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Neither Left Nor Right: Selected Columns by Tibor R. Machan

By Tibor R. Machan

For greater than 20 years, Tibor Machan—a relentless recommend of the political philosophy of libertarianism—has championed the sovereignty of the person. As he himself places it, even ''when i'd lie again to get pleasure from a second of triumph, the euphoria of doing good at something—I locate the purpose concerning the rate of liberty being everlasting vigilance approximately most unlikely to put aside.'' during this publication, a set of his columns written for newspapers released via Freedom Communications, in addition to items written for different guides and internet sites, Machan deals his constantly well-reasoned, usually arguable evaluations at the number of threats to person liberty within the usa and around the globe. He encompasses a wide selection of innovations on why person liberty is so very important, besides insightful musings on nonconformity, vainness, and ethical advantage at the wane. He examines intercourse and politics in America—from Clinton's duplicity towards girls to the insidious prejudice of ''cultural identity''—and additionally stocks his impressions of such famous figures as Margaret Thatcher, Shelby Steele, and others. Machan additionally bargains his tackle the USA for the reason that Sept. 11, together with innovations on executive, liberty, and protection, why Islamists loathe the US, and masses extra. And, after all, he examines the continuing clash of the person as opposed to the nation on a variety of battlegrounds, from public colleges to the web. all through this assortment, Machan many times seizes the highbrow offensive opposed to those that appear to think that purely legislation and bureaucrats could make existence better—and offers a rigorous ethical case for usual rights, individualism, and capitalism.

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Not that all innovations are pretentious. But putting the Hoover Press : Machan/Liberty How to Think DP0 HMACCL0200 rev1 page 51 51 chairs in a class room in a circle and having a professor sit with the students as if, well, he or she were not really a professor but just some guy hanging out, didn’t amount to anything very inventive and novel, after all. These innovations were mostly devices by which people faked serious reform. They made it appear that something productive had been thought of and introduced, while in fact it was all mostly a ruse.

Criticizing restraint of trade because, well, it amounts to interference with people, a violation of their private property rights and freedom of contract, is no less based on tried and true principles, not as they apply to one’s sovereignty over one’s sexual life but to one’s sovereignty over one’s property and liberty. I would urge all the realists, pragmatists, and champions of infinite flexibility to consider that if they applied their view to all of what we do, there would be no basis for condemning lying, cheating, fraud, rape, murder, assault, kidnapping, or the other ways people damage their fellows.

America is not the flag. America is. . ” And suddenly he has my attention, America is what, Kris? Here’s what he says: “America is not the land. America is not the flag. America is the people. . ” What Kristofferson should have said is that America is not the land; America is not the flag; America is an idea. And the idea is a fairly simple one. It’s the idea of human liberty. Now, that sounds good—until one realizes that ideas have no homeland. Walter Berns, the conservative constitutional scholar, has come at the same point another way, in an article entitled “On Patriotism” (Public Interest, Spring 1997): “There is, of course, nothing peculiarly American about those [the Declaration’s] principles.

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