All Posts Tagged With: "tradition"
Hayek and Freedom
A few years ago I had the opportunity to look through a transcription of a set of note cards that F. A. Hayek kept through the latter years of his life. It was fascinating to see how he wrote for himself and to get glimpses of ideas that would later be more fully fleshed out. [...]
1May2006 | Steven Horwitz | 0 comments | ContinuedNeoconservatives and the Freedom Philosophy
The winter 2004 issue of The Public Interest contains an article by Adam Wolfson, the publication’s editor, on “Conservatives and Neoconservatives.” Mr. Wolfson outlines some of the central ideas of neoconservatism by contrasting them with what he refers to as traditionalist conservatism, paleoconservatism, and libertarian conservatism. Before World War II, he points out, conservatism was [...]
1May2004 | Richard M. Ebeling | 2 comments | ContinuedWhat Happened to China?
Asked to pick from among the world’s nations the one with the best prospects for years ahead, an early fifteenth-century futurist would have bet on China. All the indicators pointed to it as destined to outpace every other civilization on the planet. Among the things the futurist might have noted was Chinese technology. In 1400 [...]
1Aug2002 | Harold B. Jones Jr. | 2 comments | ContinuedThe Government’s Assault on Golf
Tour professional Casey Martin cheats at golf. And he does so with the government’s help through a particularly bad federal law and judicial overreach. Since late 1997 Martin has been riding in a golf cart, which is against both the rules of the Professional Golfers Association Tour (PGA Tour) and the 500-year tradition of golf [...]
1Nov2000 | Raymond J. Keating | 0 comments | ContinuedThe Virtue of Civility: Selected Essays on Liberalism, Tradition, and Civil Society
Father Robert A. Sirico is president of the Acton Institute for the Study of Religion and Liberty in Grand Rapids, Michigan. After decades of interest groups aggressively asserting their “rights,” often gained only at the expense of others, our political culture is starting to take notice of the notion of “civility.” The left identifies the [...]
1Aug1998 | Robert A. Sirico CSP | 1 comment | Continued-
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