All Posts Tagged With: "gradualism"
Cleaning Up After the Elephants
I detect a pattern in the challenges hurled at liberals on nearly every issue. The opponent of liberalism describes a problem, invariably with roots in a government infringement of freedom. In response, he prescribes more government interference with freedom, at which point the liberal interjects that the best and only just solution is the repeal [...]
1Aug2006 | Sheldon Richman | 0 comments | ContinuedThe Free Society
Failure to go back to first principles in considering what government should do lies at the heart of the sterility of so much of today’s public debate on the issues. Lansing Pollock’s The Free Society seeks to fill that void by providing philosophical foundations for his version of limited government libertarianism. His freedom principle is [...]
1Aug1996 | Robert Batemarco | 0 comments | Continued-
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