All Posts Tagged With: "political power"
Opponents of the "Crown Jewel"
There was a time when self-reliance wasn’t such a tough sell. Today, however, the thought of dismantling Social Security strikes most as somehow un-American. It is, after all, the “cornerstone of the New Deal.” It saved the poor and elderly from indigence and provided dignity in a monthly paycheck. Legend has it that 70 years [...]
1Sep2005 | Jude Blanchette | 1 comment | ContinuedFree Markets, the Rule of Law, and Classical Liberalism
The history of liberty and prosperity is inseparable from the practice of free enterprise and respect for the rule of law. Both are products of the spirit of classical liberalism. But a correct understanding of free enterprise, the rule of law, and liberalism (rightly understood) is greatly lacking in the world today. Historically, liberalism is [...]
1May2004 | Richard M. Ebeling | 1 comment | ContinuedThe Economic Foundation of Freedom
The late Howard Buffett was a U.S. representative from Nebraska (1943–1949 and 1951–1953). This article, condensed from a lecture at Midland College in Fremont, Nebraska, is reprinted from The Freeman: Ideas on Liberty, December 1956. For more information on Buffett see Joseph R. Stromberg, “Howard Homan Buffett: Old Rightist Extraordinaire” at www.antiwar.com/stromberg/s042401.html. A clear understanding [...]
1Sep2003 | Howard Buffett | 1 comment | ContinuedSunshine and the 21st Century
Matthew Hisrich is a policy analyst with the Buckeye Institute for Public Policy Solutions, a free-market research and educational organization in Columbus, Ohio. As Richard Weaver remarked in Ideas Have Consequences, “The typical modern has the look of the hunted. He senses that we have lost our grip upon reality. This, in turn, produces disintegration, [...]
1Jul2001 | Matthew Hisrich | 0 comments | ContinuedProperty and Liberty
Property is “the guardian of all other rights,” as Arthur Lee of Virginia wrote in 1775.[1] The Supreme Court declared in 1897: “In a free government almost all other rights would become worthless if the government possessed power over the private fortune of every citizen.”[2] Unfortunately, legislators, judges, and political philosophers in the twentieth century [...]
1Sep2000 | James Bovard | 5 comments | ContinuedMarkets, Politics, and Civility
“The teachable—those who aspire to an ever greater understanding—are those with an awareness of how little they know.” —Leonard E. Read In March, ABC Television presented “You Can’t Say That!”—another illuminating program by John Stossel. In it, he documented the distressing intolerance that many Americans have for the opinions of others, and a corresponding acceptance [...]
1Jul2000 | Donald J. Boudreaux | 1 comment | ContinuedBenjamin Constant Liberty and Private Life
The French thinker Benjamin Constant was, according to respected Oxford University scholar Isaiah Berlin, “the most eloquent of all defenders of freedom and privacy.” Constant’s most important contribution: he recognized that “the main problem . . . [is] how much authority should be placed in any set of hands. For unlimited authority in anybody’s grasp was bound, he believed, sooner or later, to destroy somebody.”
1Oct1997 | Jim Powell | 0 comments | ContinuedTeachers Unions: Are the Schools Run for Them?
Public education is the most expensive “gift” that most Americans will ever receive. Government school systems are increasingly coercive and abusive both of parents and students. Government schools in hundreds of cities, towns, and counties have been effectively taken over by unions, and children are increasingly exploited, thwarted, and stymied for the benefit of organized [...]
1Jul1996 | James Bovard | 2 comments | ContinuedLord Acton–Political Power Corrupts
Mr. Powell is editor of Laissez Faire Books and a senior fellow at the Cato Institute. He has written for The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, Barron’s, American Heritage, and more than three dozen other publications. Copyright © 1996 by Jim Powell. Few recognized the dangers of political power as clearly as Lord [...]
1Jun1996 | Jim Powell | 2 comments | Continued-
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