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Death of a Feminist
by Christopher Chantrill
ON JULY 15 the American feminist
Susan Lydon
died at age 61 of cancer. She is celebrated as the author of
“The Politics of Orgasm,” in which she argued in 1970 that “women do not need men to achieve sexual fulfilment.” The reason, you
see, is that the clitoris is the center of female sexual pleasure.
Perhaps Lyton’s jaundiced view of human sexual relations was affected by her participation in the
notorious San unfold
Karl Rove, Supply Sider
by Christopher Chantrill
THE IMPORTANCE of Karl Rove isn’t just that he is a top-flight political strategist. As
Larry Kudlow
relates, he is also a committed supply sider. He has been a strong advocate for the president’s
tax rate cuts and
the cuts in the tax rates on capital.
At a recent speech at the Reagan Library, Rove quoted
the great classical free-market thinker Ludwig von Mises, who said that
`capitalism has raised the standard of living among the masses to a unfold
Eek! Hayek Alert NYT Readers!
by Christopher Chantrill
FOR YEARS THE New York Times has carefully sheltered its readers from the corrosive ideas of Nobel laureate F.A. Hayek (oh all right, there have been four mentions so far this year, one by David Brooks and the rest in Danger on the Right articles about conservatives). But in today’s Book Review Richard A. Posner dares to introduce the name that dare not speak its name. At least not to liberals who thought that unfold
Sphere: Related Content | | perm | comment | print | 07/31/05 10:00 am ETAre You Now... a Member of The Federalist Society?
by Christopher Chantrill
IT WOULD BE comical if it weren’t so mean-spirited and sad. Liberals are all worked up about
whether Judge Roberts has been a member of the Federalist Society, a group of conservative and
libertarian lawyers that promotes the idea of a “dead” constitution. The society advocates for the idea
that the consitution means what it says it means and
what the founders said it meant, and can only be amended by the constitutional amendment process and
not by the judicial amendment process.
Liberals are scandalized by the Federalist Society unfold
Blog Bites MSM: Guardian Trainee Didn't Disclose Terror Links
by Christopher Chantrill
REMEMBER IN the good old days when the MSM importantly told us how they were
the people’s tribune, the last line of defense against abuse of power by the
high and mighty? That
was before the blogs.
British blogger
Steve Burgess
(actually an American blogging in Britain) decided to look
up the connections of a Muslim trainee at The Guardian and found that
trainee Dilpazier Aslam was writing features about terrorism without disclosing
that he “was a member of the unfold
Don't Tell the Democrats!
by Christopher Chantrill
THE RISK IN nominating a conservative to the Supreme Court with a short period of service on the
bench is that you can’t be too sure what you are getting. That
is what has conservatives worried about Judge Roberts. They remember the
conservative court picks that were captured by the liberal beltway culture:
O’Connor, Kennedy, and Souter. Ann Coulter has put out a couple of articles
already that worry about this prospect.
But Carol Platt Liebau
thinks that we may unfold
Indonesians Think Christianity is More Modern
by Christopher Chantrill
THERE IS NO doubt that the west needs to get a lot more serious about the Islamic
mass movement and its program to create a world-wide caliphate. But we need to keep a sense of proportion.
Here is a brief item from
Strategy Page
about Christianity in Indonesia. Moderate Muslim leaders want help from the Indonesian government
“to stem the growth of Christianity.”
While 85 percent of Indonesians are Moslem, most of
the remainder are unfold
Forty Years Later: The Moynihan Report
by Christopher Chantrill
OH YEAH. FORTY years ago this summer. The Moynihan Report on the Negro Family.
Kay S. Hymowitz does a little retrospective entitled
The Black Family: 40 Years of Lies.
Back then you see, in 1965, the late Daniel Patrick Moynihan sounded the
alarm that the black family was in crisis. Illegitimacy rates had soared to
25 percent. Something had to be done.
But Moynihan was shouted down in a storm of abuse, and a literature began to
emerge that celebrated the unfold
The Left Hates Exercise and Grooming
by Christopher Chantrill
WANT TO KNOW what President Bush has done now? According to liberal writer Jonathan Chait
he is exercising too much. Apparently it is scandalous that the president takes an hour or two
out of every day to get exercise. “What I mean is the fact that Bush has an obsession
with exercise that borders on the creepy,” he writes.
“Really?” asks
Tammy Bruce.
