Justice

A judgment from the Bombay High Court- A leave-and-licence agreement does not confer the licensee any right on the property, the Bombay high court has held. “Leave-and-licence generally does not create a right in the property or interest in the property,” a division bench of Justice S B Mhase and Justice Prasanna Varale said. “It [...]

Parallels

I finally finished reading Peikoff’s book (“The Ominous Parallels”) yesterday, two-odd months after I started it. I will (hopefully) write about it in some future post, but the following extract shows the parallels between the Germany of the 1930s and the USA of today. This is not to say that the US will adopt National [...]

Some posts

Conscience of a real liberal- One of the great tenets of liberalism — the true sort of liberalism, not the dirigiste ignorance that today, in English-speaking countries, flatters itself unjustifiably with that term — is that no human being is less worthy just because he or she is outside of a particular group. Any randomly [...]

A philosophical question

Imagine a despotic country where people are not allowed to do anything except that which is specifically permitted by the government. So everything is a crime – smoking a cigarette, consuming drugs, drinking alcohol, adultery, girls and boys walking on the road – hand-in-hand, not standing up while singing the national anthem, not paying the [...]

“A sacred lie”

Doug French of the Mises Institute reviews a book- New president Barack Obama’s $3.55 trillion budget serves notice that if you thought government couldn’t get any bigger or more intrusive, think again. The budget “represents real and dramatic change,” according to the President. But really the Obama plan is just more of the same, with [...]