All Posts Tagged With: "individual liberty"
The Struggle to Limit Government: A Modern Political History
Today’s most crucial policy battles are about federal spending and the scope of government power. Cato Institute scholar John Samples reminds us in this book that those battles have their origins in the Progressive era, the New Deal, and the Great Society. Early in the twentieth century Herbert Croly (cofounder of The New Republic) argued [...]
24Aug2011 | Greg Kaza | 0 comments | ContinuedSoft Despotism, Democracy’s Drift: Montesquieu, Rousseau, Tocqueville, and the Modern Prospect
Paul Rahe argues that American democracy is well down the road to the soft despotism that Tocqueville feared. But the outcome is not inevitable.
24Nov2010 | Ross B. Emmett | 0 comments | ContinuedFifty 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 | ContinuedSelf-Ownership or Suicide Prevention?
The core libertarian principle of self-ownership implies that we have a right to commit suicide: the state has no right to forcibly prevent us from killing ourselves. The core psychiatric practice of suicide prevention implies that we have no right to kill ourselves: the state — through its mental health laws and psychiatric agents — [...]
1Mar2004 | Thomas Szasz | 1 comment | ContinuedOn "Elective Despotism"
In From Liberty to Democracy: The Transformation of American Government, Randall Holcombe writes: At the end of the twentieth century, Americans viewed their government very differently from the way it was viewed at the beginning of the nineteenth century. When the nation was founded, the federal government was viewed as a protector of individual rights, [...]
1Jan2004 | Sheldon Richman | 1 comment | ContinuedImmigration: An Abolitionist’s Cause
One of the most frequent arguments used against opening borders is that it would add to the welfare burden of the state and that innocent taxpayers will be compelled to pay for slothful immigrants. Slothful immigrants? Students in my international trade and finance classes always get a good laugh at the notion of “slothful immigrants.” [...]
1Jan2002 | Ken Schoolland | 0 comments | ContinuedJudgments on History and Historians
Historians and laymen alike will find immediate topical value in this compilation of notes and manuscript fragments from lectures presented by Jacob Burckhardt at Basel University, 1865-1885. A severe critic of his own time and staunchly countercultural by today’s prevailing ideologies, Burckhardt differentiated himself in two major areas: his approach to history, which considered every [...]
1Jul2000 | Donald J. Boudreaux | 0 comments | ContinuedVirtual Liberty
Mr. Estabrook is Manager for Education and Training at the Center for Market Processes in Fairfax, Virginia. Free-market advocates often argue that individual liberty is necessary to ensure technological progress. Following the lead of such economists as F. A. Hayek, they contend that only a market system enables each of us to act on our [...]
1Feb1996 | Matthew R. Estabrook | 1 comment | ContinuedMonopoly And Competition
Mr. Smith is Economist for the United States Steel Corporation. Free competition is as much threatened by coercive attempts to perfect it as by direct abuse of monopoly powers According to the writers of economic textbooks, competition is not just competition; there is “perfect competition,” “imperfect competition,” “non-price competition,” “unfair competition,” “potential competition,” “workable competition,” [...]
1Nov1955 | Bradford B. Smith | 0 comments | ContinuedLiberty And Onions
Mrs. Wadhams holds a Masters Degree from Yale; but more important, she also holds some early American principles on government and self-reliance which too many of us seem to have forgotten Extracted from an unpublished manuscript. Events beyond our calculations sent Erland to the New Hampshire legislature f The ordinary citizen does not usually think [...]
1Sep1955 | Nellie K. Wadhams | 0 comments | ContinuedIn An Ideal America
Every Person Should Be Free . . . to pursue his ambition to the full extent of his abilities, regardless of race or creed or family background. . . . to associate with whom he pleases for any reason he pleases, even if someone else thinks it’s a stupid reason. . . . to worship [...]
1May1955 | Leonard E. Read | 0 comments | Continued-
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