Not according to the medical establishment and the Surgeon General’s office,
which notes the unfold
Ten Core Values of Britishness
by Christopher Chantrill
IN THE AFTERMATH of the London bombings, Londoners are doing a bit of thinking about what Britishness means. They are, as radio host Dennis Prager would say, trying to get a little clarity about what they are and what they believe in. In The Daily Telegraph they have taken the time to formulate and publish a list of ten core values that tell what it means to be British. Here they unfold
Sphere: Related Content | | perm | comment | print | 07/26/05 3:55 pm ETWill Conservative Movement Split over Mark Steyn?
by Christopher Chantrill
AS CONSERVATIVES and Republicans try to come together to get Judge Roberts
onto the Supreme Court, squabbling in the ranks is threatening to reverse
the painfully won victories that conservatives have gained over the years and perhaps
even put the nomination in jeopardy.
At the center of the storm is the self-styled “global content
provider” Mark Steyn. This brilliant writer and controversialist
is proving to be a divisive influence on conservatives in the United States.
Writes
Let's Talk Economic Horse Sense
by Christopher Chantrill
YOU ECONOMIC Neanderthals that still think, like the Spanish of 1600 and the French of 1700 and
the Germans of 1870 and the Smoots and Hawleys of 1930, that trade surpluses are good and trade deficits are bad shouldn´t read this
analysis of the revaluation of the Chinese Yuan by
John Tamny.
You won´t want to read that the trade figures are meaningless since, as the great Bob Bartley
once said, the trade figures always balance. Ludwig von Mises said it unfold
Organized Labor Split
by Christopher Chantrill
TODAY THE TEAMSTERS and the Service Employees International Union announced their
decision to leave the parent AFL-CIO, reports
The New York Times.
Their action symbolizes the split in approach to the deployment of union power. The
AFL-CIO wants to spend money on politics. The breakaway unions want to focus on
organizing.
The breakup also illustrates the split personality of labor unions unfold
Spengler Breaks Harry Potter Spell
by Christopher Chantrill
WE´VE ALL LEARNED to love Harry Potter, the teenaged wizard who has taught a generation of children
to read.
Spengler
begs to differ. He does not see a harmless lovable fuzzball; he sees decline and decadence. He sees readers
submitting to a philosophy that says you can be special by remaining just who you are.
“Harry (like young Skywalker) draws his superhuman powers out of the well of his `inner feelings.´”
But this gets it all wrong, complains unfold
Hospice Movement Founder Dies
by Christopher Chantrill
SOMETIMES THE important news is not too important. Sometimes it ought to
take a back seat to the really important stuff, the stuff of life and death
that we ignore in favor of the ephemeral and the titillating.
On July 14,
Dame Cicely Saunders
died aged 87. She was the “Visionary founder of the modern hospice movement who set the highest standards in care for the dying.”
She found her metier when caring for
a dying patient, unfold
More Confusion over Evolution
by Christopher Chantrill
FREDERICK TURNER returns to the Evolution v. Intelligent Design debate with an
article to remind us that evolution has been proved.
Lots of people are
weighing in with their own takes.
Well yes, evolution has been proved, more or less. It’s true in the way that the theory
of the triune brain is true. It’s a good way of referring to a very complicated
business, the development and transformation of unfold
What's It Really Like in the Academy?
by Christopher Chantrill
WE´VE ALL HEARD the horror stories about the intellectual left-wing terrorism in the nation´s
universities, but still wonder: Is it really like that?
Writer Steve Salerno
has just left the academy after a sojourn teaching magazine
journalism, and he should know.
What is it really like? It´s more sad that bad, with minds stuck in the past and mindless
protection of the status quo. Money graf:
Contrary to popular opinion, a surprising degree of unfold
Can't Wait for Single Payer Health Care?
by Christopher Chantrill
AS YOU’D EXPECT, after 60 years Britain’s single payer health care system, aka
the National Health Service, is working like a champ. Not.
Britain’s Panorama program sent an undercover nurse to a Brit hospital
and what they found wasn’t very pretty. Reports
Julie Wheldon
in the Daily Mail:
Miss Haywood and undercover reporter Shabnam Grewal,
who delivered food and drink to patients, unfold
Democrat SCOTUS Agenda, Defending Their Benefits
by Christopher Chantrill
RADIO HOST extraordinaire
Hugh Hewitt
had a grand old time Wednesday making fun of Sen. Barbara Boxer´s (D-CA) remarks
about the Roberts nomination. He likes to joke about her limited mental capacity. As a lawyer and
a former White House aide, maybe he´s got the right to do so.
