All Posts Tagged With: "censorship"
How Intellectual Property Hampers the Free Market
Advocates of free-market capitalism commonly believe in the legitimacy of intellectual property (IP) because IP rights are thought to be important to a system of private property. But are they? There are good reasons to think that IP is not actually property—that it is actually antithetical to a private-property, free-market order. By intellectual property, I [...]
25May2011 | N. Stephan Kinsella | 56 comments | ContinuedThe Language Police: How Pressure Groups Restrict What Students Learn
In the endless debates over political correctness, champions of PC like to argue that their foes exaggerate the harm it causes. If you study the issue closely, you’ll find that political correctness is not as bad as you think it is—it’s much worse. Diane Ravitch found out this unwholesome truth in 1998. A prominent education [...]
7Jul2010 | Martin Morse Wooster | 1 comment | ContinuedBook Reviews – June 2004
Principles of Politics Applicable to All Governments by Benjamin Constant Liberty Fund • 2003 • 558 pages • $22 hardcover; $12 paperback Reviewed by Richard M. Ebeling Nowhere does one find such clear and lucid expositions and defenses of human liberty as those found among the French classical liberals of the nineteenth century, a group [...]
1Jun2004 | FEE Admin | 6 comments | ContinuedRemembering Prague Spring
When the Eastern European empire of the Soviet Union melted away in 1989, and the Soviet Union itself dissolved two years later, wise observers noted that these developments hadn’t materialized overnight on their own. They were the result of critically important events that had punctuated seven decades of Soviet communism. The 35th anniversary of one [...]
1May2003 | Lawrence W. Reed | 1 comment | ContinuedHow War Amplified Federal Power in the Twentieth Century
This article is reprinted from the July 1999 issue of The Freeman: Ideas on Liberty. After surveying the Western world in the past six centuries, Bruce Porter concluded: “a government at war is a juggernaut of centralization determined to crush any internal opposition that impedes the mobilization of militarily vital resources. This centralizing tendency of [...]
1Dec2001 | Robert Higgs | 0 comments | ContinuedThe War Against Drug-Speech
The “thought police” are back, and with a vengeance. Pending congressional legislation casts politicians and law enforcement as modern-day book burners. Legislators have their pick of three separate bills that would impose a ten-year felony sentence on anyone who communicates, by any means, “information pertaining to the . . . manufacture of a controlled substance,” [...]
1Jun2000 | Paul Armentano | 1 comment | ContinuedThe Day We Read No More
Angus Crane is a lawyer in Virginia. I recently appeared before the Montgomery County District Court, Traffic Division, in Rockville, Maryland, to challenge a traffic citation. I arrived 30 minutes before the court convened. I must first confess, in the words of Theodore Roosevelt, that “reading with me is a disease.” Thus like TR, I [...]
1Mar2000 | Angus E. Crane | 0 comments | ContinuedThe Internet: Parental Guidance Preferred
Keith Wade is the director of finance and MIS at Cypress Gardens in Florida and an adjunct instructor of business and information technology at Webster University. It is probably helpful—given how venturing into the areas of “obscene” and “inappropriate” can often lead to name-calling and misunderstanding—to make a point very clear immediately. I do not [...]
1Feb2000 | Keith Wade | 0 comments | ContinuedThe Shadow University: The Betrayal of Liberty on America’s Campuses
Many books have discussed political indoctrination on American campuses, but none is as thorough and damning as this one. Alan Kors, a history professor at the University of Pennsylvania, and Harvey Silverglate, a criminal defense attorney and civil liberties litigator, present overwhelming evidence that the loss of liberty on campuses is far greater than most [...]
1Nov1999 | Daniel Shapiro | 2 comments | ContinuedHow War Amplified Federal Power in the Twentieth Century
After surveying the Western world in the past six centuries, Bruce Porter concluded: “a government at war is a juggernaut of centralization determined to crush any internal opposition that impedes the mobilization of militarily vital resources. This centralizing tendency of war has made the rise of the state throughout much of history a disaster for [...]
1Jul1999 | Robert Higgs | 1 comment | ContinuedCensoring Pleas for Help
Ask people if they favor government censorship and the response will be a nearly unanimous no! Yet if you ask the same people if they favor government price controls, the response will be much more mixed. Ask them if the government should control prices to prevent “price gouging” after natural disasters, and the response will [...]
1Jan1999 | Dwight R. Lee | 1 comment | ContinuedDoes the Internet Prove the Need for Government Investment?
Fans of tax-funded investment often cite the Internet as an example of the good that government can do. Sure, they say, the Net now has uncountable millions of components, from Web sites to computer networks large and small. But if it hadn’t been for those first critical investments by the government, we wouldn’t have the [...]
1Nov1998 | Andrew P. Morriss | 0 comments | ContinuedLaw and Disorder in Cyberspace
Solveig Singleton is director of information studies at the Cato Institute. The subtitle of Peter Huber’s Law and Disorder in Cyberspace proudly proclaims the book’s main theme: “Abolish the FCC and Let Common Law Rule the Telecosm.” Huber proposes a free-market revolution for telephone, broadcasting, cable television, satellite, and Internet services, tempered with a few [...]
1Oct1998 | Solveig Singleton | 1 comment | ContinuedFor the Children
Russell Madden teaches at Mt. Mercy College in Cedar Rapids, Iowa. Most parents love their children and seek only the best for them. Indeed, the notion that the next generation should have better and easier lives is best illustrated by the countless immigrant parents who suffer backbreaking labor, long hours, and economic deprivation. That motivation [...]
1Jul1998 | Russell Madden | 0 comments | ContinuedObscenity: 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 | T. Franklin Harris Jr. | 1 comment | Continued-
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