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Intellectuals and Society

If you trace back to the origins of almost any damaging public-policy idea in America, you find it rooted in the imagination of some intellectual. Just to pick one field, consider housing. Why do we have huge tracts of depressing, unsafe, unclean public housing in some of our largest cities? That did not simply happen—the [...]

24Feb2011 | George C. Leef | 5 comments | Continued

The 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 | Continued

The Opium of the Intellectuals

This, the most famous of Aron’s works, was first published in 1955. It is now republished together with the essay “Fanaticism, Prudence and Faith,” which was Aron’s original response to his critics. It thus becomes the fifth volume in Transaction’s series of Aron’s works. In his introduction to this new edition, Professor Harvey Mansfield writes [...]

11Feb2003 | Antony Flew | 0 comments | Continued

They Learned from the Workers

I have a confession to make: there has always been something attractive to me about the Maoist idea of sending the intellectuals out into the countryside and into the factories to “learn from the peasants and proletarians.” When I listen to the endless stream of leftist pronouncements that comes from academia these days I really [...]

1Oct2002 | Stephen Browne | 0 comments | Continued

A Myth Shattered: Mises, Hayek, and the Industrial Revolution

Thomas Woods Jr. holds a Ph.D. from Columbia University and is a professor of history at Suffolk Community College in Brentwood, New York. The standard view of the Industrial Revolution among the general public is that it led to the widespread impoverishment of people who had hitherto been enjoying lives of joy and abundance. For [...]

1Nov2001 | Thomas E. Woods Jr. | 1 comment | Continued

An Aristocracy of Pull?

There are two ways by which rewards can be allocated in a society: status or achievement. Although no society relies solely on one way, the weight placed on one side or the other has profound consequences not only for economic growth, but for politics as well. Societies that place too much emphasis on status will [...]

1Aug2001 | Thomas M. Wilson | 5 comments | Continued

Paranoia About Paranoia in American Politics

Since the 1960s modern “liberals” have often sought to stigmatize those who distrust government as paranoid. This “diagnosis” was first popularized by Columbia University professor Richard Hofstadter (1916–1970). His widely read book The Paranoid Style in American Politics, first published in 1965, presented a thesis that is routinely invoked to delegitimize any criticism of government [...]

1Aug1999 | James Bovard | 0 comments | Continued

Technology and Happiness

Allan Levite is a freelance writer residing in San Francisco, California. While surfing the Internet one day, I chanced upon an article by Jay Hanson, titled “The Woes of Modern Society.”[1] In most respects it was standard environmentalist fare, bemoaning modern technology and the harm it has allegedly done to the earth and to humanity. [...]

1Aug1998 | Allan Levite | 2 comments | Continued

Drawing Life: Surviving the Unabomber

John Attarian is a freelance writer in Ann Arbor, Michigan, and an adjunct scholar with the Midland, Michigan-based Mackinac Center for Public Policy. David Gelernter was a busy associate professor of computer science at Yale University, an artistic man who had entered software research because he wanted a trade. Then, going through his mail on [...]

1Jul1998 | John Attarian | 0 comments | Continued

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