Philosophy 101

Today, I celebrate my birthday. Well, not really. I should call it my re-birthday. You see, I grew up in East Berlin, and today twenty years have passed since the Fall of the Berlin Wall. I was 8 years old, living in Moscow on that day. Little did I know that it would not only [...]

(Let us set aside the many ways in which goverment interference, through onerous regulations, stifles the profit making ability of businesses.) The essential argument to make against business bailouts is this: Bailing out enterprises like GM means forcing the consumer, i.e. the tax payer, to pay money to GM without receiving anything in return. The [...]

Two very chilling items from the environmentalist camp Down Under, proving that environmentalism ultimately seeks to sacrifice humans for the sake of nature:

In an effort to overcome my writer’s block and create more content, I have added a new feature to my site. Do you you have a question, an issue or a problem that you, my treasured readers, would like me to discuss? Fear not, submit them, and a philosopher (that’s me) will come to the [...]

Generally, it seems that perspective is often lost on people. For example, sure enough, gasoline prices have gone up. Paying $4 at the pump for a gallon of joyride fuel hurts especially when one considers that it was so much cheaper only so very recently. But it helps to see the bigger picture.

The first Earth Day was celebrated in 1970. It was the result of the alarm bells of the environmental doom and gloom movement going off nonstop. As Ronald Bailey observes,

Earth Day 1970 provoked a torrent of apocalyptic predictions.