Tag: Great

America’s Great Heritage: Civil Society

“Taxation,” said Oliver Wendell Holmes, “is the price we pay for civilization.” But a much better case can be made that taxation is the price we pay for the lack of civilization. If people took better care of themselves, their families, and…

The Great Handoff – The Stream

There’s a powerful parable I heard years ago. It’s the story of a man in Japan who walked to work ever day. Each day, he passed by a field where a farmer was clearing rocks from the field. The farmer picked, he dug, and then he carried the rocks…

Good lessons from great financial crises

UPI / AlamySubscriber announcement: When Reaction scaled back to just this newsletter hosting my writing, I said I would take a few months to figure it out. Was the pricing right for my newsletter which is usually about 2-3000 words long each…