But let us be serious
for a moment. The advantage of politicians that cannot keep too many thoughts in their heads is that
they give us the straight scoop. And Senator Boxer tells us very clearly what she unfold
When Men Buy and Sell Women
by Christopher Chantrill
IN THE REGIONS of China bordering on North Korea men are now buying and selling
North Korean women like chattels,
Donna M. Hughes reports.
Women and children are increasingly the majority of refugees
crossing the river into China. If they can locate a friend or relative’s
house, they have a chance at finding a safe haven. But if the ethnic
Korean Chinese traffickers find them first, they are abducted and sold,
either to men as informal wives or unfold
Roberts Nomination: Strategery at Work
by Christopher Chantrill
THE FIRST REACTIONS to the nomination of Judge John G. Roberts to the U.S. Supreme Court indicate that the Bush Administration has thought long and hard about court nominations. Roberts is young, brilliant, boringly straight arrow, and has only been on the bench for a year and a half. Thus Charles Hurt forecasts an easy nomination process, and John Podhoretz evaluates him as suitably unfold
Sphere: Related Content | | perm | comment | print | 07/20/05 4:34 am ETAmerican Buy Hybrids for Power
by Christopher Chantrill
HERE IN SEATTLE just about every liberal in the city
is driving around contentedly in a Toyota Prius saving oodles of
gasoline with Toyota’s Hybrid Synergy Drive®. They have the same conceited look
on their faces as shoppers at PCC Natural Markets while they watch their groceries being
bagged into their own bags that they bring to the market. Not for them the evils of non-recyclable plastic sacks.
But all is not well in the hybrid car business. Most Americans buy hybrids not
for the gas mileage or to save the environment. unfold
Our Pals in India
by Christopher Chantrill
IT HAS TAKEN too long, but now at last the United States and India are getting it on. Since
Indians are taking over the tech industry and the motel industry in the US, why not?
Bruce Fein makes the argument for closer ties as Indian Prime Minister Singh makes
a visit to Washington DC.
But the real measure of alignment between India and the United States is highways. And here there
is real progress. India is getting serious about building a world-class unfold
Religion in Britain. It's There If You Look
by Christopher Chantrill
THE BRITISH are considered to be irreligious, with both the established Church of England and the Catholic Church
experiencing steady decline. But there is life in the world of religion, as
Danny Kruger reports from
Pontins, a British holiday camp where folks will be attending
“the annual evangelical jamboree organised by Holy Trinity, Brompton.”
Christianity in London radiates out in concentric black and white rings. unfold
Kenyan: Stop the Aid to Africa!
by Christopher Chantrill
THINK FOR A minute about what aid does to Africa. If you send them free grain then
you put African farmers out of business. If you send them free clothes then you put
African garment workers out of work. That’s why the Kenyan economist
James Shikwati says: “For God’s sake, please just stop the aid.” Here is
how the distribution of free corn devastates Africa.
He cites the distribution of corn and clothes as examples
of “do-goodism” gone wrong, hurting those it sets out to help in an
endless circle unfold
Guess What? Lefties Need More Campus Speakers
by Christopher Chantrill
AND YOU THOUGHT that the only way you could get to speak to America´s college students was
if you had impeccable left-wing credientials?
No. Wrong Again. Apparently the left really has a problem on campus countering
the Young Americans for Freedom and
so George Soros has launched a new speaker´s bureau. Writes
Jason Mattera:
Campus Progress, a project of billionaire George Soros’s unfold
Slackers at the Office
by Christopher Chantrill
AMERICAN WORKERS are slackers. We goof off to the tune of
“$759 billion a year in salaries for which [employers] receive no apparent benefit.”
Why do employers put up with it? Lawrence Henry thinks he knows.
I spent a year in an advertising agency where we worked very hard, especially hard on those four occasions a year when the company´s nationwide sales force got together and we had to create displays, training programs, and media material unfold
Remembering Dorothy Fields
by Christopher Chantrill
TODAY IS JULY 15, 2005, the centenary of Dorothy Fields. You know her, of course. She
wrote some of the greatest songs of the greatest song era in history. As in the Louis Armstrong
favorite:
Or if you prefer there is the incomparable:
Grab your coat and get your hat
Leave your worries on the doorstep
Life can be so sweet
On the Sunny Side of the Street Someday, when I’m awfully low,
When the world is cold,
I will feel a glow just thinking of you
And The Way You Look unfold
Thank You Mr. President
by Christopher Chantrill
IF YOU HAVEN´T completely surrendered to the Plame Game, you´ll know that the feds just lowered their deficit estimate for this year by $94 billion to $333 billion. Why did this happen? There were several one-time-only factors, but the big reason is that non-payroll deduction tax collections have soared this year. In other words, businesses and individuals are racking up higher profits and capital gains and the federal unfold
Sphere: Related Content | | perm | comment | print | 07/15/05 4:33 am ETUnderstanding Rove & Plame
by Christopher Chantrill
AS YOU LIGHTHEARTEDLY skim through important opinion pieces from good
conservative pundits like Ann Coulter,
some of you RMC readers may not yet understand the fundamentals of the blood-in-the-water
Karl Rove affair. You may not understand what it is all about.
