All Posts Tagged With: "liberty"
The Sound of Freedom
When I have the chance, I often pose this question to people who have become advocates for liberty: “What was it that first turned you on to these ideas?”
It’s an important question that always produces revealing answers and sometimes some fascinating stories. Liberty, keep in mind, is not automatic or guaranteed. Few people who have [...]
Two Decades Since the Fall
Perspective
Two Decades Since
the Fall
On November 9, 1989, the Berlin Wall effectively ceased to exist. Remember the sequence: Communist Hungary started letting people pass into Austria and to freedom. Captives of the Soviet bloc left in droves. East Germans, too—thousands of them. The Hungarian government tried to stanch the flow, but the dam had been breached. [...]
A Tribute to the Polish People
The cause of liberty saw memorable highs and unconscionable lows in 1989. Surely that year will be best remembered as the year Soviet hegemony over central Europe disintegrated, paving the way for the dissolution of the Soviet Union itself in 1991. Free people everywhere should toast the brave people of one nation in particular–Poland–for the [...]
23Sep2009 | Lawrence W. Reed | 6 comments | ContinuedGive Up? Are You Kidding?
We should not squander a second feeling bad for ourselves. This is a moment when our true character, the stuff we’re really made of, will show itself. If we retreat, that would tell me we were never really worthy of the battle in the first place. But if we resolve to let these tough times build character and rally our dispirited friends to new levels of dedication, we will look back on this occasion someday with pride at how we handled it.
17Jun2009 | Lawrence W. Reed | 7 comments | ContinuedFrom Good Samaritan to Robin Hood
The clamor from interventionists against inequality morphs into a clamor for a larger and larger state. This path leads to the loss of liberty and a distortion of both democracy and justice. It distorts democracy because, by attempting to solve inequality, it removes limits to power and expands the field of state action. It distorts justice because the only way to solve inequality politically is for the state to have the power to treat individuals unequally. Thus the struggle to eliminate inequality ends up destroying the most important form of equality for an open society: equality before the law.
10Jun2009 | Carlos Rodríguez Braun | 1 comment | ContinuedInclined to Liberty: The Futile Attempt to Suppress the Human Spirit
Some people, writes Louis Carabini, are naturally “inclined to liberty.” That is, their thoughts revolve around voluntary action to accomplish their objectives and solve problems. As a Freeman reader, you are probably such an individual. On the other hand, there are many others who are instinctively drawn to coercion to accomplish their objectives and solve [...]
21May2009 | George C. Leef | 0 comments | ContinuedWhat We Believe
The Foundation for Economic Education, publisher of this magazine since 1956, is now in its seventh decade, and I am now in my seventh month as its president. As we expand the outreach of our programs and publications, now is a good time to remind our readers who we are and what we believe in.
FEE’s [...]
Prophets of Property
In 1800, fewer than 1 million people lived in London; a century later, well over 6 million. As the 20th century dawned, London had already been the most populous city on the planet for seven decades. Britain’s population as a whole soared from 8 million in 1800 to 40 million in 1900. In the previous [...]
1Jul2007 | Lawrence W. Reed | 0 comments | ContinuedModern Liberty and the Limits of Government
By Charles Fried Reviewed by Richard M. Ebeling
1Apr2007 | agardner | 0 comments | ContinuedThere Is No Central Plan for Winning Liberty
Richard Ebeling is president of FEE. His latest book is Austrian Economics and the Political Economy of Freedom(Elgar).
People who become enthusiastic supporters of the freedom philosophy often ask how the case for individual liberty, free markets, and constitutionally limited government can be successfully spread across the land. How can it triumph over the prevailing system [...]
The Economic Advantages of a Commitment to Liberty
In my last column I discussed the bias toward excessive government caused by the dead-weight costs of taxation. Because these costs go unseen, while the benefits from government spending are readily apparent, government expands beyond reasonable limits.
1Apr2000 | Dwight R. Lee | 0 comments | ContinuedThe Costs of War: America’s Pyrrhic Victories edited by John V. Denson
Transaction Publishers • 1997 • 450 pages • $44.95 cloth; $29.95 paperback
Doug Bandow is a senior fellow at the Cato Institute and author of Tripwire: Korea and U.S. Foreign Policy in a Changed World. He formerly served as a special assistant to President Reagan.
Advocates of limited government have long known that war and preparation for [...]
Between Power and Liberty: Economics and the Law edited by Richard M. Ebeling
Hillsdale College Press • 1998 • 169 pages • $9.95 paperback
Philip Murray is an associate professor of economics at Webber College in Babson Park, Florida.
Between Power and Liberty: Economics and the Law, is the publication of the 1997 Ludwig von Mises lectures at Hillsdale College. The book’s title comes from James Madison’s description of the [...]
Tidings from the Lord
Mr. Read is President of the Foundation for Economic Education.
Imagine a stairway with an infinite number of steps. Next, imagine such a stairway for every subject known and unknown to man—an infinity of stairways.
With these infinities in mind, I contemplate my own several stairways of knowledge, particularly the one that is my favorite [...]
Book 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 [...]
The Literature of Freedom
Mr. Hazlitt, author of “Economics in One Lesson” and other libertarian works is a contributing editor of “Newsweek.”
The free man’s library is a descriptive and critical bibliography of works on the philosophy of individualism—“individualism” in a broad sense. The bibliography includes works which explain the workings and advantages of free trade, free enterprise, and [...]
The Liberal in the Modern World
Mr. Phelan is vice president of the St. Louis Union Trust Company. This article is from a 13-page essay.
Perhaps the most fundamental difference between traditional liberals and twentieth century liberals is their attitude toward man. The traditional liberal thinks in terms of man as an individual. The twentieth century liberal thinks of man as a [...]
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The End of Prosperity: How Higher Taxes Will Doom the Economy–If We Let it Happen
By Arthur B. Laffer, Stephen Moore, and Peter J. Tanous
