Archive for T. Franklin Harris Jr.

Obscenity: The Case for a Free Market in Free Speech

Mr. Harris, tfharris@HiWAAY.net, is the news librarian for a major daily newspaper in Alabama. Despite the unambiguous language of the First Amendment, speech—of all kinds—has been regulated by government—at all levels—throughout the history of the United States. The first federal attempt to circumvent the First Amendment’s prohibition of laws “abridging the freedom of speech, or [...]

1Sep1996 | | 1 comment | Continued

Book Review: Reinventing Government: How the Entrepreneurial Spirit is Transforming the Public Sector from Schoolhouse to Statehouse, City Hall to the Pentagon by David Osborne and Ted Gaebler

Addison-Wesley Publishing Company, Inc., Reading, MA 01867, 1992 • 405 pages • $22.95 The search for a “third way” somewhere between socialism and capitalism is to the modern era what the search for the philosopher’s stone was to the Dark Ages. Although the implosion of the Soviet Union has put a damper on calls for [...]

1May1993 | | 1 comment | Continued

We, the People, and Our Deficit

Mr. Harris is a student at Auburn University in Alabama. Criticizing the government’s continuing failure to deal with the mounting federal budget deficit, New Hampshire Senator Warren Rudman announced in March that he would not seek re-election. The Senator held nearly everyone responsible for the budget grid-lock: the Congress, the President, and—surprisingly—even the American people. [...]

1Nov1992 | | 0 comments | Continued

Rustic, U.S.A.

Mr. Harris is studying political science at Auburn University. There is a lot of talk nowadays about democracy. Everywhere it seems that democracy and freedom are regarded as one and the same. Even further, there are the constant rantings about “economic democracy.” It is very disconcerting to classical liberals like myself to see democracy equated [...]

1Feb1992 | | 1 comment | Continued

Corporate Social Responsibility: A Dialogue

Mr. Harris is studying political science at Auburn University. Imagine if you will that ancient Greece’s two greatest philosophers, Plato and Aristotle, are alive today and debating philosophical subjects much as they did in Plato’s Academy. The subject at hand is the moral responsibility of corporations to the whole of society. Plato: The debate over [...]

1Sep1991 | | 1 comment | Continued

Childrens Television Shouldnt Be Regulated

Mr. Harris is studying political science at Auburn University. There is a familiar cry in Washington these days: “Save the children!” No, it isn’t another call for foreign aid to save the starving children of Ethiopia. This time the children in danger are Americans, and the danger isn’t starvation, but the state of children’s television. [...]

1Jan1991 | | 0 comments | Continued

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