Why is history important? Without history, many people have no idea how many of today's half-baked ideas have been tried, again and again - and have repeatedly led to disaster. Most of these ideas are not new. They are just being recycled with re-treaded rhetoric.

People who have never run even a modest little business assert with great certainty and indignation that heads of multinational corporations are paid much more than they are worth. People who know nothing about medicine and nothing about economics unhesi.

A moral monopoly is the antithesis of a marketplace of ideas.

Government restrictions are attractive to people who want to impose their pet notions without having to count the costs.

To say that being non-judgmental is better than being judgmental is itself a judgment, and therefore a violation of principle.

The welfare state is not really about the welfare of the masses. It is about the egos of the elites.

To include freedom in the very definition of democracy is to define a process not by its actual characteristics as a process but by its hoped for results. This is not only intellectually invalid, it is, in practical terms, blinding oneself in advance to some of the unwanted consequences of the process.