Did you know that Yaron Brook has a new show that is broadcasted weekly on Saturdays at 4 PM Eastern on AM 560 The Answer in Chicago? He does and in the most recent episode, which was broadcasted on February 20, 2016, Dr. Brook commented on the conflict between Apple and the FBI.
Equal Is Unfair: America’s Misguided Fight Against Income Inequality, by bestselling authors Don Watkins and Yaron Brook, is the first book to make the comprehensive case against inequality critics like Bernie Sanders, Hillary Clinton and Paul Krugman.
Tara Smith will be participating in three talks in North Carolina on February 10 and 11, during which she will present some of the ideas from her new book, Judicial Review in an Objective Legal System. These talks are just the latest in a series that began in the fall of 2015 to promote Dr. Smith’s new book to students, legal practitioners, and intellectuals.
Evan Bernick, assistant director of the Center for Judicial Engagement at the Institute for Justice, recently published a review of Dr. Tara Smith’s new book, Judicial Review in an Objective Legal System.
How should courts interpret the law? Strictly according to the text? By lawmakers’ original intent? By the needs of today’s society? Philosophical ideals? In this talk, Tara Smith, professor of philosophy and BB&T Chair for the Study of Objectivism at the University of Texas at Austin, argues that the best laws in the world are useless if misunderstood.
Today’s leading critics of economic inequality tell us that, unless we’re “privileged,” success is impossible, that the “have-nots” cannot rise through their own productive efforts, and that the desire for extraordinary success is greedy and immoral. In this talk, Don Watkins argues that these ideas are false and pernicious.
I’m not a huge golf fan — truth be told, I know next to nothing about the sport. But I nevertheless was fascinated by Tiger Woods’s recent interview with Time magazine, where he talked about the prospect of having to retire from golf at the age of 40 due to injury.
Given that there are so many people today who believe that offensive speech ought to be outlawed, it’s worth rehearsing the crucial legal and moral difference between free speech and crime.