It is quite simple. There is an eternal principle of American
politics that explains the whole thing.
Whenever a Democrat lies, a Republican must resign.
Remember unfold
Turner on Intelligent Design
by Christopher Chantrill
RMC CHAPPIE Frederick Turner wades into the Intelligent Design debate and finds
both sides wanting (here).
The argument over evolution, Turner says, is important because of the way that it affects the
argument over the moral law, the foundation for the government´s law.
Does the theory of evolution make God unnecessary to the very existence
of the world? If there is no God, what authority, if any, guarantees the moral law of unfold
Terrorists Born in Britain
by Christopher Chantrill
NOW THAT THEY know that the 7/7 bombers were native Britons of Pakistani descent—and that one of them was an elementary school teacher—the Brits are sobering up fast. They can´t just blame the whole thing on the Yanks or the Iraq War or a bunch of bored rich Saudis. The bombers were Brits, children of the welfare state, for gosh sakes. Writes Conservative Member of Parliament Boris unfold
Sphere: Related Content | | perm | comment | print | 07/13/05 4:22 pm ETHow Much Publicity on Terror is Enough?
by Christopher Chantrill
SOME CONSERVATIVES are outraged that the MSM isn’t devoting enough attention to the
London terror bombings of 7/7.Tony Blankley notes
the outrage of Michael Savage that by the weekend after 7/7 the MSM had switched their
attention from terror bombing to important matters like baby pandas, hurricanes, and the
breathtaking story of Karl Rove and the leak.
And of course there was also the scandal of the BBC emptying its coverage of the
emotional word unfold
Breaking the SoSoc Ice Jam
by Christopher Chantrill
IT USED TO be called the Third Rail. That was when Democrats believed that
they could electrocute any Republican that touched Social Security. Now it looks
more like an ice jam on an arctic river. The two sides are straining mightily, the Republicans
to Do Something, and the Democrats to avoid doing anything.
Now some Republicans are
trying to finesse the politics of Social Security with a bill to stop the skimming of the Social Security “surplus,”
the difference between the amount the federal government takes in every unfold
The Iraq Connection
by Christopher Chantrill
THE CENTRAL argument against the Iraq invasion has been for some time that Iraq is a diversion in
the War on Terror. The main front was in Afghanistan and in breaking up terror cells around the world, but not in
Iraq.
Of course, nobody has said that the 9/11 attacks were planned in Saddam´s office in Baghdad, but the
evidence is pretty clear that Saddamite Iraq had allied itself with Al Qaeda and saw itself as part of
a coalition of forces opposing the power of the United States.
Rich Republicans? Not Yet
by Christopher Chantrill
WHAT ABOUT that old chestnut that the Republican Party is the party of the rich and the
Democratic Party is the party of the poor? Is it true? Well, not exactly.
According to recent census numbers, the Democratic Party is the party of the rich and the
poor. But where does that leave Republicans?
It leaves them with everyone else, and that is a majority of Americans. The Republican Party is
the party of the aspiring or maybe, more exactly, the party of the perspiring. Democrats are people
who get their income from trust unfold
In "Eurabia," The Euros will be the Jews
by Christopher Chantrill
THE PIERCING mind of Mark Steyn sees irony and more ahead in what he calls the “Israelification of Europe.” The fight over Israel is an argument to see which culture shall hold sway over Palestine, the Israeli or the Islamic. In Europe they decided some time ago that Israelis were occupiers and Palestinians were helpless victims. For the Euros that legitimated the decision of the unfold
Sphere: Related Content | | perm | comment | print | 07/11/05 9:14 am ETEnthusiastic Christianity? In London?
by Christopher Chantrill
IT´S NOT JUST Al Qaeda that is taking over in London. At the Dominion Theatre in the London theater district is Hillsong, an enthusiastic church for twenty-something Brits who are in to “praying and swaying.” And they push contributions: “God wants to give you great riches, [they´ll] say, but you´ve got to prove first that you´re willing to give to Him.” Mary Wakefield is not unfold
Sphere: Related Content | | perm | comment | print | 07/10/05 2:25 pm ETWhat Will the Brits Do Next?
by Christopher Chantrill
EVERYONE IS hanging out the British Union Jack today
in solidarity with our British
friends after the Tube Tragedy on 7/7, and so we should. But we’d better not expect
the Brits to be sticking their necks out any more in the War on Terror. Actually,
as official pessimist John Derbyshire suggests, we
won’t really have a real war on terror until a western city gets hit by
a nuclear device. Only then will things get “tribal.”
