Posts dedicated to philosophy of society, civic governance and general ideas.
LISTEN TO TLR’S LATEST PODCAST: By Zach Foster Opposing open borders in favor of strict border control, especially by means of the state, is antithetical to liberty. War is the health of the state, but the same can be said about strict border control, which requires the militarization of borders. If war is the health of…
LISTEN TO TLR’S LATEST PODCAST: by Kitty Testa In the political landscape most voters don’t ooze passion about presidents, which is probably a healthy thing. Elections come and go, they vote, often reluctantly, and wait to see what happens. Then there are others who strongly support a president, truly believing that he will deliver the…
Libertarians believe a lot of things, and they wish to politically lead others with those beliefs. Most of those beliefs — virtually all of them, actually — are worthy of acceptance. The one thing that libertarians believe that I simply cannot abide, though, is their insistence on pretending that their political philosophy is separable from…
“Power tends to corrupt, and absolute power corrupts absolutely” John Dalberg-Acton, 1st Baron Acton “Absolute power does not corrupt absolutely, absolute power attracts the corruptible.” Frank Herbert We have above some of the collected wisdom a historian/writer/politician and the writer of Dune. Suffice to say being the follow up act is a…
by Micah J. Fleck A recent podcast by The Blaze correspondent Matt Walsh was recently posted alongside a related article semi-transcribing its contents on The Blaze website The title read as follows: “This is very simple: if you can’t afford college, don’t go to college.” Within the body of the article (a paraphrasing of the…
Sologamists mean well, but their practice is hard to take seriously. Whether simple affirmation or radical arrogance, though, self-marriage is a thing.
by J.W. Holland I moved to the Phoenix area in 2013. One of the things I liked immediately was the access to all four major sports leagues. On top of the fact that the Valley also has arena football, WNBA, a PGA tournament, two Nascar Races, Indy Race, NHRA event, Spring Training, and many one-off…
Gender and society versus sex and science by Resa Willis (M.S. Biology) We’ve all seen the trend. The yellow or green nursery rooms, the hesitation of some parents to offer gender-typical toys, the influx of gender-neutral options flooding the market, and even pressure on companies and stores to stop catering certain types of toys to specific sexes….
by Kitty Testa My father once told me, “The pendulum swings.” We were talking about history, and I was very young at the time. He explained how the licentious 1920s were a response to the prudish Victorian Era, how the conservative post-WWII of the 1950s was a rejection of the risk-taking 1920s that led to…
by Kitty Testa So you think 2016 was the worst year ever? In a global sense, I would nominate almost any year in the 20th century as being far worse than 2016. Over that 100-year span, approximately 200 million people were killed from war, deliberate famines and pogroms, and over 800 million perished in epidemics….