All Posts Tagged With: "personal responsibility"
The Liability Lottery: Politics by Other Means
Mr. Bandow, a nationally syndicated columnist, is a senior fellow at the Cato Institute and the author and editor of several books, including Tripwire: Korea and U.S. Foreign Policy in a Changed World. Liability law, no less than war, has become a continuation of politics by other means. When defeated at the ballot box, interest [...]
1Jun1997 | Doug Bandow | 0 comments | ContinuedBook Review: What It Means to Be a Libertarian: A Personal Interpretation by Charles Murray
Broadway Books • 1997 • 192 pages • $20.00 Mr. Bandow, a senior fellow at the Cato Institute, is a monthly columnist for The Freeman. Charles Murray has long been one of America’s most important social scientists. His book Losing Ground touched off a debate over welfare policy by challenging widely held misconceptions of government [...]
1Jun1997 | Doug Bandow | 0 comments | ContinuedTaking Responsibility: Self-Reliance and the Accountable Life
Mr. Madden is an instructor in communication at Mt. Mercy College in Cedar Rapids, Iowa. Responsibility is a favorite buzzword on the current political scene. Yet even many conservatives have a faulty notion of what the concept actually entails. In his latest book, psychologist Nathaniel Branden sets forth a sound approach to this critical issue. [...]
1Oct1996 | Russell Madden | 0 comments | ContinuedPrivate Rights and Public Illusions
In many quarters these days it is fashionable to debunk the so-called “myth of the individual.” Tibor Machan’s book might be seen as a refreshing debunking of the “myth of the public.” I say refreshing, partly because those who debunk the first myth are often victims of the second. In addition, although his is not [...]
1Feb1996 | Doug Den Uyl | 0 comments | ContinuedLoving Your Neighbor: A Principled Guide to Personal Charity
Mr. Brown is Director of Publications at The Philanthropy Roundtable in Indianapolis, Indiana. Loving Your Neighbor is essentially a sequel to The Tragedy of American Compassion, Marvin Olasky’s highly influential history of efforts to fight poverty in America. The earlier work shows how, over time, the spiritual foundation and personal character of assistance to the [...]
1Jan1996 | Montgomery B. Brown | 0 comments | Continued-
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