Ever since World unfold
Even Saudis Don't Like Saudi Government
by Christopher Chantrill
THOSE OF US that worry about the Saudi monarchy and its extremist Wahhabi ideology have company. The
inhabitants of Saudi Arabia. Most of the Saudis think of the ibn Saud family as oppressors and Saudi
Arabia as an empire.
Frontpagemag´s Jamie Glasov
interviews John R. Bradley, author of Saudi Arabia Exposed:
A Kingdom in Crisis. Saudi Arabia is not exactly the monolithic fundamentalist state
we´ve been told about.
The people of Saudi Arabia have unfold
Pitch Perfect Blair on London Terror Blasts
by Christopher Chantrill
ON THE DAY that the terror war comes to London Tony Blair hits exactly the right note:
and also:
I think we all know what they are trying to do.
They are trying to use the slaughter of innocent people to cow us,
to frighten us out of doing the things that we want to do, trying
to stop us from going about our business as normal, as we are entitled to do
and they should not and they must not succeed.
It is important, however, that those engaged in terrorism
realise that our determination to unfold
More Money to Fight Aging?
by Christopher Chantrill
THE BIOGERONTOLOGISTS, the scientists of aging, are worried.
“Public funding for ageing research is far lower than it should be.”
And Instapundit Glenn Harlan Reynolds
seems to agree. The problem is that most people believe that “aging is not a disease”
when plainly, writes Reynolds, any visit to a nursing facility will show you that it plainly is.
Aging is a disease, a disorder, a killer. We should be doing something about unfold
Go Ahead, Make My Day
by Christopher Chantrill
EVERYBODY AGREES that the current battles over judicial nominations are abominable. Why can´t we all just get along? Tony Blankley shows how even a foot soldier in the judicial wars like Senator Joseph Biden (D-Del) can can do his bit to poison the process by equating conservative principles with “ideology.” But maybe the ruthless partisan attacks on conservative judicial nominees by hard-left liberal interest groups like Ralph Neas´ People for the unfold
Sphere: Related Content | | perm | comment | print | 07/06/05 4:30 am ETDon't Call Me Redneck
by Christopher Chantrill
ECONOMIST AND writer Thomas Sowell has spent a lifetime trying to understand the culture and history of the black people. So have many others. Since Sowell is a black conservative he has preferred not to look for explanation in all the usual places: racism, sexism, imperialism, and classism. Instead he has developed intriging theories about the different races and cultures of the immigrants that came to the United States. Above all he wanted to know why his own unfold
Sphere: Related Content | | perm | comment | print | 07/04/05 8:00 pm ETSteyn: Send Your Own Fokkin' Money, Sir Bob
by Christopher Chantrill
IT´S A LITTLE rich for pop star multi-millionaires to demand that rich-nation taxpayers
cough up and send money to Africa, says
Mark Steyn,
when they are sparing no effort to keep their money away from the tax
man.
Take the late Linda, Lady McCartney. Writes Steyn:
Seven years ago, you´ll recall, Sir Paul [McCartney]´s wife died of cancer.
Linda McCartney had been a resident of the unfold
One in Ten Brit Kids Has Gun
by Christopher Chantrill
IN BRITAIN, where guns are illegal, “one in ten teenage schoolboys
has carried some kind of gun in the past year, according to the largest study on
the impact of Britain’s firearms culture on urban youth.” That is the lede in a news report
in the London Times
on the Blair government´s new crime reduction bill.
Er, am I missing something here? “Britain´s firearms culture?” I thought the
British were a peacable people that didn´t have a gun unfold
A Century of Helping Africa
by Christopher Chantrill
THAT CHARLES Dickens was already able to satirize aid to Africa in Bleak House in the person of Mrs. Jellyby, the woman who busied herself saving Africa while neglecting her own household, ought to tell us something. The Live8 enthusiasts who entertained millions over the weekend might be interested to know that Bleak House was first published in 1853, one hundred fifty years ago.
