Liberty means the security given to each man that, if he employs his energies to sustain the struggle on behalf of himself and those he cares for, he shall dispose of the product exclusively as he chooses. It is impossible to know whence any definition or criterion of justice can be derived, if it is not deduced from this view of things; or if it is not the definition of justice that each shall enjoy the fruit of his own labor and self-denial, and of injustice that the idle and the industrious, the self-indulgent and the self-denying, shall share equally in the product.
–William Graham Sumner, "Socialism" [1880]
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June 12, 2020 The Pentagon's Role in the Protests
The chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, Gen. Mark Milley, is apologizing for the role he played in President Trump’s photo-op in Washington, D.C.. Dressed in battle fatigues, Milley accompanied Trump to the event in which National Guard troops attacked peaceful protestors with tear gas and rubber bullets in order to clear the way for Trump to conduct his ...
Sell NPR to the Highest Bidder
by Laurence M. Vance
Founded fifty years ago as National Public Radio, NPR — as it now always refers to itself — is a ...
How LockDowns Shattered the Structure of Production
by Richard M. Ebeling
Old fallacies have a way of reappearing, especially, during times of social and economic crises. The current coronavirus crisis has opened the door to ...
How LockDowns Shattered the Structure of Production
by Richard M. Ebeling
Old fallacies have a way of reappearing, especially, during times of social and economic crises. The current coronavirus crisis has opened the door to ...
The Wisconsin Model
by Laurence M. Vance
Old fallacies have a way of reappearing, especially, during times of social and economic crises. The current coronavirus crisis has opened the door to ...
