All Posts Tagged With: "Ronald Reagan"
The Struggle to Limit Government: A Modern Political History
Today’s most crucial policy battles are about federal spending and the scope of government power. Cato Institute scholar John Samples reminds us in this book that those battles have their origins in the Progressive era, the New Deal, and the Great Society. Early in the twentieth century Herbert Croly (cofounder of The New Republic) argued [...]
24Aug2011 | Greg Kaza | 0 comments | ContinuedAn Impossible Job
Conventional wisdom has it that the more complex a nation’s economy, the more government oversight and regulation are needed to keep it from spinning out of control. It follows that government must grow in size and complexity along with the economy. Apparently, however, our government has become so vast and complex that it may have [...]
24Feb2011 | Richard W. Fulmer | 2 comments | ContinuedRevolutions and Government Institutions
For all the euphoria over the people-driven revolution in Egypt, whatever regime emerges will in the end carry on business as usual.
9Feb2011 | William L. Anderson | 3 comments | ContinuedThe Great Money Binge: Spending Our Way to Socialism
“Can we do it again?” asks Amity Shlaes in her introduction to this book. She is asking about the Reagan revolution of the 1980s. In his final chapter George Melloan answers yes. But it won’t be easy because of the great expansion of government in 2008-09. He calls for a new vision of “Supply-Side Prosperity.” [...]
24Nov2010 | Gerald P. O'Driscoll, Jr. | 0 comments | ContinuedPresidents and Precedents
America’s 44th president has embarked on a massive expansion of the federal establishment that, if accomplished, will dwarf all previous welfare states in its spending and debt. Americans will largely depend on politicians and their underlings for a significant portion of their heavily mortgaged livelihoods. It’s a path to national suicide that would horrify most [...]
24Feb2010 | Lawrence W. Reed | 13 comments | ContinuedThe End Run to Freedom
What does the future hold for economic life in the United States? Will we move toward greater freedom or less? What role will ideas and rhetoric play, if any, in making sure that the direction is one that lovers of freedom prefer?
1Jun2006 | Russell Roberts | 0 comments | ContinuedThe Lasting Legacy of the Reagan Revolution
Former President Ronald Reagan passed away June 5 at the age of 93. Both while he was in office, from 1981 to 1989, and in the years since, Reagan has been loved and adored by many on “the right” and hated and ridiculed by most on “the left.” During his years as president he represented [...]
1Jul2004 | Richard M. Ebeling | 1 comment | ContinuedSocial Security: Mythmaking and Policymaking
Beginning in 1935, when Social Security was enacted, the program’s administrators made a huge effort to shape the public’s understanding of and beliefs about it. In speeches, articles, pamphlets, and other mass-circulation literature, they described Social Security as “insurance” under which workers pay “contributions” or “premiums” to receive “guaranteed” benefits that, being “paid for,” are theirs “as a matter of earned right,” without any means test.1
1Dec2003 | John Attarian | 7 comments | ContinuedBook Reviews – 2002/2
Voodoo Science by Robert Park Oxford University Press — 2000 — 230 pages — $25.00 Reviewed by Patrick J. Michaels I really wanted to like Robert Park’s Voodoo Science: The Road from Foolishness to Fraud a lot more than I did. It’s a pretty good book about how bad science manages to prosper and replicate, [...]
1Feb2002 | FEE Admin | 1 comment | ContinuedCutting Off Subsidies Restricts Freedom?
One of President George W. Bush’s first acts on taking office was to end taxpayer subsidies to private organizations that provide abortion services overseas. The bellyaching was predictable and deafening. What is sadly emblematic of our time is the fallacy that underlay the protest. Typical was the New York Times editorial of January 24, which [...]
1May2001 | Sheldon Richman | 0 comments | ContinuedMonster
Rule No. 1 for slaying the Hydra: slay it. Don’t just cut off one—or even a few—of its heads. That’s not good enough: the head might grow back. Kill it dead. How many times do we need to be taught that lesson before we learn it? During the presidency of Ronald Reagan the Department of [...]
1Feb1999 | Sheldon Richman | 0 comments | ContinuedThe World in the Grip of an Idea Revisited
The notion of a work under the title The World in the Grip of an Idea began to take shape in my mind in 1976, and I began the writing of it in the fall of that year (which was also the thirtieth anniversary of FEE). A somewhat amended and expanded version was published as [...]
1May1996 | Clarence B. Carson | 1 comment | Continued-
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