War and Peace (1956). I got bored halfway. Henry Fonda, at 51, played Pierre, traditionally a young idealist.
Bus Stop (1956). Fluff. I was curious about it mainly because my hi-skool put on the play one year. I remember being asked to move from my seat in the right front because Beth Amsbary (Cherie) had to change costume behind the bar.
The Wrong Man (1956), Hitchcock. Fairly good. Henry Fonda, 51, played Manny Balestrero, 38.
Heaven Knows, Mr Allison (1957). Enjoyable fluff.
Atheism and Unalienable Rights by Robert E. Meyer (also cited today on RRND):
Skeptics want to deny that rights come from God, but if they are correct, then there is no sound philosophical footings undergirding their perpetual claim to any rights. They are walking on a tenuous tightrope of conceptual fiat. Obviously they have not thought this issue through very carefully. . . .
In other words, atheists who speak of rights are guilty of what Ayn Rand (an atheist) called “the fallacy of the stolen concept”. Obviously Meyer has not taken the time to find a libertarian atheist (how hard can it be?) and ask a few questions. It would be amusing – for a few minutes – to hear him and an Objectivist debate the roots of rights. ( . . more . . )
Goodies from today’s Rational Review News Digest:
“Statist Joe” by Gil Guillory, a response to “Conservative Joe”, a Progressive satire that has been going around and is included as a footnote.
He fills his pot full of good clean drinking water which he bought from Ozarka, because the local government monopoly of water supply bears the comforting designation of “accepted” and also tastes funny.
He thinks back to going to church on Sunday. He is happy to have a community where he can participate with other like-minded people in ceremony. This was made possible by the long struggle to disentangle church and state, and his church enjoys the absence of taxation. He wishes other aspects of his life could be so free.
“Still the City Upon a Hill” by Olaf Gersemann
But the European model provides more fairness, more equal opportunity, right? Wrong. More than anything else, equal opportunity means equal access to education and the labor market. In both cases, the United States might not do as well as one might wish. But continental Europe’s Big Three are certainly doing considerably worse.