All Posts Tagged With: "arrogance"

Progressive Intolerance

Television pundits increasingly express an attitude that is at once arrogant and ignorant: The people who oppose Keynesian economics—specifically an increase in government deficit spending to create jobs and jumpstart the economy—are the same kind of people who also believe that the earth is only several thousand years old (rather than 4.5 billion), that evolution [...]

26Oct2011 | Sheldon Richman | 7 comments | Continued

Liberty and the Power of Ideas

A belief that I stress again and again is that we are at war—not a physical, shooting war, but nonetheless a war that is fully capable of becoming just as destructive and just as costly. The battle for the preservation and advancement of liberty is a battle not against personalities but against opposing ideas. The [...]

25May2011 | Lawrence W. Reed | 9 comments | Continued

Monsieur Bastiat, Call Your Office

In September I lectured at the Liberty Weekend Dedicated to the Life and Legacy of Frédéric Bastiat, sponsored by the Polish-American Foundation for Economic Research and Education (PAFERE) in Warsaw. Preparing for my visit, I reread Bastiat’s great book The Law. Oh do we need Bastiat today! The Law is the kind of book you [...]

18Nov2009 | Sheldon Richman | 5 comments | Continued

Suburban Nation: The Rise of Sprawl and the Decline of the American Dream by Andres Duany, Elizabeth Plater-Zyberk, and Jeff Speck

North Point Press (Farrar, Straus and Giroux) • 2000 • 290 pages • $30.00 The authors of Suburban Nation are luminaries in the movement called “the New Urbanism.” Their goal is to stop what they view as the misshapen sprawl around cities, which they consider alienating, destructive of community, and wasteful of land. Suburban Nation [...]

1Jun2001 | Jane S. Shaw | 1 comment | Continued

Markets, Politics, and Civility

“The teachable—those who aspire to an ever greater understanding—are those with an awareness of how little they know.” —Leonard E. Read In March, ABC Television presented “You Can’t Say That!”—another illuminating program by John Stossel. In it, he documented the distressing intolerance that many Americans have for the opinions of others, and a corresponding acceptance [...]

1Jul2000 | Donald J. Boudreaux | 1 comment | Continued

Humble Hubris

Al Gore, presidential aspirant and environmental sage, once spoke admiringly of an Indian tribe whose leaders, he said, planned seven generations ahead. His message was clear: if only we shallow, conceited bourgeois Americans had the concern and humility to think like that. I don’t believe there was such a tribe. Anyone who does can’t tell [...]

1Mar2000 | Sheldon Richman | 0 comments | Continued

Economics: A Branch of Moral Philosophy

Leonard E. Read established FEE in 1946 and served as its president until his death in 1983. This article, reprinted from the January 1972 issue of The Freeman, is the sixth in a monthly series commemorating the 100th anniversary of Mr. Read’s birth. The author of The Wealth of Nations (1776) is frequently classed as [...]

1Jun1998 | Leonard E. Read | 1 comment | Continued

Judges versus Majorities versus Peaceful People

By the time Ronald Reagan was first elected President, conservatives had grown intensely concerned about “judicial activism.” After nearly thirty years of the likes of Earl Warren and William Brennan attempting from the bench to re-engineer society in a leftist image, conservatives were understandably angry. A premier goal for many conservatives became filling the federal [...]

1Mar1998 | Donald J. Boudreaux | 0 comments | Continued

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