Anyone who is not a liberal at 20 years of age has no heart,while anyone who is still a liberal at 40 has no head.— Winston Churchill (1874-1965) quoted inThe Hartford Courant, a Connecticut newspaper. Two recent surveys are quite alarming, but we should not be surprised that the mainstream media have promulgated them with […]
Millennials — anti-capitalist, progressive (socialist) American youth? Read More »
“A Conservative is a fellow who is standing athwart history yelling ‘Stop!’ “— William F. Buckley, Jr. In the context of my article on this subject,[1] I have been asked if there is also a classical versus modern conservatism paradigm similar to the classical versus modern liberalism, and was invited to write an article about
The historical meaning of political conservatism by Miguel A. Faria, MD Read More »
The term “liberal” originally stemmed from the human quest for free inquiry and the study of the liberal arts. Aristotle explained that the greatest pleasure a free man could possess is to have the economic means to indulge himself in the study of nature, books, science (philosophy) — and the liberals arts, rather than to
Classical Liberalism vs Modern Liberalism (Socialism) — A Primer by Miguel A. Faria, MD Read More »
In a recent letter to the editor printed in the Macon Telegraph 9/1/10, Joni Woolf, a Georgia author and self-described “activist with strong ties to the Democratic Party,” began her letter innocently enough by stating: “I read with interest the story of Glenn Beck’s march on Washington and how he and his crowd of loyal
Faria: Democrat Resentment: Bashing the USA and Traditional Values Read More »
