All Posts Tagged With: "supreme court"
A Manifesto for Media Freedom
Americans are blessed with access to an unprecedented variety of media–not to mention ways in which information can be stored and the points of view and ownership interests represented.
As documented in the brisk book A Manifesto for Media Freedom, this cornucopia of media options has led not to celebration of the marvelous diversity that free [...]
FDR’s Lucky Timing
It’s not clear how any of FDR’s 1933 policies could have accounted for a 17 percent increase in GDP, even if they promoted expansion, because they wouldn’t have had time to ripple through the economy. It seems more likely that FDR had the good fortune to come into office near the bottom of the Depression, and enough adjustments in wages, prices, and other factors had occurred that the economy was ready to recover.
10Jun2009 | Jim Powell | 5 comments | ContinuedSupreme Neglect: How to Revive Constitutional Protection for Private Property
The framers of the Constitution were acutely aware that politics—even in the highly limited democracy they envisioned—could be dangerous to private property. For that reason they added the “takings” clause to the Fifth Amendment: “Nor shall private property be taken for public use without just compensation.” Unfortunately, like so much other constitutional language intended to [...]
2Apr2009 | George C. Leef | 1 comment | ContinuedSlick Construction Under the Articles of Confederation
Writing lately on the Fourth Amendment, Professor Thomas Y. Davies decries the “originalism” practiced by certain Supreme Court justices and sundry legal commentators. On historical-hermeneutic grounds, he faults face-value originalism for missing “the shared, implicit assumptions that informed the public meaning” on which a given constitutional provision rested. Underlying the Fourth Amendment were common-law rules [...]
1Apr2008 | Joseph R. Stromberg | 1 comment | ContinuedPolitics Corrupts Money
George Leef is book review editor of The Freeman.
In September the Supreme Court heard oral arguments in the heated battle over campaign finance reform legislation—the so-called Bipartisan Campaign Reform Act, or BCRA. That law, passed by Congress and signed by President Bush in 2002, has been challenged by a wide array of parties, including such [...]
Book Reviews – May 2003
The Savage Wars of Peace: Small Wars and the Rise of American Power
by Max Boot
Basic Books • 2002 • 448 pages • $30.00 hardcover; $16.00 paperback
Reviewed by Ivan Eland
Max Boot provides a thorough and relatively candid history of the U.S. government’s involvement in small wars. The section of the book on Vietnam is particularly honest [...]
Designing Dependence
Government now permeates American life, shaping and determining in countless ways the choices available to us. As Tocqueville feared, the U.S. government has largely succeeded in its efforts to spare us “all the care of thinking and all the trouble of living.” Through Social Security, Medicare, public education, and the rest, the sphere of autonomous [...]
1May2002 | Charlotte A. Twight | 0 comments | ContinuedThe Inventive Period
Andrew Bernstein teaches philosophy at Pace University and is working on a book, The Capitalist Manifesto.
An issue of American Heritage (November 1999), a magazine devoted to analyzing important cultural issues in U.S. history, contains an article that provides ample clues to the true nature of late nineteenth-century America. The piece, “People of Progress,” features the [...]
The Myth of the Social Security Trust Fund
John Attarian is a freelance writer in Ann Arbor, Michigan, with a Ph.D. in economics. Under a grant from the Earhart Foundation, he has completed a book on Social Security, from which parts of this article are adapted.
In my mail the other day, I received a hint of why Social Security reform isn’t happening.
It was [...]
Regulation, the Constitution, and the Economy: The Regulatory Road to Serfdom by James Rolph Edwards
University Press of America • 1998 • 256 pages • $52.00 cloth; $32.50 paperback
James Rolph Edwards invokes a Hayekian legacy in the title of his book, Regulation, the Constitution, and the Economy: The Regulatory Road to Serfdom. In light of Hayek’s belief that freedom cannot endure unless every generation restates and reemphasizes its value, this [...]
A Decree Of Racial Inferiority
F. A. Harper is a member of the staff of the Foundation for Economic Education.
The decision of the Supreme Court on the issue of segregation in the public schools is commonly being heralded as a body blow at racial discrimination. One not a lawyer should hardly presume to question a legal decision of the [...]
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The End of Prosperity: How Higher Taxes Will Doom the Economy–If We Let it Happen
By Arthur B. Laffer, Stephen Moore, and Peter J. Tanous
