All Posts Tagged With: "freedom philosophy"
Liberty and the Power of Ideas
A belief that I stress again and again is that we are at war—not a physical, shooting war, but nonetheless a war that is fully capable of becoming just as destructive and just as costly. The battle for the preservation and advancement of liberty is a battle not against personalities but against opposing ideas. The [...]
25May2011 | Lawrence W. Reed | 9 comments | ContinuedLawrence Reed Profiled by Young Americans for Liberty
The Young Americans for Liberty website features a profile of FEE President Lawrence W. Reed, calling him “the liberty movement’s ambassador to the rest of the world.” Here’s a teaser: Reed is known all over the world for his advocacy of freedom. His stories are laced with optimism and passion, his responses to questions are [...]
25Feb2011 | Tsvetelin M. Tsonevski | 1 comment | ContinuedLibertarianism = Anti-racism
Rand Paul’s comments regarding the federal ban on racial discrimination in public accommodations have brought the libertarian position on civil rights to public attention.
28May2010 | Sheldon Richman | 29 comments | ContinuedThe Politics of Liberty in England and Revolutionary America
Explaining and, worse, legitimizing the state occupied sixteenth- and seventeenth-century philosophers in England and Europe. Even as the beast they dissected exiled or imprisoned them and ravaged their countries with civil war, they worried about the intricacies of absolute monarchy. How exactly did God ordain it, and do men owe obligations beyond abject submission to [...]
18May2010 | Becky Akers | 0 comments | ContinuedIs the Name “Capitalism” Worth Keeping? Part 2
The deeper problem with the terms “capitalism” and “socialism” is that they don’t indicate the institutional arrangements under the systems would operate
7Jan2010 | Steven Horwitz | 21 comments | ContinuedThe Low Road and the High Ground
[W]hen things get nasty … we shouldn’t just shrug our shoulders and say things never change. Such nastiness can and should be avoided, and those of us in the freedom movement can take the lead by setting a better example.
17Dec2009 | Steven Horwitz | 7 comments | ContinuedThe Sound of Freedom
When I have the chance, I often pose this question to people who have become advocates for liberty: “What was it that first turned you on to these ideas?” It’s an important question that always produces revealing answers and sometimes some fascinating stories. Liberty, keep in mind, is not automatic or guaranteed. Few people who [...]
18Nov2009 | Lawrence W. Reed | 3 comments | ContinuedFEE at 60: Self-Improvement and First Principles
March 7 marks the 60th anniversary of the establishment of the Foundation for Economic Education (FEE) by the late Leonard
E. Read, with the assistance of a handful of businessmen, economists, and journalists who were all dedicated to the ideas of individual liberty and the free market. From its beginning FEE has been more than what nowadays is called a policy-oriented think tank. Its work is based on the understanding that right thinking on policy issues is impossible unless people have a clear appreciation of the principles of freedom, private property, free enterprise, the rule of law, and constitutionally limited government.
Fifty Years Later
I saw my first copy of The Freeman sometime in 1967, most likely while I was still a senior in high school in Philadelphia. In those days, the magazine was almost pocket-size. A classmate showed me the issue and suggested I contact the Foundation for Economic Education for more. I had never heard that name [...]
1Jan2006 | Sheldon Richman | 0 comments | ContinuedThe Freeman: Ideas on Liberty
Henry Hazlitt (18941993), on the hundredth anniversary of his birth, most deservedly was designated journalist of the century. He also was the last survivor of the founding trustees of the Foundation for Economic Education.
1Jan2006 | Paul L. Poirot | 1 comment | ContinuedThe Function of The Freeman
On the positive side, of course, our function is to expound and apply our announced principles of traditional liberalism, voluntary cooperation, and individual freedom. On the negative side, it is to expose the errors of coercionism and collectivism of all degrees—of statism,“planning,” controlism, socialism, fascism, and communism. We seek, in other words, not only to [...]
1Jan2006 | Henry Hazlitt | 0 comments | ContinuedReflections on The Freeman
“The Freeman has had a definitive influence in Guatemala, where a group of friends, inspired by FEE, founded in 1959 the Center for Social and Economic Studies, which in turn founded Francisco Marroquín University in 1971, dedicated to teaching the ethics, economics, and legal foundations of the free society. We are in debt to The [...]
1Jan2006 | FEE Admin | 0 comments | ContinuedBad Is Not Good
Youthful exponents of the freedom philosophy sometimes believe that things will get better politically only if they first get worse. As statism brings its inevitable hardships, people will correctly identify the causes of their adversity and demand a rollback of government power. The Russian Revolution, which grew out of a miserable war, seems to support [...]
1Mar2005 | Sheldon Richman | 0 comments | ContinuedNeoconservatives and the Freedom Philosophy
The winter 2004 issue of The Public Interest contains an article by Adam Wolfson, the publication’s editor, on “Conservatives and Neoconservatives.” Mr. Wolfson outlines some of the central ideas of neoconservatism by contrasting them with what he refers to as traditionalist conservatism, paleoconservatism, and libertarian conservatism. Before World War II, he points out, conservatism was [...]
1May2004 | Richard M. Ebeling | 2 comments | ContinuedNo Shortcuts
For about ten years a number of writers sympathetic to the free market have rejoiced that more and more Americans have become shareholders in corporations through retirement accounts and direct investing. These commentators predicted that widespread stock ownership would effect a radical change in Americans’ attitudes about economic policy. No longer would they be sympathetic [...]
1Feb2003 | Sheldon Richman | 0 comments | ContinuedBack to Basics
Lately I’ve landed in discussions about whether there is such a thing as human action. I’m not kidding. Some educated people have their doubts. Just to be clear from the outset, human action, as Ludwig von Mises pointed out, is purposeful behavior, as opposed to the reflex that occurs when the patellar tendon is struck. [...]
1Dec2002 | Sheldon Richman | 0 comments | ContinuedHappy Birthday, Carl Menger
February 23 is the 161st anniversary of the birth of Carl Menger, founder of the Austrian school of economics. As the economist Joseph Salerno has written, “[I]n its method and core theory, Austrian economics always was and will forever remain Mengerian economics.” It would be hard to overstate how important Menger was in the development [...]
1Feb2001 | Sheldon Richman | 2 comments | Continued-
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