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Logical Atheism: Neither Materialism nor Spiritualism
Not ghosts. Not robots. Persons.
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Sheldon Richman
TGIF: Thomas Szasz - Unappreciated Libertarian
I maintain that mental illness is a metaphorical disease: that bodily illness stands in the same relation to mental illness as a defective television…
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Thomas Szasz: Champion of Freedom
Today is the 104th anniversary of the birth of Thomas Szasz (1920-2012), the great if unappreciated libertarian and defender of individual autonomy and…
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TGIF: Why Isn't Antifa Marching for Apple?
Antitrust is fascistic
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Israel, Zionism, Jews, and Anti-Semitism
"In some quarters anger at Israel's brutal occupation has undoubtedly spilled over to an animus toward Jews generally. But however lamentable, it's…
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TGIF: Static Analysis Clouds Immigration Debate
Rookie error.
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Why I Pick on Israel
People close to me ask why I criticize Israel while ignoring the other bad governments in the world. (I guess they don't count the U.S. government as…
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Israel Gives Cover to Anti-Semites
Israel identifies itself as the Jewish state and claims to represent "the Jewish people" everywhere, not only Jewish Israelis. Thus Israel's atrocious…
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March 2024

TGIF: Israel Humiliated
To more fully understand the ferocity of Israel's massacre of the people of the Gaza Strip, it's perhaps worth considering that on October 7, 2023, the…
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Ban "Ethnic Cleansing"
I propose that we defenders of individual rights stop using the term ethnic cleansing. Why? Because it is the sort of euphemism bad people would use to…
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But Hamas...
When Israel's defenders bring up Hamas's execrable anti-Semitic and genocidal charter, they should be reminded that for decades before the 1948…
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Beware: The Government Is People
Who else?
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