All Posts Tagged With: "freedom"
The 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 have [...]
Give Up? Are You Kidding?
We should not squander a second feeling bad for ourselves. This is a moment when our true character, the stuff we’re really made of, will show itself. If we retreat, that would tell me we were never really worthy of the battle in the first place. But if we resolve to let these tough times build character and rally our dispirited friends to new levels of dedication, we will look back on this occasion someday with pride at how we handled it.
17Jun2009 | Lawrence W. Reed | 7 comments | ContinuedFreedom Is Not the Issue? It Just Ain’t So!
James Bovard is the author of Attention Deficit Democracy, Terrorism and Tyranny, Lost Rights, and other books.
The Friends of Leviathan are once again encouraging people to forget about freedom. In a May op-ed piece in the New York Times, columnist David Brooks announced, “The central political debate of the 20th century was over the role [...]
Book Reviews – September 2008
- The Politically Incorrect Guide to Capitalism by Robert P. Murphy Reviewed by George C. Leef
- The Shock of the Old: Technology and Global History Since 1900 by David Edgerton Reviewed by David K. Levine
- Illiberal Justice: John Rawls vs. the American Political Tradition by David Lewis Schaefer Reviewed by Tibor R. Machan
- Leaving Women Behind: Modern Families, Outdated Laws by Kimberly A. Strassel, Celeste Colgan, and John C. Goodman Reviewed by Karen Y. Palasek
Growing Up Means Resisting the Statist Impulse
A few months ago, I walked into a restaurant in Naples, Fla., and said “A nonsmoking table for two, please.” The greeter replied, “No problem. All restaurants in Florida are nonsmoking by law. Follow me.”
For a brief moment as we walked to our table, I thought to myself: “Good. No chance of [...]
Principles Must Come Before Politics
Richard Ebeling is the president of FEE.
We live in a time of quick fixes and patent medicines. The “physicians” offering to spoon-feed the elixirs for what ails us are the politicians running for office. Rarely do people step back and ask themselves whether there is really any ailment at all, or whether the politicians’ snake [...]
What Friends of Freedom Can Learn From The Socialists
On March 14, 1883, a German philosopher living in exile in London passed away. When he was buried three days later in a modest grave where his wife had been laid to rest two years earlier, fewer than ten people were present, half of them family members. His closest friend spoke at the gravesite and [...]
1Oct2004 | Richard M. Ebeling | 0 comments | ContinuedThere Is No Central Plan for Winning Liberty
Richard Ebeling is president of FEE. His latest book is Austrian Economics and the Political Economy of Freedom(Elgar).
People who become enthusiastic supporters of the freedom philosophy often ask how the case for individual liberty, free markets, and constitutionally limited government can be successfully spread across the land. How can it triumph over the prevailing system [...]
The Open-Endedness of Knowledge
I intend to explore in this article some aspects of the uniqueness which is FEE, and to express my fervent hope and confidence that such uniqueness will continue to permeate every nook and cranny of FEE’s activities in the years to come. I will begin by noting two related but separate paradoxes that have over [...]
1Jun2003 | Israel M. Kirzner | 0 comments | ContinuedCapital Letters
Free Martha?
To the Editor:
I was surprised to read January’s “Perspective” on Martha Stewart. If she lied when she said “she had a standing order to sell the stock if the price went below $60.00,” and that statement was made in the context of a criminal investigation, she could be guilty of obstruction of justice, whether [...]
Potomac Principles: Seeing the World Plain
Doug Bandow, a nationally syndicated columnist, is a senior fellow at the Cato Institute and the author and editor of several books.
Washington, D.C., is filled with professions of good intentions by politicians and bureaucrats as they steadily strip away Americans’ liberty and money. The political class uses even the most serious social problem to cement [...]
The Economic Advantages of a Commitment to Liberty
In my last column I discussed the bias toward excessive government caused by the dead-weight costs of taxation. Because these costs go unseen, while the benefits from government spending are readily apparent, government expands beyond reasonable limits.
1Apr2000 | Dwight R. Lee | 0 comments | ContinuedTechnology, Progress, and Freedom
Edward Younkins is professor of accountancy and business administration at Wheeling Jesuit University in Wheeling, West Virginia.
Technology represents man’s attempt to make life easier. Technological advances improve people’s standard of living, increase leisure time, help eliminate poverty, and lead to a greater variety of products. Progress allows people more time to spend on higher level [...]
Two Indispensable Lessons
Donald Boudreaux is president of FEE.
The 1900s are now history. I say “1900s” rather than “twentieth century” to avoid irritating those sticklers for precision who note that the final day of the twentieth century is December 31, 2000, and not December 31, 1999.
I agree, too, with sticklers of another sort who point out that, because [...]
There’s No Philadelphia in Europe
Norman Barry is professor of social and political theory at the University of Buckingham in the United Kingdom. He is the author of Business Ethics (Macmillan, 1998).
The member states of the European Union, in their struggles to find some form of international authority, are going through debates that have a strange resonance with America’s arguments [...]
What Price Socialism?
Admiral Moreell is Chairman of the Board of Jones and Laughlin Steel Corporation.
Modern socialism in its several varieties is the culmination of the dreams of countless men and women during the past century and a half. It is a movement which began to crystallize out of the chaotic remnants of the French Revolution. The [...]
Libertarians and the Constitution
Mr. Wolfe is a member of the staff of the Foundation for Economic Education.
Constituion Day
September 17
1787-1956
For over a century after its signing in September 1787, the United States Constitution was upheld by a citizenry which, by and large, appreciated it both in letter and spirit, and sought to live according to its ideal of [...]
21Nov2009 | Charles Hull Wolfe | 0 comments | Continued-
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The End of Prosperity: How Higher Taxes Will Doom the Economy–If We Let it Happen
By Arthur B. Laffer, Stephen Moore, and Peter J. Tanous
