“They have promised us protection from nature in exchange for letting them rule men. A self-reliant America would offer us protection from other men so that we are free to face the challenges of nature. That is what we should fight for, those of us who want to make the world a better place.”
“The true source of economic security is self-reliance and economic freedom—Social Security is immoral because it subverts both. It sabotages the virtues that enable us to survive, prosper, and enjoy our lives—and the social system that lets us exercise those virtues.” — Don Watkins
Rooseveltcare: How Social Security is Sabotaging the Land of Self Reliance explains how the government takeover of an individual’s ability to plan and save for their own retirement through FDR’s “social security” program, is morally wrong and runs counter to America’s core principles of individualism and self-reliance. The book shows how this unfunded statist, Ponzi scheme with trillions of dollars of unfunded mandates, threatens to bankrupt the American government. The author calls for the abolishment of the entitlement state, and by examining how Americans saved for their retirement in the past — through voluntary savings and self-help societies — shows a workable way out. The worst part of this book is its now obscure “clever” title — a play on Obamacare.
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“Virtually all Enlightenment thinkers supported the idea that reason was efficacious and that it was man’s only means of acquiring knowledge. By confidently promoting the unaided reason of each and every man, Bacon, Newton, and Locke were saying that knowledge and objective truth were open to all men and not the preserve of a special few. Enlightenment reason was a social solvent that encouraged a deep-seated suspicion of authority. Men would no longer submit docilely to those whom Locke referred to as the “dictator[s] of principles.”
“The concept “rights” is a deduction from the fundamental fact of self-ownership. The claim to property in one’s own person is a moral claim to noninterference and exclusivity. No person has a claim on any other person’s life (i.e., their body, mind, and actions).”- C. Bradley Thompson
America’s Revolutionary Mind by C. Bradley Thompson elaborates on the “self-evident truths” animating the Declaration of Independence as the embodiment of what he calls the “American mind” and reiterates John Adam’s claim that the “real American Revolution” was a moral revolution that occurred in the minds of Americans in the fifteen years before 1776. It was this moral revolution that resulted in its political revolution.
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In Six Easy Pieces, Feynman gives an essentialized presentation on the nature of atoms, basic physics, energy, gravitation, quantum mechanics, and the relationship of physics to other topics. A related follow-up book is his Six Not-So-Easy Pieces: Einstein’s Relativity, Symmetry, and Space-Time
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Thomas Sowell “presents eye-opening insights into the historical development of the ghetto culture that is today wrongly seen as a unique black identity–a culture cheered on toward self-destruction by white liberals who consider themselves “friends” of blacks. An essay titled The Real History of Slavery presents a jolting re-examination of that tragic institution and the narrow and distorted way it is too often seen today. The reasons for the venomous hatred of Jews, and of other groups like them in countries around the world, are explored in an essay that asks, Are Jews Generic? Misconceptions of German history in general, and of the Nazi era in particular, are also re-examined. So too are the inspiring achievements and painful tragedies of black education in the United States.”
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Frank Miller and David Mazzucchelli’s reinterpretation of the origin of Batman.
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What would happen if the spaceship carrying the last son of Krypton landed not in Kansas but in the 1950s Russia and was raised in the Soviet Union as Stalin’s right hand?
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An excellent supplement to contemporary economics textbooks. Topics covered include monopoly, antitrust laws and predatory pricing, ‘externalities,’ safety and quality regulation, environmentalism, economic inequality, ‘public goods,’ and asymmetric information.
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Not what I expected, The Autobiography of Malcolm X is essential reading for anyone who wants to understand the three iterations of Malcolm X. Recommended.
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Free Market Revolution: How Ayn Rand’s Ideas Can End Big Government by Don Watkins and Yaron Brook, explains how Rand’s philosophy can enable defenders of the free market to seize the moral high ground in their fight to limit statist government.
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“It is brilliant in the perceptiveness, the incisiveness, the power, the scope of its analysis that presents–in carefully chosen, dramatically illuminating essentials the history of man’s long quest for freedom, from ancient Greece to World War II. It offers an unforgettable experience: a panorama of the centuries, as seen from the elevation of a truly grand intellectual scale.” — Ayn Rand
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