OWS and Capitalism – who are the real bad guys?
Saying “it’s not capitalism that’s the problem, it’s CRONY capitalism” is, how shall I put it, weak! Who is going to take the time and trouble to make the distinction? Plus the fact that capitalism is used in both phrases means that capitalism still gets tarred with the same brush.
“The original goal was INDIVIDUAL freedom”
These days, capitalism has a bad name. Is capitalism evil? Is it an idea whose time has come and gone? Surely we need big government these days? Artist and journalist Jon Rappaport examines the original purposes of the U.S. founding fathers and of the Constitution, and produces one of the most succinct appraisals of the [...]
Atlas Shrugged revival
(The first part of this post is cross-posted from another blog of mine). As well as re-reading Atlas Shrugged for the next session of my Reading Group, I’ve also assigned The Fountainhead to a returnee student whose English is fluent. I’ve been creating worksheets for him, and will be posting them online, possibly here. According [...]
