Dr. Richard McKenzie, retired economist from the University of California-Irvine, discusses the Crossnore School, a modern-day N.C. orphanage and subject of his book Miracle Mountain. McKenzie offered these comments during a July 8, 2013, speech for the John Locke Foundation’s Shaftesbury Society. To watch full-length presentations of JLF events, click here.
Mass shootings and valuing human life
The tragic death of five shooting victims in Raleigh should give us an extended pause. First, it should remind us of the immense value of life. For the ideologues, politics is and will remain the sole focus of the shooting. In fact, for many, frantic calls for gun control inevitably become the only solution. Yet,...