All Posts Tagged With: "border security"

Safe Toasters and Toxic Financial Assets

If we want our financial system to be as reliable as our toasters, we need more market competition and less of the heavy hand of the State.

27Oct2011 | Steven Horwitz | 7 comments | Continued

Secure in Freedom

Language is indispensable to civilization. But because we rely on language so heavily—because it is our chief means of communicating with each other as well as a tool for forming and storing our thoughts—if used carelessly it can misshape our thoughts. Careless language (or, even worse, verbal legerdemain) often turns words or phrases with positive [...]

25Aug2010 | Donald J. Boudreaux | 14 comments | Continued

Mr. Obama, Tear Down This Wall!

All of us should worry, if not panic, when we remember that the walls keeping others out also keep us in.

21May2009 | Becky Akers | 69 comments | Continued

The Nation Is Not a House

Let’s reflect on the rhetoric used by those who oppose greater freedom for people to move back and forth across political borders. Opponents of the freedom to move frequently analogize a nation to a house. “You lock your house, don’t you?” these anti-immigrationists ask—implying that what makes sense for a home makes equally good sense [...]

1Sep2007 | Donald J. Boudreaux | 0 comments | Continued

Borders and Liberty

Borders play a critical role in our lives. Some of the borders that matter to us are ones we establish ourselves: this is my house and property; that is your house and property. By choosing what is mine and using the legal system to mark it off from what is yours, I create a border. [...]

1Jul2004 | Andrew P. Morriss | 11 comments | Continued
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