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The First Leftist
This article appeared in FEE’s Essays on Liberty, volume 1 (1952). It was originally published separately as a pamphlet in 1951. The first Leftist would not be popular in America today. That is true because the original Leftists wanted to abolish government controls over industry, trade, and the professions. They wanted wages, prices, and profits [...]
4Feb2011 | Dean Russell | 3 comments | ContinuedConscience on the Battlefield
PROLOGUE (1981) In 1951, during the Korean War, I wrote a pamphlet entitled Conscience on the Battlefield. War “as a means to peace among nations” was then, and remains, a world-wide fallacy. Today, small wars go on in various parts of the globe, and there is the possibility that a big one is in the [...]
14Jul2010 | Leonard E. Read | 5 comments | ContinuedThe Freedom to Move
The freedom of the individual to move toward greener pastures, wherever they may seem to be, has been a vital part of the freedom of commerce—the freedom of choice that has constituted the truly distinctive characteristic of “the American way.” In view of our long experience of near-perfect freedom to move about as each might [...]
1Nov2006 | Oscar W. Cooley | 0 comments | ContinuedGovernment in Business
In the midst of nationwide prosperity, some economic and social problems keep nagging at the public. All over the country, they take the same form. What are they? Traffic congestion, inadequate roads, overcrowded schools, juvenile delinquency, water shortages.
1Oct2006 | Murray N. Rothbard | 0 comments | ContinuedMost Important
The most important people are the farmers, so it is said, for they feed the nation. Laborers, however, are just about as important because they do the real work. On the other hand, were it not for the doctors and for medical science, our life expectancy would be shorter, with less opportunity to enjoy all [...]
1Aug2006 | Victor Jacobson | 1 comment | ContinuedThe Jewel of Consistency
The acid test is that a man live by the principles he professes to believe.
1Jun2006 | Fred DeArmond | 0 comments | ContinuedThe Early History of FEE
Henry Hazlitt had a long and distinguished career as economist, journalist, author, editor, and literary critic. This article, first published in the March 1984 issue of The Freeman, is excerpted from his remarks at the Leonard E. Read Memorial Conference on Freedom, November 1983. I’ve been invited to share some recollections about the early days [...]
1May2006 | Henry Hazlitt | 1 comment | ContinuedFreedom and Majority Rule
The publisher of the London Times came to this country a few years after World War I. A banquet in his honor was held in New York City, and at the appropriate time Lord Northcliffe rose to his feet to propose a toast. Prohibition was in effect, you will recall, and the beverage customarily drunk [...]
1Jun2005 | Edmund A. Opitz | 0 comments | Continued-
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