by Henry Oliner | Sep 9, 2020 | Politics, Progressivism
Kevin Williams astutely observed that much of our political differences can be traced to the different meaning we give our words. I would add that the evolution of the meanings of words over time traces our political evolution; we can avoid the restrictions of...
by Henry Oliner | Dec 20, 2017 | Economics, Politics
from Will and Ariel Durant, The Lessons of History (Kindle Locations 136-144). Simon & Schuster. Kindle Edition. p 20 “Nature smiles at the union of freedom and equality in our utopias. For freedom and equality are sworn and everlasting enemies, and when...
by Henry Oliner | Aug 18, 2016 | Politics
from Ron Johnson at the Wall Street Journal, Too Many Politicians Try to Hide the Real Problem Our Founders, who fought to free themselves from dictatorial monarchies and aristocracies, understood that as government grows, freedom necessarily recedes. Because our...
by Henry Oliner | Nov 6, 2011 | Politics
I am guilty of associating freedom with democracy. Thomas Sowell writes in his book The Thomas Sowell Reader that there is a distinct difference in the chapter ‘Freedom Versus Democracy.’ Democracy and Freedom are too often confounded. Britain itself did not have...
by Henry Oliner | Apr 25, 2011 | Economics, Politics
We have seen before how the separation of economic and political aims is an essential guarantee of individual freedom and how it is consequentially attacked by all collectivists. To this we must now add that the “substitution of political for economic power” now so...
