All Posts Tagged With: "liberals"
Stop the Bad Guys
It’s not too much of a simplification to say that modern American conservatives believe the national government to be ignorant, bumbling, and corrupt when it meddles in the U.S. economy, but sagacious, sure-footed, and righteous when it meddles in foreign-government affairs. Nor are the boundaries of acceptable simplification breached by saying that modern American “liberals” [...]
25May2011 | Donald J. Boudreaux | 19 comments | ContinuedStill Neither Left Nor Right
We live in a time when virtually all political parties and candidates stand for the same fundamental ideological idea: state interventionism and compulsory redistribution.This also applies to the mainstream media. Even many who say they adhere to a pro-market view of things in fact turn out to be only more moderate advocates of government regulations and welfare-state programs.
1Jan2006 | Richard M. Ebeling | 0 comments | ContinuedInfatuated with Politics
The most striking fact about modern-day “liberals” is their thoroughgoing infatuation with politics. In their worldview, almost every objective should be pursued through legislation, regulation, or legal action. It’s a reflex. What distinguishes liberals is not their objectives, which range from the laudable to the ridiculous, but their insistence that politics is the best or [...]
1Jul2005 | George C. Leef | 0 comments | ContinuedSelling the Free Market to Nonbelievers
Ralph Hood is writer in Huntsville, Alabama. During most of my life I have failed miserably to turn so-called liberals into free-market advocates. Perhaps it was my attitude. “If you weren’t so stupid you could understand” is a poor way to sell an idea, I guess. It surely didn’t work for me. Lately, to my [...]
1Feb2005 | Ralph Hood | 0 comments | ContinuedWho Is a Liberal?
Liberals have it tough. I mean the real liberals. Not the modern watered-down socialists who call themselves liberals, but real, honest classical liberals. There is so much confusion over the term “liberal,” and real ones have allowed fake ones to get away with this subtle destruction of the language. Recently I was reading two different [...]
1May2002 | James Peron | 2 comments | ContinuedNeither Left nor Right
The problem with the pendulum approach is that Adam Smith is characterized as “extreme” as Karl Marx. By implication, neither economist is sensible.
1Jul2000 | Mark Skousen | 0 comments | ContinuedPick a Better Country by Ken Hamblin
The story is told that Ludwig von Mises was once asked, "Do you mean to say that
the government should have done nothing during the Great Depression?" Mises
responded, "I mean to say it should have started doing nothing long before
that." I hope the story is not apocryphal, because it perfectly sums up the
government’s proper role in managing the economy: none.
The Just Society
Dr. Nash is professor of philosophy at Reformed Theological Seminary and the author of Why the Left is Not Right: The Religious Left in America (Zondervan Publishing House). Whenever one comes upon a university press book containing multiple essays by different authors, all of them academics, it’s a pretty safe bet that the book will [...]
1Oct1996 | Ronald Nash | 0 comments | Continued-
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