Law & Public Safety
The Constitution and Its Enemies
(In honor or Constitution Day, I’m reposting this Opinion Piece that originally appeared in the Carolina Journal in 2019.) The title of this piece pays homage to Karl Popper’s great…
Karl Popper
Austrian-British philosopher of science and social and política e falsificationism and for criticism of Plato, Hegel and Marx as totalitarian opponents of open society (1902-1994)
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Law & Public Safety
Looking on the bright side: a 2020 election dialogue
My level of anxiety increased steadily throughout the summer as each morning brought news of more violent protests in cities across the country and as the Democrats pursued their relentless…
Research Brief
Education
The Open Society and Its (New) Enemies, Part 1
Karl Popper wrote The Open Society and Its Enemies during the Second World War in an attempt to explain and refute the totalitarian ideologies that had delivered Europe into the hands…
Law & Public Safety
The Constitution and Its Enemies
The Constitution and Its Enemies This week, JLF’s Jon Guze published an opinion piece in Carolina Journal for Constitution Day 2019. Guze’s piece focused on the principles inherent in the…
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Law & Public Safety
The Constitution and Its Enemies
The title of this piece pays homage to Karl Popper’s great work of political philosophy, The Open Society and Its Enemies. Popper wrote the book during the Second World War in…
Energy
Climate alarmist loses defamation suit
Thomas Lifson of the American Thinker highlights an important court victory for free speech. Michael Mann, a climatologist at Penn State University, is the creator of the “hockey stick graph”…
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Budget, Taxation & Economy
The Scientific Method and Its Enemies
These days, if Karl Popper is remembered at all, he is usually remembered for The Open Society and Its Enemies—his blistering two-volume attack on the philosophical foundations of Fascism and…
Law & Public Safety
Lucky to Be Here
View in your browser. Earlier this month the Department of Justice finally released a report summarizing its investigation of the Ferguson, Missouri Police Department. Some have denounced the report as…
Energy
Another critique of that climate change ‘consensus’
Think the world knows enough about global warming and climate change, and it’s time to shut down debate on the topic? Perhaps you should read Rupert Darwall‘s thoughts on the…
Liberty
The ongoing impact of Plato and Aristotle
Think two Greeks who died more than 2,300 years ago have little to tell us about today’s political climate? Arthur Herman asks you to think again. The history professor and…
Liberty
Bad Info Trumps Good Info?
If you didn’t make it down to the Westin on Monday, here is quick overview of what Dan Henninger laid out. I still haven’t worked out how all this squares…
Liberty
La la la la … now global warming theory explains less intense hurricanes
Global warming is a Procrustean bed: everything fits the theory, and anything that doesn’t will either be stretched till it fits or chopped till it fits. It’s pseudoscience. It’s not…