Liberty
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The president starts spying on American citizens. Then he starts indefinitely detaining them. Then he starts exiling them. Then he starts executing them. All without due process. All without a speedy trial or a trial by jury, some without any evidence whatsoever. And all while people in the same party as the president defend his…
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Over the past couple of weeks I have ordered an inappropriate number of Buckyballs. Why? Because A) they are really, really fun, and B) they were just unceremoniously banned by the US government, so they are stopping production and having a clearance sale. What are Buckyballs? Buckyballs (not these) are spherical rare earth magnets that…
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I’ve never heard their music. It doesn’t matter. There is nothing more odious, nothing creepier, nothing more outrageous than the jailing of people whose only crime were in thought, writing and expression. It is the cornerstone of a free society–which Russia is clearly not–that all people have the right to express their views, and that…
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Recently I was having a spirited debate with a friend whom I suspect to be a libertarian sympathizer. His big criticism of libertarianism–a very fair one–was that libertarians tend to value Freedom as an end in itself, not more tangible and perhaps more measurable goals such as social mobility, humanitarianism, or even wealth creation. What…
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It’s happening in France today as it has happened across Europe. The steady declination of individual liberty and the overstepping authority of the state. It is not just an isolated incident anymore, but a pattern of invasion. The latest outrage is a new ban in France which went into effect today. Anyone caught wearing a…
brian mayer 