“Adding an overarching tier of tyrants - the EU - to European governments has benefited Europeans as a second hangman enhances the health of a condemned man.” MenGovernmentTyrantsHangman Author:Ilana Mercer
“Whatever open-border libertarians think about immigration law, once the immigration scofflaw steals, trespasses, or vandalizes private property, said alien is guilty of crimes. To say, moreover, that the state's laws made masses of men and women commit such crimes is to voice the philosophy of determinism, not individualism.” ThinkingMenMadeSaidStatesPhilosophyLawVoiceCrimeMassMen And WomenPropertyLibertarianStealingImmigrationCommitGuiltyAliensBordersIndividualismPrivate PropertyDeterminismImmigration Laws Author:Ilana Mercer
“If for harming himself a man forfeits his freedom, then he is not free at all.” IfsMenFirstsForfeit Author:Ilana Mercer
“If women with the same skills as men were getting only 78 cents for every dollar a man earns, men would have long-since priced themselves out of the market.” IfsMenLongSkillsDollarsCents Author:Ilana Mercer
“Revive the value of seasoned, stoical masculinity in education. Men in authority are now a threatened minority. Again, and in defense of the pack that piled on Klein, America’s progressive schools are overrun by ineffectual females.” MenAuthorityMinoritiesThreatened Author:Ilana Mercer
“Still - and for all Obama's heavy hinting to the contrary - Islam has no "human rights." The ideas of individual rights and the dignity of man are distinctly Western, an outgrowth of the Enlightenment. And while dialogue is dignified; dhimmitude is not, even if it achieves a desired, if temporary, effect.” IfsMenHumansStillsIdeasIndividualRightsAchieveEffectsEnlightenmentDignityIslamWesternHuman RightsHeavyContraryDialogueTemporaryIndividual Rights Author:Ilana Mercer
“For too long, the U.S. has been operating upon the premise that American men and matériel should be capable of reaching and controlling all corners of the world. This was a bully’s universe.” MenWorldShouldUniversePolicyCapableCornersReachingForeign PolicyBullyPremisesCorners Of The WorldUs Foreign Policy Author:Ilana Mercer
“The nice men in periwigs who came up with the Fourth Amendment were recklessly naive to imagine that branches of a government, each of whose power is enhanced when the power of the other branches grows, would serve to check one another.” MenGovernmentGrowsNiceImagineChecksBranchesAmendmentsFourthImagine ThatNaiveFourth AmendmentNice Man Author:Ilana Mercer
“Ludwig von Mises referred to Ayn Rand as 'the most courageous man in America.' If that doesn't say it all about the economist's man-centric frame of reference, I don't know what does.” IfsKnowsMenDoeAmericaCourageousEconomistFrame Of ReferenceCourageous ManVon Mises Author:Ilana Mercer
“Whether arrived at through reason or revelation, natural law is the highest law known to man. It is anchored in the very existential nature of man and is therefore a priori just.” MenReasonLawNaturalKnownHighestRevelationsExistentialNatural LawNature Of Man Author:Ilana Mercer
“One’s life, liberty and the products of one’s labor were not intended to be up for grabs by grubby, greedy majorities. Contra classical natural law theory, legal positivism equates justice with the law of the state. However, from the fact that most Americans want others to fund or subsidize their health care, it does not follow that they have such a right. A need is not a right.” MenWantNeedsDoeFactsLibertyProductsLaborMajorityFundHealthcareGreedy Author:Ilana Mercer
