Tag: Freedom

Robert Nozick’s Anarchy, State, and Utopia — at 50

Fifty years ago, Robert Nozick opened his most famous work, Anarchy, State, and Utopia (ASU), with the following words: “Individuals have rights, and there are things no person or group may do to them (without violating their rights). So strong and far-reaching are these rights that they raise the...

Ronald Reagan’s “A Time for Choosing” – 52 years on

Ronald Reagan’s speech supporting Sen. Barry Goldwater’s presidential campaign still speaks to us. “A time for choosing” may be from another, more polite era of political discourse but its themes of deficits, taxes, liberty, security and leadership are more pressing than ever....

Poles (and others) amongst The Few…

This message from Hope Not Hate is spot on: immigration can bring positive as well as negative effects. We are fortunate, today, to live in a country whose freedom was protected in the summer of 1940 by the extraordinary heroism and sacrifice of The Few. We should also not...