Category Archives: Blogs by Tibor Machan

Lessons in Freedom: Ethics and Gouging

Posted on December 5, 2012 by weblogbahamas

by Tibor R. Machan During most emergencies there are those who could certainly use quite a bit of help and it is on such occasions that complaints about gouging surface most vociferously. The recent storms and hurricanes in the Northeast … Continue reading →

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Lessons in Freedom: Doubting One’s Mind

Posted on December 3, 2012 by weblogbahamas

by Tibor R. Machan A central topic of philosophy throughout the ages has been whether human beings can trust their minds, including their sensory awareness and thinking. Skepticism about this has been a major challenge and many from Socrates to … Continue reading →

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Lessons in Freedom: The Pitfalls of Public Spheres (From the Archive)

Posted on November 26, 2012 by weblogbahamas

by Tibor R. Machan "Each fancies that no harm will come to his neglect…" (Thucydides) Everyone has an incentive to use resources freely available to all…but none has a corresponding incentive to conserve or replenish the resources. Parcels privately held … Continue reading →

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Lessons in Freedom: More Myth Making at The Times (From the archives)

Posted on November 19, 2012 by weblogbahamas

by Tibor R. Machan As a teacher of business ethics I often encounter the quip, "Isn't that an oxymoron?" It is not but what is more interesting is how readily ordinary folks give a pass to journalistic malpractice, something there's … Continue reading →

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Lessons in Freedom: The Myth of Non-coercive Paternalism

Posted on November 9, 2012 by weblogbahamas

by Tibor R. Machan The father-son team Robert and Edward Skidelsky–the former a recent biographer and avid champion of John Maynard Keynes, the latter a professor of philosophy–have written a book that joins the long list of anti-free market tirades … Continue reading →

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Lessons in Freedom: Defending Ideology

Posted on November 7, 2012 by weblogbahamas

by Tibor R. Machan It is very common among intellectuals in our time to demean ideology.  Thus if one supports, say, free trade with foreign firms, one is belittled for doing so on grounds of one’s conviction that free trade … Continue reading →

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Lessons in Freedom: Obama and Ayn Rand

Posted on November 5, 2012 by weblogbahamas

by Tibor R. Machan In a recent interview in Rolling Stone (November 8th, 2012) magazine President Obama was asked about what he thinks of Republican VP Candidate Paul Ryan’s (admittedly limited) respect for Russian-American novelist-philosopher Ayn Rand.  (It is limited … Continue reading →

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Lessons in Freedom: It’s All About Choices, Stupid

Posted on November 2, 2012 by weblogbahamas

by Tibor R. Machan There is a phony conflict afoot that statists are fond of bringing up when they try to discredit the free society.  It is about the individual versus the community.  Champions of human liberty are often mis-characterized … Continue reading →

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Lessons in Freedom: American Statism

Posted on October 31, 2012 by weblogbahamas

by Tibor R. Machan William H. Gass is one of the cheerleaders of American statism and he has done his fair share of work in support of the near total state (having done stints at the White House, if memory … Continue reading →

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Lessons in Freedom: Another Effort to Void Our Basic Rights

Posted on October 29, 2012 by weblogbahamas

by Tibor R. Machan* In this short essay I address an argument concerning welfare rights made against the late Robert Nozick by Adrian Bardon a while back. Bardon brings up an issue that’s central concerning the nature of basic individual … Continue reading →

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