All Posts Tagged With: "charity"

Reclassifying a Classic

Daniel Oliver is a research associate at the Washington, D.C.-based Capital Research Center (http://www.capitalresearch.org) and a freelance writer. A version of this article originally appeared in the December 26, 1997, Wall Street Journal. For a century and a half, A Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens (1812-1870) has been read and reread, told and retold, performed [...]

1Dec1999 | | 24 comments | Continued

A Better Brand of Parent

Marshall Fritz is the founder of the Separation of School & State Alliance in Fresno, California (www.sepschool.org). After World War II, aborigines in New Guinea scraped clearings in the brush in hopes that planes would land and bring “cargo.” They’d seen U.S. forces do similar scrapings, and soon thereafter, great silver birds landed and disgorged [...]

1Sep1999 | | 3 comments | Continued

Voluntarism Should Be Voluntary

Doug Bandow, a nationally syndicated columnist, is a senior fellow at the Cato Institute and the author and editor of several books, including Tripwire: Korea and U.S. Foreign Policy in a Changed World. Service is good, so government-provided service must be better. That appears to be the motto of the Clinton administration. And the GOP [...]

1Aug1999 | | 0 comments | Continued

Why the War on Poverty Failed

Well, it’s now official: the war on poverty was a costly, tragic mistake. Ordinary people have suspected that for decades, of course, but we had to wait for the New York Times to decide this news was fit to print—which it finally did on February 9, 1998. In a front-page story on poverty in rural [...]

1Jan1999 | | 11 comments | Continued

Service Without a Smile

Stop the presses! Here’s a news flash that will send shock waves through the country: school-based compulsory community service doesn’t engender the spirit of giving. Imagine that! When students are forced to be compassionate volunteers, they rebel and find ways to get around the system. Who’d have believed it? In a recent article in the [...]

1Nov1998 | | 2 comments | Continued

Paycheck Protection in California: What Went Wrong?

Proposition 226, which was on the primary ballot in California last June, would have required unions to get annual written permission from workers before spending their dues and agency fees on politics. The proposition lost 53 to 47 percent. In January, just after the initiative qualified for the ballot, polls indicated that over 70 percent [...]

1Nov1998 | | 0 comments | Continued

"In Defense of Misers"

To the Editor: Since I work for an organization that studies philanthropy, I find Candace Allen and Dwight R. Lee’s article (“In Defense of Markets and Misers,” April 1998) interesting. I agree with their argument that Mr. M (the miser) provides a total benefit of $10 billion to others by hoarding his money, thus reducing [...]

1Jun1998 | | 0 comments | Continued

On Giving Back

To celebrate the centennial of its founding, the big accounting firm KPMG Peat Marwick made September 22, 1997, “KPMG World of Spirit Day.” The firm’s 130 offices were closed that day so that, as the letter announcing this event stated, “over 20,000 KPMG partners and employees will spend the day serving our local communities.” The [...]

1Mar1998 | | 1 comment | Continued

The Pervasive Duty to Rescue

Mr. Kochan is an Adjunct Scholar with The Mackinac Center for Public Policy, a research and educational organization headquartered in Midland, Michigan. As individuals, Americans may choose to act as Good Samaritans and come to the aid of those in need, but are not legally obligated to do so. Traditionally under American law, no general [...]

1Jun1997 | | 0 comments | Continued

Private Means, Public Ends: Voluntarism vs. Coercion

Do you have friends who are socialists? Show them Robert Zimmerman’s chapter, “New York’s War Against the Vans” in Private Means, Public Ends. Zimmerman shows private enterprise efficiently providing much-needed transportation, while the city transit police block passenger pickup, issue summonses, and otherwise harass van operators and passengers. If government is needed to provide such [...]

1Nov1996 | | 0 comments | Continued

In Service of a Boondoggle

Doug Bandow is a senior fellow at the Cato Institute and a nationally syndicated columnist. He is the author and editor of several books, including The Politics of Envy: Statism as Theology (Transaction). Service has a long and venerable history in America. And so it continues today. Three-quarters of American households give to charity. An [...]

1Sep1996 | | 0 comments | Continued

The Rise of Government and the Decline of Morality

Government and Morality The growth of government has politicized life and weakened the nation’s moral fabric. Government intervention—in the economy, in the community, and in society—has increased the payoff from political action and reduced the scope of private action. People have become more dependent on the State and have sacrificed freedom for a false sense [...]

1Mar1996 | | 0 comments | Continued

Legalized Immorality

The late Clarence Manion was Dean of the College of Law, Notre Dame University. “Legalized Immorality,” an excerpt from his 1950 book, The Key to Peace, appeared in Essays on Liberty, Volume I (FEE, 1952). It must be remembered that 96 percent of the peace, order, and welfare existing in human society is always produced [...]

1Mar1996 | | 3 comments | Continued

A Moral Basis for Liberty

With the Soviet bloc’s collapse and the evidence of socialism’s appalling failures and human cost, capitalism seems triumphant. Francis Fukuyama even proclaimed the “end of history”: ideological conflicts are over; only managerial and technical controversies remain. For Father Robert Sirico, founder and president of the Acton Institute, this facile optimism is untenable. Pragmatic defenses of [...]

1Sep1995 | | 0 comments | Continued

Liberalism, Conservatism, and Catholicism: An Evaluation of Contemporary American Political Ideologies in Light of Catholic Social Teaching

With politics increasingly polarized and penetrating more and more facets of life, it becomes important for American Catholics to know which doctrines and parties they can support while remaining faithful to Church teaching. Professor Stephen Krason of Franciscan University of Steubenville has produced an excellent guide for the perplexed. After defining liberalism and conservatism and [...]

1Jun1995 | | 0 comments | Continued

The Real Reason Welfare Should End

Professor Levin teaches in the Department of Philosophy at City College and The Graduate Center of The City University, New York, New York. Welfare should end, but not for the usual reasons. The Right has long held, and the Left is coming reluctantly to agree, that welfare creates a culture of dependency, sapping the initiative [...]

1Feb1995 | | 20 comments | Continued

Serving Others

Mr. Fairless is Chairman of the Executive Advisory Committee, United States Steel Corporation. Ours would indeed be a sorry world if self-interest did not activate individuals to serve one another. As far as I know, there are only two basic motivations that cause you and me and other people to serve our neighbors voluntarily and [...]

1Jul1956 | | 0 comments | Continued
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