All Posts Tagged With: "liberalism"
After Liberalism: Mass Democracy in the Managerial State
Americans have given up freedom and self-government for a mess of pottage. Modern “liberalism,” argues political science professor Paul Gottfried in his insightful new book, rests on a “patricide” of the older liberalism. Whereas liberalism and democracy were once opposed concepts, they are now conflated, to the great detriment of the former. Meanwhile, “democracy,” which [...]
1Oct2000 | Joseph R. Stromberg | 0 comments | ContinuedWilhelm Röpke: A Centenary Appreciation
On January 30, 1933, German president Paul von Hindenburg appointed Adolf Hitler chancellor of Germany. One week later, on February 8, Wilhelm Röpke, a 32-year-old professor of economics at the University of Marburg, delivered a lecture in Frankfurt am Main with the title “End of an Era?” Röpke told his audience that Germany was in [...]
1Oct1999 | Richard M. Ebeling | 2 comments | ContinuedLeonard Read: Light Giver
September 26 marks the centenary of the birth of Leonard E. Read. Read’s life is proof that one person can change things. In 1946 the prospects for individual liberty, private property, and free markets were bleak. The Great Depression and World War II had fostered an interventionist mentality in the United States. The unhampered market [...]
1Sep1998 | Sheldon Richman | 1 comment | ContinuedYale Brozen
Good economists do two things. First, they challenge people’s intuitions. (Such as: social order requires design; more people mean fewer resources; high market share indicates a lack of competition.) Then they make people say, “Oh, that’s simple; I should have thought of that.” By that standard, Yale Brozen, a former member of the University of [...]
1Jun1998 | Sheldon Richman | 0 comments | ContinuedMr. Spencer Versus the State
Herbert Spencer, who would have been 178 years old in April, is a hero of mine. Spencer made himself the very symbol of laissez-faire liberalism in late nineteenth-century England and the United States. He was so much the symbol that he was regularly attacked by the intellectuals who wanted to replace laissez faire—imperfectly as it [...]
1May1998 | Sheldon Richman | 0 comments | ContinuedHow We’ll Know When We’ve Won
“Are we winning?” That’s a query I hear almost every time I speak to an audience about liberty and the battle of ideas. Everyone wants to know if we should be upbeat or distraught about the course of events, as if the verdict should determine whether or not we continue the fight. Too many friends [...]
1Oct1997 | Lawrence W. Reed | 0 comments | ContinuedA Free-Market Case Against Open Immigration?
Recently, upon finishing Leonard Read’s superb book Anything That’s Peaceful (FEE, 1964), I felt a surge of thankfulness and honor. I’m thankful that such a wise man lived and wrote, and I’m honored to now lead the organization that he founded. Leonard Read was truly a great liberal—a liberal, of course, in the original and [...]
1Oct1997 | Donald J. Boudreaux | 5 comments | ContinuedThe Conservative Intellectual Movement in America: Since 1945, 2nd edition by George H. Nash
Intercollegiate Studies Institute • 1996 • 467 pages • $24.95 “We see so far because we stand on the shoulders of giants.” In a nutshell, this is the major lesson to be learned from The Conservative Intellectual Movement in America: Since 1945 by George Nash. First published 20 years ago, this tome breathes life into [...]
1Sep1997 | Robert Batemarco | 0 comments | ContinuedFreedom and Language
Fifty years ago, the world emerged from a military conflict with substantial intellectual ramifications. Nazism and fascism were ideologies that needed to be defeated along with the military powers that wielded them. During the ensuing “cold” war, communism and socialism emerged as ideologies that called for intellectual confrontation. Of course, the United States also fought [...]
1Sep1996 | Aeon J. Skoble | 5 comments | ContinuedContending With Hayek: On Liberalism, Spontaneous Order and the Post-Communist Societies in Transition
Dr. Attarian is a free-lance writer in Ann Arbor, Michigan. Friedrich Hayek is celebrated as a scourge of socialist fallacies and a champion of liberty. As Eastern Europe’s former Communist countries pursue a freer state, what can Hayek’s ideas teach them? Those seeking answers to that question should consult this volume of essays, the result [...]
1Jun1996 | John Attarian | 0 comments | ContinuedThe World in the Grip of an Idea Revisited
The notion of a work under the title The World in the Grip of an Idea began to take shape in my mind in 1976, and I began the writing of it in the fall of that year (which was also the thirtieth anniversary of FEE). A somewhat amended and expanded version was published as [...]
1May1996 | Clarence B. Carson | 1 comment | ContinuedThe Theme Is Freedom: Religion, Politics, and the American Tradition
The sources of the freedoms and form of government that Americans once enjoyed are often a subject of dispute. One side claims that the American republic was the product of the Enlightenment and the spirit of the times. The other holds that the break from Britain was essentially a conservative affair provoked by usurpations of [...]
1Aug1995 | Gregory P. Pavlik | 0 comments | ContinuedLiberalism, Conservatism, and Catholicism: An Evaluation of Contemporary American Political Ideologies in Light of Catholic Social Teaching
With politics increasingly polarized and penetrating more and more facets of life, it becomes important for American Catholics to know which doctrines and parties they can support while remaining faithful to Church teaching. Professor Stephen Krason of Franciscan University of Steubenville has produced an excellent guide for the perplexed. After defining liberalism and conservatism and [...]
1Jun1995 | John Attarian | 0 comments | ContinuedSystems of Survival: A Dialogue on the Moral Foundations of Commerce and Politics
Ever wonder what it would have been like to sit in on a conversation with Ludwig von Mises, Henry Hazlitt, and Leonard Read? Sitting in the backyard at FEE’s compound in Irvington or around the library table, they must have engaged in the give-and-take of good conversation many a time. For perhaps an even more [...]
1Mar1995 | Peter J. Boettke | 0 comments | ContinuedA Matter of Principle: The Second American Revolution?
Mr. Bidinotto, a Staff Writer for Reader’s Digest, is a long-time contributor to The Freeman and lecturer at FEE seminars. Criminal Justice? The Legal System Versus Individual Responsibility, edited by Mr. Bidinotto and published by FEE, is available at $29.95 in cloth and $19.95 in paperback. Please see page 64 for details. In the November [...]
1Jan1995 | Robert James Bidinotto | 1 comment | ContinuedBacksliding Liberalism
A well-known attorney and patriot from Virginia identifies our most dangerous enemies—the foes of our own household. For centuries liberalism has meant a faith in individual liberty—the greatest possible freedom from both private dictation and from regulation by the government. Historic liberals have opposed increased taxing and spending and lawmaking by political rulers because these [...]
1Jul1956 | Donald R. Richberg | 0 comments | ContinuedBook Review: The Decline of American Liberalism by Arthur A. Ekirch, Jr.
New York: Longmans, Green & Co. 401 pp. $7.50. In the very infancy of the American Republic, the tradition of central authority and political privilege began to assert itself despite the liberal individualistic philosophy and limited government ideas embodied in the Declaration of Independence, the Articles of Confederation, and the Constitution. For instance, though the [...]
1Jul1956 | William H. Peterson | 0 comments | Continued-
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