All Posts Tagged With: "community"

The Individual and the Community

Last May sociologist Amitai Etzioni participated in a debate hosted by the Cato Institute in which he argued against the classical-liberal theory as being too atomistic, excessively concerned with selfish individualism, and neglectful of the importance of community. He’s been making this point for 20 years, which is strange for two reasons: First, it isn’t [...]

26Oct2011 | Aeon J. Skoble | 1 comment | Continued

Social Cooperation, Part 2

Only individuals value, choose, and act, of course, but in an important sense the resulting social whole is greater than the sum of its individual parts.

26Aug2011 | Sheldon Richman | 19 comments | Continued

Is a Nation Something That Can Be Built?

In the wake of both the collapse of the Soviet empire and the more recent U.S. interventions in Iraq and Afghanistan, we have seen a lively debate on nation-building. Many people who are ordinarily skeptical about the power of the U.S. government as a force for good, either at home or around the world, have [...]

25May2011 | Steven Horwitz | 10 comments | Continued

Richard Cornuelle (1927-2011)

Richard Cornuelle passed away early Tuesday morning. He was one of the true princes of the modern classical liberal movement.

29Apr2011 | Peter J. Boettke | 0 comments | Continued

Why Not Socialism?

In the late 1980s and early 1990s, the Soviet Union collapsed, the Berlin Wall came down, millions were lifted out of oppression, and the Mises/Hayek critique of socialism was (supposedly) vindicated. As the world slogs through the continuing recession, however, dissenting voices grow louder. The late G. A. Cohen, an iconic political philosopher of the [...]

22Dec2010 | Art Carden | 6 comments | Continued

The Individual and Society

Over lunch recently a philosophical friend of mine reflected, “U.S. history is the story of a struggle between the individual and society as a whole.” A few days later another friend, equally philosophical, said something similar: “It always comes down to a conflict between the individual and the community.” I have often heard this. The [...]

1Sep2003 | Arthur E. Foulkes | 0 comments | Continued

Widening Route 6

I really shouldn’t tell you this, but Cape Cod is a very beautiful place. I shouldn’t mention its beaches with their towering sand dunes. I shouldn’t mention the golden eagle I saw soaring over the marsh near the cottage where we stayed on vacation. I shouldn’t mention the charm of the Cape Cod baseball league, where college players try to show major league scouts they can hit with a wooden bat and where the fans get in for free and the dogs and toddlers are unleashed.

1Dec2002 | Russell Roberts | 1 comment | Continued

A Sense of Community Contradicts the Logic of the Market?

On September 8, 2001, distinguished New York Times columnist Anthony Lewis joined the ranks of those who claim both to appreciate the ways in which freedom and competition produce greater prosperity and to think that we cannot have civilized communities coexisting with that freedom. These contradictory claims were brought to the fore in his mind [...]

1Jan2002 | Aeon J. Skoble | 0 comments | Continued

Individual and Society: Irreconcilable Enemies?

Contributing editor Tibor Machan is a professor at the Argyros School of Business and Economics at Chapman University. Do individual rights clash with the interests and “rights” of communities? Some say that they do, at least sometimes. And some think they clash quite often. But an individual “right” that can be abrogated at will whenever [...]

1Oct2001 | Tibor R. Machan | 1 comment | 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

To Serve and Protect: Privatization and Community in Criminal Justice

Over the last three decades, the share of GDP consumed by the public sector on crime control has tripled and now exceeds $100 billion annually, or about $1,000 per household. Crime rates have declined in the 1990s, suggesting some benefit from the expenditure, yet crime stubbornly remains three times higher than 30 years ago, according [...]

1Oct1999 | Morgan O. Reynolds | 0 comments | Continued

The Virtue of Civility: Selected Essays on Liberalism, Tradition, and Civil Society

Father Robert A. Sirico is president of the Acton Institute for the Study of Religion and Liberty in Grand Rapids, Michigan. After decades of interest groups aggressively asserting their “rights,” often gained only at the expense of others, our political culture is starting to take notice of the notion of “civility.” The left identifies the [...]

1Aug1998 | Robert A. Sirico CSP | 1 comment | Continued

Individualism and Freedom: Vital Pillars of True Communities

Edward Younkins is professor of accountancy and business administration at Wheeling Jesuit University, Wheeling, West Virginia. Individualism is the view that each person has moral significance and certain rights that are either of divine origin or inherent in human nature. Each individual exists, perceives, experiences, thinks, and acts in and through his own body and [...]

1Jan1998 | Edward W. Younkins | 0 comments | Continued

The Lost City: Discovering the Forgotten Virtues of Community in the Chicago of the 1950s

Dr. Walters is professor of economics in the Sellinger School of Business and Management at Loyola College in Maryland. Can individuals have too much freedom? Can markets serve up too many choices for consumers? Do we need more “authority” in the America of the ’90s? In The Lost City, Alan Ehrenhalt answers these questions affirmatively; [...]

1Jul1996 | Stephen J. K. Walters | 0 comments | Continued

In Defense Of The Individual

The author, for nine years a parish minister, formerly directed the conference program for Spiritual Mobilization, and in that capacity held a number of two-day seminars for clergymen and laymen designed to promote a better understanding of the libertarian philosophy. Similar questions recurred at many of these conferences, and experience suggested ways of clearing up [...]

1Nov1955 | Edmund A. Opitz | 0 comments | Continued

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