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Socialized Medicine: One Size Fits None
Karen Selick is an attorney in Ontario and a columnist for Canadian Lawyer. Copyright © 1999 by Karen Selick. Ontario, Canada—Andrew Sawatzky, an elderly Manitoba man whose wife went to court to fight the “Do Not Resuscitate” order placed on his hospital chart, is probably part of a fairly small minority. His wife says he [...]
1Aug1999 | Karen Selick | 0 comments | ContinuedMarkets Need a Hidden Fist?
When I want to jump-start my Sunday by kicking up my blood pressure a few points, I head down the driveway for the Sunday New York Times. Some weeks it is the front page that does the trick, other weeks the op-ed page. Few Sundays have given me a more eye-popping, artery-clearing boost, however, than [...]
1Aug1999 | Andrew P. Morriss | 0 comments | ContinuedWhy Honorable People Avoid Politics
Supporters of campaign-finance “reform,” meaning, supporters of greater government financing and central planning of electoral campaigns—routinely lament the fact that politicos must raise large sums of money to run for office. This requirement not only risks making elected officials indebted to the interest groups that fund their campaigns, but it also is said to dissuade [...]
1Oct1998 | Donald J. Boudreaux | 6 comments | ContinuedLeonard E. Read, Crusader
If you had known Leonard E. Read in the 1930s, you would probably not have picked him as a future crusader for the freedom philosophy. Charismatic, energetic, debonair, he was a businessman, an organization man, a Chamber of Commerce man. In 1932, in the depth of the Depression, he became manager of the Western Division [...]
1Sep1998 | Bettina Bien Greaves | 2 comments | ContinuedCast a Giant Ballot
Dr. Thies is the Durell Professor of Money, Banking, and Finance at Shenandoah University and chairman of the Republican Liberty Caucus. The late Roger MacBride is perhaps best remembered as the person who brought Little House on the Prairie to television. For some readers of this magazine, he was the person who, through the casting [...]
1Oct1997 | Clifford F. Thies | 0 comments | ContinuedGovernment: An Ideal Concept: Leonard Read’s Formula for Freedom
Mr. Heller is an auctioneer in southern New Jersey. The reviewer begs the reader’s indulgence for combining a book review with an appreciation of the author. Yes, Leonard Read is my guide and inspiration, and I was thrilled to learn of the republication of Government: An Ideal Concept (FEE, 1997, $12.95 paperback). This book is [...]
1Aug1997 | Esler G. Heller | 0 comments | ContinuedBook Review: What It Means to Be a Libertarian: A Personal Interpretation by Charles Murray
Broadway Books • 1997 • 192 pages • $20.00 Mr. Bandow, a senior fellow at the Cato Institute, is a monthly columnist for The Freeman. Charles Murray has long been one of America’s most important social scientists. His book Losing Ground touched off a debate over welfare policy by challenging widely held misconceptions of government [...]
1Jun1997 | Doug Bandow | 0 comments | ContinuedReviving a Civil Society
“Taxes,” said Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr., “are what we pay for civilized society.” But as my fellow Freeman columnist Mark Skousen explained in his remarkable monograph “Persuasion vs. Force,” a much better case can be made that taxation is actually the price we pay for the lack of civilization. If people took better care of [...]
1Sep1996 | Lawrence W. Reed | 0 comments | ContinuedRevolution at the Roots: Making Our Government Smaller, Better, and Closer to Home
For the general reader, Revolution at the Roots provides a comprehensive survey of government-shrinking attempts around the nation. Prodigiously researched, it takes us to every corner of the land: welfare reform in Wisconsin, Michigan, and New Jersey; budget control in New York and Philadelphia; tax and spending limits in Arizona and Colorado; community policing in [...]
1Apr1996 | James L. Payne | 0 comments | ContinuedThe 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 | Michael Levin | 20 comments | ContinuedWhite Magic
Mr. Read is President o[ the Foundation for Economic Education. Each person tends to satisfy his desires along the lines of least resistance. Those who really believe outright thievery or spoliation (political plunder) to be immoral are thereby bound to reject such so-called easy means to their ends. Why? They recognize that any injustice done [...]
1Feb1956 | Leonard E. Read | 0 comments | Continued-
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