All Posts Tagged With: "patronage"
Roots of Egypt’s Revolt
Egypt has been a pressure cooker for decades. Like others in the region, the Mubarak regime was sitting atop a simmering political crisis, simultaneously attempting to contain rising Islamist violence and snuff out pockets of political resistance. The country has been under a continuous state of emergency since the assassination of Mubarak’s predecessor, Anwar Sadat, [...]
21Apr2011 | Nouh El Harmouzi | 2 comments | ContinuedBarack Obama Stumping for the Olympics
For those of you who don’t live in Chicago and find yourself wondering why Barack Obama would take time off during a missile crisis, an economic recession, and an critical healthcare debate, just to go stump for the Olympics, let me explain.Barack Obama’s career is a project of the Richard M. Daley Machine. As such, [...]
28Sep2009 | Mike Van Winkle | 2 comments | ContinuedNew Deal or Raw Deal? How FDR’s Economic Legacy Has Damaged America
Not everyone loved President Franklin D. Roosevelt. Even in 1936, when he enjoyed his most lopsided electoral victory, almost 17 million voters cast their ballots for Alf Landon. During Roosevelt’s long presidency, he attracted vigorous literary critics, such as H. L. Mencken, John T. Flynn, and Garet Garrett. But the winners write the history, and [...]
19Aug2009 | Robert Higgs | 3 comments | ContinuedArtistic Freedom Requires Economic Freedom
Tyler Cowen is a professor of economics at George Mason University. This article is taken from In Praise of Commercial Culture, published by Harvard University Press. Copyright © 1998 by the President and Fellows of Harvard College. All rights reserved. Psychological motivations, though a driving force behind many great artworks, do not operate in a [...]
1Jan1999 | Tyler Cowen | 2 comments | Continued-
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