All Posts Tagged With: "character"

Wanted: A Healthy Dose of Humility

An awful lot of people in this world are really puffed up about themselves. One of the character traits I wish were much more widely practiced these days is good old-fashioned humility. T. S. Eliot said, “Humility is the most difficult of all virtues to achieve; nothing dies harder than the desire to think well [...]

30Nov2011 | Lawrence W. Reed | 5 comments | Continued

Dusting Off a Man and His Classic

In 1870 the sultan of Turkey gave a book by a Scotsman to his entire entourage of top-ranking officials. The Khedive of Egypt had the same work inscribed and painted on the wall of the Royal harem. Two years later the Meiji dynasty ordered the book to be issued throughout Tokyo’s school system. Eventually every prefecture [...]

21Sep2011 | Lawrence W. Reed | 1 comment | Continued

Reed Op-ed in The Christian Science Monitor

FEE President Lawrence W. Reed’s op-ed “The Deficit Americans Should Think about Most: Personal Character” is online at the The Christian Science Monitor. Here’s a teaser: [T]he deficit that matters most is not denominated in dollars at all. Its currency is of the heart and mind. It’s a manifestation of the values with which we [...]

3Feb2011 | Sheldon Richman | 1 comment | Continued

Character and the Healthcare Crisis

A friend of FEE, Dr. Robert Berry, gave this speech last March.  It deals with the ‘healthcare crisis’ in America today.  The author ultimately attributes it to a crisis of character. I commend this speech to the attention of our readers. It may provoke thought and controversy, but it offers many essential truths and valuable, [...]

31Dec2008 | Lawrence W. Reed | 0 comments | Continued

Character Crisis Origin in Government Schools

Seven faculty and staff at Spirit Creek Middle School in Augusta, GA have recently been implicated in a sex scandal that was being carried out on school premises during school hours. With principals, teachers, and coaches like these, is it any wonder that so many students are becoming adults with corrupt moral compasses? This is [...]

11Dec2008 | Mason Drake | 0 comments | Continued

No Credit Due

The pundits are bewildered over the public’s contradictory response to President Clinton during his recent troubles. Most Americans have a low opinion of his character. Yet at least 60 percent of those polled think he’s doing a terrific job and should not resign. How can this be? Assuming the polling results are accurate, it may [...]

1Dec1998 | Sheldon Richman | 0 comments | Continued

Character and Government Policy

Dale Walsh, who resides in Atlanta, is a fomer public school teacher. While growing up, I assumed that all people valued freedom and therefore did not want intrusive government. Throughout my early schooling I was taught to admire our country’s Founding Fathers, who threw off British tyranny to unleash the most free society the world [...]

1Jul1998 | Dale E. Walsh | 0 comments | Continued

Russell Kirk’s Economics of the Permanent Things

John Attarian is a freelance writer in Ann Arbor, Michigan. While Russell Kirk (1918-1994) is properly recognized for his role in reviving American conservative thought, his ruminations on economics have received little attention. Yet he gave economics due consideration, and was a sturdy friend of economic freedom and a foe of statism. Moreover, because he [...]

1Apr1996 | John Attarian | 0 comments | Continued

Freedom and Happiness

“[F]reedom is undoubtedly the indispensable condition, without which even the pursuits most congenial to individual human nature can never succeed in producing such salutary influences. Whatever does not spring from a man’s free choice, or is only the result of instruction and guidance, does not enter his very being, but still remains alien to his [...]

1Jan1996 | Bryan Caplan | 0 comments | Continued

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