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Hazony’s Tradition-Based Society Is a Form of Social Engineering

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At any moment in time, the world seems to be going to hell in a handbasket. Manners are missing; ethics are being eliminated; culture is corrupted; social attitudes are supercilious; virtues are vanishing; literature is mostly licentious; industry and commerce are materialistically crude and callous; and humaneness is hamstrung by greed and selfishness. It’s the end of civilization. And there are always those who have projects and plans to fix it and set the world right, almost always through government directing action. Walt Whitman’s Criticisms of “Fallen” America The fears and concerns about social conditions and their solutions heard today have been expressed many a time in the past, both more distant and closer to our own time. For instance, the famous 19th-century American poet Walt Whitman (1819-92) expressed such disenchantment about the United States in his 1871 essay, Democratic Vistas: Never was there, perhaps, more hollowness at heart than at present, and here in the United States.… ...

Immigration Control Follies

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Sometimes the debate over the decades-long immigration crisis becomes amusing. In a July 26 editorial entitled “Trump’s Wall Gets America Nowhere on Border Security,” which takes the Trump administration to task for its cruel, brutal, destructive, and failed immigration enforcement measures, the New York Times writes, “There must be a way to house the migrants, accelerate the hearings and protect the border with respect for the dignity and rights of these desperate people.” That’s funny! There must be plan to make America’s system of immigration controls work! There just has to be a plan. Somewhere out there, somebody has got to know how to make this system work. Obviously those smart people on the New York Times editorial board aren’t among them. Because if they had that immigration plan, they would have presented it in their editorial. But surely there are immigration experts out there somewhere with powerful computers that can come up ...

Immigration Hypocrisy, Left and Right

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You couldn’t find a better example of hypocrisy among both conservatives and liberals (i.e., progressives, leftists) than in the area on immigration. Conservatives love to wrap themselves in free-market, capitalist lingo. They tell us that they are fierce opponents of socialism. Their favorite mantra is “free enterprise, private property, and limited government.” You might even find them quoting Milton Friedman or Friedrich Hayek. Yet, all that “devotion” to free-market principles goes out the window when it comes to immigration. Rather than simply leaving people free to cross borders seeking to improve their lives through labor, which is what “free enterprise” is all about, conservatives support an enormous big-government immigration system, one that is based on the socialist principle of central planning. It’s not a coincidence that there has been a decades-long, ongoing, never-ending immigration crisis, one characterized by an enormous supply of immigrants at the border trying to enter the United States ...

Let’s Think at a Higher Level

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One of the distinguishing characteristics between libertarians and non-libertarians is with respect to the welfare-warfare state way of life. Libertarians are committed to dismantling, repealing, abolishing, or ending it, while conservatives and progressives are committed to maintaining its existence and simply reforming it. One of the most remarkable achievements in freedom occurred when the First Amendment was adopted. Since it ...