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Perspective: Seize the High Ground

If liberty is to prevail in its intellectual struggle with socialism, its friends must seize the high ground of morality. The free market, private property, minimal government approach to society is right morally. All the varieties of socialism, interventionism, forced welfare, redistribution, and so on—any interferences with the peaceful pursuit of happiness—are wrong. Over and [...]

1Aug1986 | | 0 comments | Continued

Perspective: Essay Contest Winners

FEE has long been dedicated to helping people improve their understanding of the freedom philosophy, and their ability to express it in the modern idiom. In this issue of The Freeman, we are proud to present the first fruits of a new endeavor to this end—the first-place essays from the 1985-86 FEE student essay contest, [...]

1Jun1986 | | 1 comment | Continued

Perspective: The Workfare Fallacy

“If able-bodied people are to be supported at public expense, then they should be made to work in exchange for support.” So goes the defense of workfare. This plausible statement is a trap for the unwary, another lure along the twisted path at the end of which lies authoritarianism, welfare-state style. It implies that government, [...]

1Feb1986 | | 0 comments | Continued

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