All Posts Tagged With: "conservatives"
Leaking Left and Right
When what you’re seeking through politics is simply “more,” there’s no principled way to say when enough is enough.
15Nov2011 | Sandy Ikeda | 11 comments | ContinuedThe Ruling Class: How They Corrupted America and What We Can Do About It
Class is a libertarian issue. Classical liberals Charles Comte and Charles Dunoyer pioneered class analysis before Karl Marx, and he gave them credit for doing so. Class was a central feature of the work of such libertarian stalwarts as Franz Oppenheimer, Albert Jay Nock, and Frank Chodorov, former editor of The Freeman. Class theory formed the [...]
24Aug2011 | Gary Chartier | 5 comments | ContinuedStop the Bad Guys
It’s not too much of a simplification to say that modern American conservatives believe the national government to be ignorant, bumbling, and corrupt when it meddles in the U.S. economy, but sagacious, sure-footed, and righteous when it meddles in foreign-government affairs. Nor are the boundaries of acceptable simplification breached by saying that modern American “liberals” [...]
25May2011 | Donald J. Boudreaux | 19 comments | ContinuedLiberty and Tyranny: A Conservative Manifesto
The election of Barack Obama in 2008 led to a gusher of books in 2009 by writers opposed to the new President’s philosophy and agenda. If you judge by sales figures, one of the most successful of those books was Liberty and Tyranny by Mark Levin, president of Landmark Legal Foundation and a nationally syndicated [...]
20Apr2010 | George C. Leef | 3 comments | ContinuedStill Neither Left Nor Right
We live in a time when virtually all political parties and candidates stand for the same fundamental ideological idea: state interventionism and compulsory redistribution.This also applies to the mainstream media. Even many who say they adhere to a pro-market view of things in fact turn out to be only more moderate advocates of government regulations and welfare-state programs.
1Jan2006 | Richard M. Ebeling | 0 comments | ContinuedCapitalism Is a Government Project?
As readers of Ideas on Liberty all know, politics cannot always be analyzed in simple left-right terms. But professional pundits like to choose up sides, with the “liberal” commentators traditionally being critical of capitalism and the “conservative” commentators supporting it. Lately, though, there’s been a disturbing amount of anti-free-market opining from the conservative team. Some [...]
1Jun2002 | Aeon J. Skoble | 0 comments | ContinuedWho Is a Liberal?
Liberals have it tough. I mean the real liberals. Not the modern watered-down socialists who call themselves liberals, but real, honest classical liberals. There is so much confusion over the term “liberal,” and real ones have allowed fake ones to get away with this subtle destruction of the language. Recently I was reading two different [...]
1May2002 | James Peron | 2 comments | ContinuedNeither Left nor Right
The problem with the pendulum approach is that Adam Smith is characterized as “extreme” as Karl Marx. By implication, neither economist is sensible.
1Jul2000 | Mark Skousen | 0 comments | ContinuedFreedom and Virtue: The Conservative/Libertarian Debate
Libertarians and conservatives seem to want to get along; how else explain this book’s existence? It was published by the Intercollegiate Studies Institute, a now-conservative organization founded by libertarian journalist Frank Chodorov as the Intercollegiate Society of Individualists. What happened when Chodorov passed control of his organization to more conservative characters is emblematic of the [...]
1Dec1999 | Brian Doherty | 0 comments | ContinuedIs Anyone Still for Limited Government?
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. The collapse of the supposed Republican Revolution has demonstrated the truth of George Wallace’s taunt three long decades ago: there ain’t a [...]
1Sep1998 | Doug Bandow | 2 comments | ContinuedJudges versus Majorities versus Peaceful People
By the time Ronald Reagan was first elected President, conservatives had grown intensely concerned about “judicial activism.” After nearly thirty years of the likes of Earl Warren and William Brennan attempting from the bench to re-engineer society in a leftist image, conservatives were understandably angry. A premier goal for many conservatives became filling the federal [...]
1Mar1998 | Donald J. Boudreaux | 0 comments | ContinuedIn Defense of Freedom and Related Essays
Dr. Dennis is Senior Program Officer at Liberty Fund, Inc., in Indianapolis. In 1962, Frank S. Meyer, then Senior Editor at National Review, published his small, but controversial tract, In Defense of Freedom: A Conservative Credo (Henry Regnery). Here Meyer argued that what American conservatives had to conserve was largely an Anglo-American tradition of liberty. [...]
1May1996 | William C. Dennis | 0 comments | Continued-
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