Sphere: Related Content | | perm | comment | print | 07/03/05 6:04 pm ETLa Donna e Mobile
by Christopher Chantrill
THAT´S ITALIAN for girls just don´t like to bother their pretty little heads with
anything boring like consistency, and it´s presumably what
lawyers must have hummed as they pitched their Supreme Court
arguments to Swinging Sandy.
According to
Mark Steyn
the Sixties didn´t end when the Beatles split up. They just
kept right on swinging with Sandra Day O´Connor, the girl on the Supreme Court who just
couldn´t make up her mind one way or the other.
Now she´s unfold
Liberals Want Ideological Quotas on Supreme Court
by Christopher Chantrill
OUR BELOVED American liberals are nothing if not transparent. After introducing us to
the joys of racial quotas at the
university and gender quotas in the firehouse now they want to impose ideological quotas on the United States
Supreme Court.
But thanks to the piercing insights of postmodernism—another priceless gift to the world from
liberals—we can understand what they are about. They want to preserve their power.
Liberals understand that the best they can
hope for is to keep the ideological balance in the Court unfold
SCOTUS: Who Will Control the Narrative?
by Christopher Chantrill
WITH THE ANNOUNCEMENT by
Sandra Day O´Connor
of her resignation from the U.S. Supreme Court after 24 years on the bench the battle is on to confirm her successor. And you couldn´t have set up the
battlefield better. Could the wily Karl Rove, master strategist, have asked for a better setup to the Big Push than
the scandalous decisions on eminent domain and the Ten Commandments just reached?
Ever since the Bork nomination of 1987, unfold
Faith & Purpose
“When we began first to preach these things, the people appeared as awakened from the sleep of ages—they seemed to see for the first time that they were responsible beings...”
Finke, Stark, The Churching of America, 1776-1990
Mutual Aid
In 1911... at least nine million of the 12 million covered by national insurance were already members of voluntary sick pay schemes. A similar proportion were also eligible for medical care.
Green, Reinventing Civil Society
Education
“We have met with families in which for weeks together, not an article of sustenance but potatoes had been used; yet for every child the hard-earned sum was provided to send them to school.”
E. G. West, Education and the State
Living Under Law
Law being too tenuous to rely upon in [Ulster and the Scottish borderlands], people developed patterns of settling differences by personal fighting and family feuds.
Thomas Sowell, Conquests and Cultures
German Philosophy
The primary thing to keep in mind about German and Russian thought since
1800 is that it takes for granted that the Cartesian, Lockean or Humean scientific and
philosophical conception of man and nature... has been shown by indisputable evidence to be
inadequate.
F.S.C. Northrop, The Meeting of East and West
Knowledge
Inquiry does not start unless there is a problem... It is the problem and its
characteristics revealed by analysis which guides one first to the relevant facts and then,
once the relevant facts are known, to the relevant hypotheses.
F.S.C. Northrop, The Logic of the Sciences and the Humanities
Chappies
“But I saw a man yesterday who knows a fellow who had it from a chappie
that said that Urquhart had been dipping himself a bit recklessly off the deep end.”
—Freddy Arbuthnot
Dorothy L. Sayers, Strong Poison
Democratic Capitalism
I mean three systems in one: a predominantly market economy; a polity respectful of the rights of the individual to life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness; and a system of cultural institutions moved by ideals of liberty and justice for all.
In short, three dynamic and converging systems functioning as one: a democratic polity, an economy based on markets and incentives, and a moral-cultural system which is plural and, in the largest sense, liberal.
Michael Novak, The Spirit of Democratic Capitalism
Action
The incentive that impels a man to act is always some uneasiness...
But to make a man act [he must have]
the expectation that purposeful behavior has the power to remove
or at least to alleviate the felt uneasiness.
Ludwig von Mises, Human Action
Churches
[In the] higher Christian churches… they saunter through the liturgy like Mohawks along a string of scaffolding who have long since forgotten their danger. If God were to blast such a service to bits, the congregation would be, I believe, genuinely shocked. But in the low churches you expect it every minute.
Annie Dillard, Holy the Firm
Conversion
“When we received Christ,” Phil added, “all of a sudden we now had a rule book to go by, and when we had problems the preacher was right there to give us the answers.”
James M. Ault, Jr., Spirit and Flesh
Living Law
The recognition and integration of extralegal property rights [in the Homestead Act] was a key element in the United States becoming the most important market economy and producer of capital in the world.
Hernando de Soto, The Mystery of Capital
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