff

As I have discovered in my work, the idea that we must curtail that nasty First Amendment in the name of other (often shifting) values has a surprising amount of currency in academia -- the very institution that, perhaps, most relies on free speech in our society.

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Polymathic Perversity

Francis Levy | Posted 02.18.2013 | Books
Read More: Taxi, John Stuart Mill, Cheers, Absolutely Fabulous, William Congreve, Charles Rosen, The Classic Style, Da Vinci, Budd Schulberg, Books News
Francis Levy

In his classic Life Against Death: The Psychoanalytic Meaning of History, Norman O. Brown glommed upon Freud's concept of polymorphous perversity to describe the rich palette of human instinct.

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British Bipartisanship: Four Top Tips for the U.S.

Richard V. Reeves | Posted 01.09.2013 | Politics
Read More: John Stuart Mill, Britain, John Boehner, David Cameron, Nick Clegg, Fiscal Cliff, Paul Krugman, Bipartisanship, Obama Fiscal Cliff, Obama Boehner Meeting, Obama Boehner, Politics News
Richard V. Reeves

The story now: Gridlock or bipartisanship? How can the political leaders of the two Americas cut a deal on the deficit and avoid the 'fiscal cliff?' The British experience of coalition government offers a few tips.

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Review: Freedom of Religion and the Secular State by Russell Blackford

Steven Paul Leiva | Posted 09.26.2012 | Books
Read More: John Stuart Mill, Russell Blackford, War on Religion, Separation of Church and State, The Secular State, Freedom of Religion, Violence in the Middle East, Books News
Steven Paul Leiva

Religion, despite its eternal concerns, has never been shy about wanting to wield temporal power, and does so today in many nations in the East, and certain conservative factions of religion would be happy to do so in the West.

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Philosopher Christopher Robichaud on Truth and Knowledge In the American Political Context

Matt Bieber | Posted 05.06.2012 | Politics
Read More: John Stuart Mill, Birthers, Climate Change, Harvard, Presidential Debates, Jfk, Public Discourse, Robichaud, Politics News
Matt Bieber

On Obama's birth certificate, on climate, and in lots of other areas, I think we tend to see people speaking out of need or desire, not clear thought. Tribal, partisan interests dominate discourse much more than an honest pursuit of truth.

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The American Spring

Ronald Ricker | Posted 01.28.2012 | Politics
Read More: Equality, Tyranny, Alexander Hamilton, Bill of Rights, Politicians, Lobbying, Middle Class, Majority Rule, U.S. Constitution, Tyranny of the Minority, Federalist Papers, 1st Amendment, John Stuart Mill, Mob Rule, Nafta, Tyranny of the Masses, Patrick Henry, Right to Vote, Voting, Politics News
Ronald Ricker

Somewhere, sometime, accelerating rapidly recently, we Americans have lost it--the American Dream. We were the land of opportunity, the land of equa...

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Smile. They Can't Commoditize Creativity.

Nick Jefferson | Posted 01.23.2012 | Business
Read More: Creativity, John Stuart Mill, Labor, Advertising, Lady GaGa, Business, Mark Twain, Silicon Valley, Business News
Nick Jefferson

One of the marked characteristics of the 'readjustment' through which we are all living, both sides of The Pond, is that, for the first time, white collar jobs are under just as much pressure from this creeping commoditization.

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Does Harvard Want Bold Thinkers or Good Little Boys and Girls?

Greg Lukianoff | Posted 11.07.2011 | College
Read More: University, Harvard, Liberty, First Amendment, Harry Lewis, College, Freedom, Foundation for Individual Rights in Education, Campus, Free Speech, Higher Education, Greg Lukianoff, Civility, Darwin, John Stuart Mill, Socrates, Plato, Friedrich Nietzsche, Jonathan Rauch, College News
Greg Lukianoff

Harvard has missed something that I fear much of our society has lost sight of: Even if by some weird and lucky coincidence we happened to be right about every belief we cherish, we nevertheless tend not to understand why we hold those values until they are challenged.

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What It Means to Be 50 and a Woman in America in 2011: A Birthday Message to President Obama

Barbara Hannah Grufferman | Posted 10.03.2011 | Women
Read More: Vitamin D, Women, Michelle Obama, Women in America, President Obama, Women Over 50, Health After 50, The Best of Everything After 50, Barbara Grufferman, Pay Inequity, President Obama's 50th Birthday, Barack Obama, Woman's Sufferage, Gender Pay Inequality, Equal Rights Amendment, John Stuart Mill, Politics, Women After 50, Fitness After 50, A Man for All Seasons, Barbara Hannah Grufferman, Era, Sir Thomas More, Life After 50, Friedrich Nietzsche, Women News
Barbara Hannah Grufferman

Once we hit 50, we understand life is not unlimited, so maybe now's the time to clarify our priorities. I can only assume that President Obama and his team have been thinking about and planning his legacy for quite some time. Is he on the right track?

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Wendy Kaminer, "Hate Speech," and Campus Censorship

Greg Lukianoff | Posted 05.25.2011 | College
Read More: Campus Liberty, College, Bullying, The Atlantic, Free Speech, Foundation for Individual Rights in Education, Hate Speech, Higher Education, Jonathan Rauch, Fire, Greg Lukianoff, Wendy Kaminer, Censorship, Harassment, Universities, Femi Otitoju, Intelligence Squared, John Stuart Mill, Richard Dawkins, College News
Greg Lukianoff

Check out Wendy Kaminer's great column, "Debating Hate Speech," over at The Atlantic: Last week I engaged in an online Intelligence Squared debate abo...

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'13 Bankers': Beware Of Banana Peels

Simon Johnson | Posted 05.25.2011 | Books
Read More: Citigroup, John Stuart Mill, Megabanks, Wall Street, Lehman Brothers, Arianna's Reading, Karl Marx, Recession, Political Economy, Books, 13 Bankers, Bailouts, Adam Smith, Financial Crisis, Books News
Simon Johnson

What we need is a change in the conventional wisdom in Washington, away from the idea that what is good for Wall Street is good for America, and toward the idea that we should be skeptical of the megabanks.

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Who Are We? Individuals, Citizens, Journalists or All Three?

Hisham Wyne | Posted 05.25.2011 | Media
Read More: Freedom of Speech, Bloggers, John Stuart Mill, Freedom, Liberty, Journalists, March 18 Movement, Media News
Hisham Wyne

Let the first blogger who dies in prison be the last. In fact, expand that remit. Let the next person who dies in prison for exercising expression in any form be the very last. Ever.

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Barney Frank Introduces Marijuana Legislation

Chris Weigant | Posted 05.25.2011 | Politics
Read More: Dangerous Controlled Substance, White House, President Obama, Marijuana, Ron Paul, Barney Frank, Dea, Medical Marijuana, Obama, Drug, President, Drug Enforcement Agency, John Stuart Mill, Schedule I, Schedule, Schedule II, Medical Use, Bill Maher, Committee, House, Frank, Democrat, Henry Waxman, Paul, Democrats, Barack Obama, Marijuana Patient Protection Act, Dana Rohrabacher, Chris Weigant, Controlled Substance Act, Drug Policy, Personal Use, Rohrabacher, Politics News
Chris Weigant

How many Democrats do we need to elect to Congress before such commonsense laws are passed to rein in some of the excesses of past eras?

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