Capitalism Archive

  • On April 21, 2012, Freedom Party of Ontario held its “Red Alert” dinner on the top floor of the Primrose Hotel in Toronto. The video of the event is being released in parts. This second part features a speech by Freedom Party officer and election campaign manager Robert Vaughan, who MC’d the event.

    The fall of civilization

    On April 21, 2012, Freedom Party of Ontario held its “Red Alert” dinner on the top floor of the Primrose Hotel in Toronto. The video of the event is being released in parts. This second part features a speech by Freedom Party officer and election campaign manager Robert Vaughan, who MC’d the event.

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  • GUEST: The Rt Hon Christopher Monckton, Autodidactic Mathematician, Game Designer, Architect, Journalist, Politician, Skeptic GUEST: Professor Christopher Essex, Dept Of Applied Mathematics And Past Director, Theoretical Physics, UWO; Co-Author Of Taken By Storm Global Warming – Has All The Hot Air Dissipated? Advising Former Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher – Changing The Views Of The Iron Lady From SudoKu X To...

    Just Right #241 – Guests: Lord Christopher Monckton / Professor Christopher Essex

    GUEST: The Rt Hon Christopher Monckton, Autodidactic Mathematician, Game Designer, Architect, Journalist, Politician, Skeptic GUEST: Professor Christopher Essex, Dept Of Applied Mathematics And Past Director, Theoretical Physics, UWO; Co-Author Of Taken By Storm Global Warming – Has All The Hot Air Dissipated? Advising Former Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher – Changing The Views Of The Iron Lady From SudoKu X To...

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  • In 1986, Peter Schwartz, of The Intellectual Activist and Chairman of the Board of Advisors of the Ayn Rand Institute, wrote an analysis of Libertarianism called Libertarianism: The Perversion of Liberty.  In it he takes apart the philosophy of Libertarianism and lays it bare. What is left is a failed movement of the left, not unlike the Occupy Wall Street...

    Libertarianism

    In 1986, Peter Schwartz, of The Intellectual Activist and Chairman of the Board of Advisors of the Ayn Rand Institute, wrote an analysis of Libertarianism called Libertarianism: The Perversion of Liberty.  In it he takes apart the philosophy of Libertarianism and lays it bare. What is left is a failed movement of the left, not unlike the Occupy Wall Street...

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  • Although the occupiers of Wall Street are for the most part, incoherent in their message one phrase has been repeated often enough to be recognized as a particular grievance of the participants, “crony capitalism.” Cronyism has generally been understood to mean the hiring or promotion of one’s friends into positions of authority or responsibility.   If it takes place in the...

    Hyphenated-capitalism

    Although the occupiers of Wall Street are for the most part, incoherent in their message one phrase has been repeated often enough to be recognized as a particular grievance of the participants, “crony capitalism.” Cronyism has generally been understood to mean the hiring or promotion of one’s friends into positions of authority or responsibility.   If it takes place in the...

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  • Last Thursday a little girl was run over on a street in Foshan City in Communist China.  A dozen passersby ignored her writhing moaning body as it lay in a pool of blood.  Another truck came by, slowed down, and then ran over her legs.  Yet more passersby ignored her until a garbage collector came and moved her to the...

    Love of life – the root of compassion

    Last Thursday a little girl was run over on a street in Foshan City in Communist China.  A dozen passersby ignored her writhing moaning body as it lay in a pool of blood.  Another truck came by, slowed down, and then ran over her legs.  Yet more passersby ignored her until a garbage collector came and moved her to the...

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  • My first recollection of Star Trek wasn’t its philosophy or its depiction of a positive future of heroes and adventure.  It was being frightened at the image of Balok in “The Corbomite Maneuver”.  I was only six or seven years old after all. Despite that I was an avid fan of the show since it first aired I have seen...

    Star Trek – Gods and capitalists

    My first recollection of Star Trek wasn’t its philosophy or its depiction of a positive future of heroes and adventure.  It was being frightened at the image of Balok in “The Corbomite Maneuver”.  I was only six or seven years old after all. Despite that I was an avid fan of the show since it first aired I have seen...

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