All Posts Tagged With: "libertarians"
Getting Taken Seriously by Progressives
If a Progressive-libertarian alliance is going to flourish, both sides will have to get past the prejudices and mistakes that divide them.
27Jan2011 | Steven Horwitz | 42 comments | ContinuedFreedom and Virtue: The Conservative/Libertarian Debate
Libertarians and conservatives seem to want to get along; how else explain this book’s existence? It was published by the Intercollegiate Studies Institute, a now-conservative organization founded by libertarian journalist Frank Chodorov as the Intercollegiate Society of Individualists. What happened when Chodorov passed control of his organization to more conservative characters is emblematic of the [...]
1Dec1999 | Brian Doherty | 0 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 | ContinuedCoercivists and Voluntarists
Categorizing a political position according to some simple left-right scale of values leaves something to be desired. Political views cover such a wide variety of issues that it is impossible to describe adequately any one person merely by identifying where he sits on a lone horizontal line. Use of the single left-right scale makes impossible [...]
1Aug1997 | Donald J. Boudreaux | 4 comments | ContinuedPerspectives on Capitalism and Freedom
Dr. Younkins is professor of accountancy and business administration at Wheeling Jesuit University, Wheeling, West Virginia. Capitalism and freedom are inseparable. In our society we believe that human beings, merely by virtue of being human, possess the capacity to exercise freedom and the right to do so. Each person should be free to own property, [...]
1Dec1996 | Edward W. Younkins | 0 comments | Continued-
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