Archive for Antony Flew

Government Failure: E.G. West on Education

This illuminating book was designed to commemorate the achievements and to spread the ideas of the late Edwin G. West. Professor West, who lived from 1922 to 2001, did pioneering work in the economics and history of education, and his studies have been critical in refuting the pretensions of government education. Those who wish to [...]

8Jul2010 | Antony Flew | 0 comments | Continued

The Opium of the Intellectuals

This, the most famous of Aron’s works, was first published in 1955. It is now republished together with the essay “Fanaticism, Prudence and Faith,” which was Aron’s original response to his critics. It thus becomes the fifth volume in Transaction’s series of Aron’s works. In his introduction to this new edition, Professor Harvey Mansfield writes [...]

11Feb2003 | Antony Flew | 0 comments | Continued

Karl Marx: A Life by Francis Wheen

W.W. Norton • 2000 • 431 pages • $27.95 This book is described by the author as “an attempt to rediscover Karl Marx the man . . . a Prussian immigrant who became a middle class English gentleman; an angry agitator who spent most of his adult life in . . . the British Museum [...]

1Jul2001 | Antony Flew | 1 comment | Continued

The Global Education Industry: Lessons from Private Education in Developing Countries

After all the privatizations of the Thatcher years, the British-maintained school system is one of the two largest industries that still remain under state ownership and control. (The other is the National Health Service.) Both are effectively monopolistic and therefore liable to all the notorious faults of monopolies, particularly those run by the government. State [...]

1Sep2000 | Antony Flew | 0 comments | Continued

The Third Way: The Renewal of Social Democracy by Anthony Giddens

The Polity Press • 1999 • 166 pages • $19.95 paperback The importance of this book lies in the fact that its author is often and with good reason described as the guru of British Prime Minister Tony Blair. It tells us much about the thinking of politicians of his kind. The social democratic parties [...]

1Mar2000 | Antony Flew | 0 comments | Continued

The Lost Literature of Socialism

The literature of socialism is lost only in the sense of not having been read for a very long time. George Watson has been re-reading this literature as a professional literary critic, with strong interests in both political affairs and the history of ideas. Many of his findings are astonishing. Perhaps for readers today the [...]

1Sep1999 | Antony Flew | 0 comments | Continued

History of the Voucher Idea

Professor Flew resides in Reading, England. It is often thought—in fact it has even been said by contributors to The Freeman—that education vouchers were first proposed by Milton Friedman in his Capitalism and Freedom (University of Chicago Press, 1962). But this is not true. Milton Friedman may have been the first person to introduce and [...]

1Jun1995 | Antony Flew | 0 comments | Continued

The Artificial Inflation of Natural Rights

Antony Flew is Distinguished Research Fellow of the Social Philosophy and Policy Center, Bowling Green State University. This article is from Vera Lex (Vol. VIII, No. 2 [1988]), published by the Natural Law Society. Like other currencies, the currency of rights has in recent years been subject to inflation. And just as money tends to [...]

1Dec1989 | Antony Flew | 0 comments | Continued

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