by Henry Oliner | May 8, 2020 | Politics
From Daniel Henninger at The Wall Street Journal, Joe Biden and the Moralizers: Yes, we are learning again the high price of double standards and hypocrisy, which are always with us. But while the Democrats’ bucket brigades throw water on the Biden-Reade wildfire,...
by Henry Oliner | Dec 2, 2011 | Philosophy, Politics
The outsourcing of private morality to the state is a particularly modern affliction, but equally as pernicious. We witness the startling paradox that today’s private society is crasser, less honest, and more uncouth even as its government’s official morality stresses...
by Henry Oliner | Jan 4, 2010 | Economics, Philosophy, Politics
There are those who see our financial problem as a moral failure. In one sense it is, but not in the sense those who wish to frame it in moral tones believe. To blame greed for the meltdown is simplistic and irrelevant. Greed has been with us forever. Why would it...
by Henry Oliner | Nov 16, 2009 | Economics
Americans are appalled at the idea of an organ donor market, where individuals can be compensated for donating their organs while they are alive. We fear that the rich will prey on the poor, and that people may even be bred for organ income. We thus depend on...
