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David Hume and Reason In the very title of his article in The Freeman of October 2007, Frank van Dun asks, “Can We Be Free If Reason Is the Slave of the Passions?” His article is uncommonly long and gauzy for a Freeman piece; and his citations to David Hume’s Treatise of Human Nature are [...]
1Jan2008 | Frank van Dun | 0 comments | ContinuedThank You, Internal-Combustion Engine, for Cleaning up the Environment
The internal-combustion engine is widely believed to have been an environmental disaster. It has been accused of harming our health by reducing air quality and contributing to what is currently claimed to be the most threatening of all environmental problems, global warming. But long before carbon dioxide was declared a major pollutant, a car was [...]
1Oct2007 | Dwight R. Lee | 9 comments | ContinuedHenry Ford and the Triumph of the Auto Industry
Anyone strolling by 58 Bagley Street in Detroit early in the morning of June 4, 1896, would have seen a strange sight: Henry Ford, ax in hand, was smashing open the brick wall of his rented garage. He had just started his first gas-powered car, and it was too big to fit through the door. [...]
1Jan1998 | Burton W. Folsom Jr. | 0 comments | ContinuedTechnology and the Work Force: Work Will Not End
Mr. Jonas is the Herman Kahn Fellow at the Hudson Institute, in Indianapolis, Indiana. In his recent provocative book The End of Work, Jeremy Rifkin joins a growing chorus of social pessimists who argue that advanced technology leads to a concentration of wealth in the hands of “the elites” followed by wholesale unemployment for the [...]
1Nov1997 | Donald K. Jonas | 0 comments | Continued-
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