All Posts Tagged With: "progressivism"
Capitalism and Democracy
I recently heard a prominent American politician tell how a “chill” went up his spine when he heard someone question the importance of democracy. How could anyone doubt the value of democracy? he wondered. Fortunately, he said, he soon realized that by “democracy” his (European) interlocutor really meant “capitalism.” Whew, he thought, that’s all right, [...]
1Nov2006 | Arthur E. Foulkes | 1 comment | ContinuedBook Reviews – August 2006
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Among the Dead Cities: The History and Moral Legacy of the WW II Bombing of Civilians in Germany and Japan
by A. C. Grayling
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How Progressives Rewrote the Constitution
by Richard A. Epstein Reviewed
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Saving Our Environment from Washington
by David Schoenbrod Reviewed by Jane S. Shaw
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The Quotable Mises
Edited by Mark Thornton Reviewed by William H. Peterson
The Progressive Era’s Derailment of Classical-Liberal Evolution
Fred Smith is president of the Competitive Enterprise Institute. It is true that where a considerable part of the costs incurred are external costs from the point of view of the acting individuals or firms, the economic calculation established by them is manifestly defective and their results deceptive. But this is not the outcome of [...]
1Jun2004 | Fred Smith | 3 comments | ContinuedHow Nineteenth-Century Americans Responded to Government Corruption
James Rolph Edwards is an associate professor of economics at Montana State University-Northern. From its origin as a distinct secular scientific discipline with the French Physiocratic school in the middle of the eighteenth century, and the British classical school that followed, economics had a pro-market, limited-government orientation. Indeed, intellectual historians and political philosophers often refer [...]
1Apr2004 | James Rolph Edwards | 2 comments | ContinuedInvestor Politics: The New Force That Will Transform American Business, Government and Politics in the Twenty-First Century
What better way to strengthen the roots of capitalism than to give its participants a stake in the system! But how? This is the question John Hood addresses in Investor Politics. In a world filled with envy, largely reflecting hatred of capitalism’s wealth-building capabilities, it is refreshing to read the author’s optimism about what’s leading [...]
1Sep2002 | David L. Littmann | 0 comments | ContinuedThe Trouble with Teacher Training
This is an article about an absurd state of affairs in the field of education, but I’d like to begin with a little thought experiment having nothing directly to do with education. Imagine two countries-Freedonia and Ruloveria-whose inhabitants like music. However, the two follow entirely different methods of training the musicians who play in their [...]
1Nov2001 | George C. Leef | 3 comments | ContinuedThe Pledge versus the Oath
When George W. Bush became president last January, he struck a familiar pose. Raising his right hand before the Chief Justice of the Supreme Court, he swore to “preserve, protect, and defend the Constitution of the United States.” The oath serves to remind us that the United States is a constitutional republic with a federal [...]
1May2001 | James Peron | 7 comments | ContinuedGovernment Works: Why Americans Need the Feds by Milton J. Esman
Cornell University Press • 2000 • 196 pages • $26.00 Let’s imagine that we have been sitting through a trial. The prosecution has presented some powerful evidence against the defendant. The defense attorney rises and says, “All we have heard is a lot of mean-spirited bashing of my client. Why, not only does he not [...]
1May2001 | George C. Leef | 0 comments | ContinuedReflections on Self-Responsibility and Libertarianism
Nathaniel Branden is the author of 20 books, including The Art of Living Consciously, Taking Responsibility, and most recently, My Years with Ayn Rand. His Web site is www.nathanielbranden.net. The traditional American values of individualism, self-reliance, self-discipline, and hard work had their roots, in part, in the fact that this country began as a frontier [...]
1Apr2001 | Nathaniel Branden | 3 comments | ContinuedThe New Anti-Liberals
Americans concerned about the inroads that political correctness continues to make into their lives would do well to look northward to Canada. The intrusive regime of moral reformation according to the left is about ten years more advanced there than it is in the United States. The situation permits us to see our probable future. [...]
1Dec2000 | Thomas F. Bertonneau | 0 comments | ContinuedNock on Education
The self-proclaimed “philosophical anarchist” Albert Jay Nock thought he was so superfluous to the society around him that he titled his 1943 autobiography Memoirs of a Superfluous Man. He felt utterly out of step with the twentieth century. Born in 1870, he witnessed the severe societal changes resulting from world wars, revolutions in ideology, and [...]
1Jan2000 | Wendy McElroy | 2 comments | ContinuedAlbert Jay Nock: A Gifted Pen for Radical Individualism
American individualism had virtually died out by the time Mark Twain was buried in 1910. Progressive intellectuals promoted collectivism. Progressive jurists like Oliver Wendell Holmes hammered constitutional restraints as an inconvenient obstacle to expanding government power, supposedly the cure for every social problem.
1Mar1997 | Jim Powell | 1 comment | ContinuedJack the Radical
Mr. Segerdal resides in Glendale, California, where he is a writer. In the late nineteenth century, despite fabulous wealth, gracious living, and an industrial revolution that had reached the far corners of her empire, Britain was also an island of social unrest. Working-class discontent with poverty and disease was fueling the rise of socialism, and [...]
1Apr1996 | Alastair Segerdal | 0 comments | ContinuedThe Rise of Government and the Decline of Morality
Government and Morality The growth of government has politicized life and weakened the nation’s moral fabric. Government intervention—in the economy, in the community, and in society—has increased the payoff from political action and reduced the scope of private action. People have become more dependent on the State and have sacrificed freedom for a false sense [...]
1Mar1996 | James A. Dorn | 0 comments | Continued-
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