A right to something implies no one can legitimately take it from you or prevent you from enjoying that right. Thus a right to something means you are justified to use force to defend it. For example you have a right to your life, so if someone attacks you or threatens your life you can […]
The three volumes of The Gulag Archipelago — one continuous, extended scream of outrage — are, paradoxically, brilliant, bitter, disbelieving and infused with awe: awe at the strength characterising the best among us, in the worst of all situations. In that monumental text, published in 1973, Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn conducted “an experiment in literary investigation” — a hybrid […]
(I’m enjoying “strongman’ing” each position as a way to show what each side actually believes instead of painting a cartoonish caricature of the opposing viewpoint — as 99.999% of the corporate media does these days.) Here’s my attempt to show a viable political argument on the state of education in America: CONSERVATIVE: The problem with […]
