All Posts Tagged With: "the state"
Obama and the Public
Broken or not, government at the moment is not inspiring confidence in the majority of people. That’s good news for those who look to government for neither inspiration nor solutions.
5Feb2010 | Sheldon Richman | 7 comments | ContinuedThe A Word
I confess to having deep sympathies for anarchism. I hold open the possibility and the hope that a prosperous and peaceful society can flourish without the state. Unfortunately, the word “anarchy” has an offensive connotation. Anarchy is commonly understood to mean “lawlessness.” And lawlessness truly is offensive. A lawless society has no rules to govern [...]
1Jul2001 | Donald J. Boudreaux | 5 comments | ContinuedThe Disadvantages of Being Educated edited by Robert M. Thornton
Hallberg Publishing Corp., Tampa, Florida 33623 • 1996 • 221 pages • $14.95 paperback The Reverend Mr. Opitz served on the senior staff of The Foundation for Economic Education for 37 years. Now retired, he continues to serve FEE as a Trustee, and as a contributing editor of The Freeman. The Disadvantages of Being Educated [...]
1Jul1997 | Edmund A. Opitz | 0 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 | ContinuedAs Frank Chodorov Sees It
On the thirty-eighth anniversary of the Bolshevik revolution, Mr. Lazar M. Kagonovich, spokesman for the Soviet regime, declared that “the twentieth century is the century of triumph of socialism and communism.” The gentleman implied, as a true Marxist should, that by the year 2000 A.D. the star of Moscow will direct the pattern of life [...]
1Jan1956 | Frank Chodorov | 0 comments | ContinuedThe State
Frédéric Bastiat (1801-1850) was an economist, statesman, and author during a period when France was drifting rapidly toward socialism. His clear description of that trend and its evil consequences, written in 1849, merits serious consideration in the United States of America today. I wish someone would offer a prize—not of a hundred francs but of [...]
1Nov1955 | Frederic Bastiat | 0 comments | ContinuedThe Forgotten Man
Mr. Chamberlain, the well-known literary critic, is also an associate editor of Barron’s. He’s the one from whom the money is taken to subsidize the others A nation begins to decline when it neglects its own classics. But no trend is necessarily permanent, and classics can come back. Take the case of William Graham Sumner’s [...]
1Sep1955 | John Chamberlain | 4 comments | Continued-
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