LEADER 04952nam 2200601Ia 450 001 9910786346703321 005 20231002224354.0 010 $a0-8179-3983-0 035 $a(CKB)2670000000276523 035 $a(EBL)1370736 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000798946 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11462975 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000798946 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10755164 035 $a(PQKB)10471777 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC3301831 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL3301831 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10622884 035 $a(CaONFJC)MIL551715 035 $a(OCoLC)253501187 035 $a(EXLCZ)992670000000276523 100 $a20030911h20042004 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur|n|---||||| 181 $ctxt$2rdacontent 182 $cc$2rdamedia 183 $acr$2rdacarrier 200 10$aNeither left nor right $eselected columns /$fTibor R. Machan 210 1$aStanford, Calif. :$cHoover Institution Press,$d2004. 210 4$aŠ2004 215 $a1 online resource (xii, 312 pages) 225 1 $aHoover Institution Press publication ;$vno. 522 311 0 $a0-8179-3982-2 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index. 327 $aFront 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"; The Cult of Feeling: Reason versus Emotion; The World from One's Own Point of View 327 $aWhat 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; 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 327 $aAn 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; 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? 327 $aAt 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?; 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 327 $aPost-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?; Hungary 1990: A Visit to an Abandoned Homeland; A Most Peculiar Nostalgia; 10. Life Is Good; A Fan of KLON-FM (Now KKJZ), 88.1; Sinatra's Pizzazz; How I Learned to Love the Rich; Now Beauty Is a Liability?; Back to All That's Beautiful; Entranced from the Start by "Here's Johnny"; Meanings of Christmas; Affirm the Joy of Living Right, Here on Earth; Afterword: Last Reflections; What I Have Done and Why; Index 330 $aIn Neither Left nor Right, a collection of his columns, Machan, a relentless advocate of the political philosophy of libertarianism, offers his always well-reasoned, often controversial opinions on the variety of threats to individual liberty in the United States and around the world. 410 0$aHoover Institution Press publication ;$v522. 606 $aPolitical ethics$zUnited States 607 $aUnited States$xPolitics and government$y1989- 615 0$aPolitical ethics 676 $a973.929 700 $aMachan$b Tibor R$0120079 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910786346703321 996 $aNeither left nor right$93766535 997 $aUNINA