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From 1944 to Nineteen Eighty-Four
A longer version of this article appears at the FEE website: www.tinyurl.com/npxxet.
I’m inclined to think of George Orwell and F. A. Hayek at the same time. Both showed great courage in writing the truth, undaunted by the consequences. Both valued freedom, though they understood it differently.
Orwell, a man of the “left,” could not remain silent [...]
From 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 | ContinuedGrand Street Never Dies
Mr. Chodorov is editor of The Freeman.
Any mortal bearing The Truth may be right, but it is best to be cautious and skeptical
Too bad you never knew the Grand Street “coffee saloon”; it was quite an institution before World War I. The coffee served was mostly milk—or it might be tea with lemon, [...]
Freedom In Transactions
In 1848, a French legislator tried to tell his countrymen how the God-given self-interest of each person benefits the welfare of the group
On entering Paris, which I had come to visit, I said to myself—Here are a million of human beings who would all die in a short time if provisions of every kind [...]
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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
