Format:
Online-Ressource (xii, 312 p)
Edition:
Online-Ausg.
ISBN:
0817939830
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0817939881
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9780817939830
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9780817939885
Series Statement:
Hoover Institution Press publication no. 522
Content:
In Neither Left nor Right, a collection of his columns, Machan, a relentless advocate of the political philosophy of libertarianism, offers his always well-reasoned, often controversial opinions on the variety of threats to individual liberty in the United States and around the world
Note:
Available in print
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Includes index
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Includes bibliographical references and index
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""Front Cover ""; ""Book Title""; ""Copyright ""; ""Contents""; ""Acknowledgments""; ""Preface""; ""1. Foundations ""; ""Why Liberty Is Necessary for Morality""; ""Is Human Nature Good or Evil?""; ""What Free Will Is and Why It Matters""; ""What Is the Nature of Self-Interest?""; ""Freedom: Local and National""; ""Principles and Flexibility""; ""The Proper View of Government""; ""The Merits of the Slippery Slope""; ""The Right to Post One�s Sign""; ""Follow-up to the American Revolution: Abolish Taxation""; ""2. How To Think""; ""The Fashionableness of Thinking “Out of the Box�""
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""The Cult of Feeling: Reason versus Emotion""""The World from One�s Own Point of View""; ""What Do You Mean, “We�?""; ""Calculating Bad Side Effects""; ""3. The Independent Self""; ""Why Moral Virtue Is on the Wane""; ""Government and Business�Some Telling Differences""; ""Sports in America""; ""Celebrating Liberty, Not Conformity""; ""A Modest Look at Self-Importance""; ""How Would You Like Being Unfairly Disliked?""; ""4. Sex and Politics in America ""; ""The Crisis of Trust""; ""Liberty versus Democracy""; ""The Left�s Strange Opposition to Preemptive War""
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""A Very Sad Perspective on Sexuality""""Clinton�s Duplicity toward Women""; ""Live and Let Live�Everywhere""; ""Never Mind One�s Cultural “Identity�""; ""Beat-Them-to-a-Pulp Fiction""; ""An Open Letter to My Children""; ""5. Capitalism and Its Critics ""; ""Liberation or Imperialism?""; ""On “Giving Back to the Community�""; ""Why Islamists Detest America""; ""Business Ethics Distortions""; ""Why I Am a Proud Market Fundamentalist""; ""Wells Fargo and the Press""; ""Why No Protest over NPR/PBS?""; ""The Cheerleaders of Envy""; ""6. The Individual versus the State ""
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""The Myth of the Public Interest""""Public Education Is a Bad Idea�for the 76354th Time!""; ""Where�s the ACLU Now?""; ""Guilty before Being Proven So""; ""Forced Paid Leave Is Immoral""; ""Government Internet Infelicities""; ""Why Not Just Force Them to Play?""; ""At Long Last, Prevailing Wisdom Challenged""; ""7. People and Encounters ""; ""Lincoln, Secession, and Slavery""; ""Margaret Thatcher, a Voice to Be Heard""; ""A Medal of “Freedom� for John Kenneth Galbraith""; ""Al Gore, the Dixie Chicks, and Censorship""; ""Has Libertarianism Fallen?""
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""The Courage and Wisdom of Shelby Steele""""Time Is Not Just Money""; ""The Death of a Little-Known Friend of Mine""; ""8. America under Attack ""; ""Too Many 911 Calls?""; ""Hate Crimes and bin Laden�s Gang""; ""Government, Liberty, and Security""; ""Anti-Americanism Isn�t Unusual""; ""The Trap of Humanitarian Wars""; ""9. Endings ""; ""Berlin Wall Came Down""; ""Post-Communist Traumas East and West""; ""Bulgarian Malaise""; ""U.S. Congress v. the INS: In the Matter of Elian Gonzales""; ""An Old Moral Blindness Revisited""; ""Glasnost in Chile?""
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""Hungary 1990: A Visit to an Abandoned Homeland""
Additional Edition:
ISBN 0817939822
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9780817939823
Additional Edition:
Print version Neither Left nor Right : Selected Columns
Language:
English
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