All Posts Tagged With: "voluntary association"
Individualism Clashes with Cooperation? It Just Ain’t So!
Individualists get a bad rap in politics these days. That should come as no surprise; politics these days is dominated by electoral politics, and electoral politics is an essentially anti-individualistic enterprise. With free markets and other forms of voluntary association, people who can’t agree on what’s worthwhile can go their own ways. But the point [...]
20Jan2009 | Charles Johnson | 5 comments | ContinuedSelf-Government and the Distinctive Character of American Civil Society
When America resisted British taxation, Parliament was amused. The Americans would get their comeuppance by force of arms because America had forsaken the law and order of the empire. As days moved to weeks, and weeks to months, the amusement changed to frustration and the frustration to shock. Edmund Burke explained why: We were confident, [...]
1Jul2001 | Hans Eicholz | 0 comments | ContinuedToward an Educational Renaissance
Chris Cardiff is a homeschooling father of three spirited girls, a trustee of the California Homeschool Network, and a vice president of AOL. None of these groups—including his family—necessarily endorses his views. Can parents be trusted to educate their own children? The underlying assumption of America’s vast government school system is that they cannot. Yet [...]
1May2001 | Chris Cardiff | 2 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 | ContinuedOn That Day Began Lies
Leonard E. Read established FEE in 1946 and served as its president until his death in 1983. This article, first published in 1949, is excerpted from Essays on Liberty, Vol. I (1952, pp. 231–252). It is the fifth in a monthly series commemorating the 100th anniversary of Mr. Read’s birth. From the day when the [...]
1May1998 | Leonard E. Read | 2 comments | ContinuedIndividualism and Freedom: Vital Pillars of True Communities
Edward Younkins is professor of accountancy and business administration at Wheeling Jesuit University, Wheeling, West Virginia. Individualism is the view that each person has moral significance and certain rights that are either of divine origin or inherent in human nature. Each individual exists, perceives, experiences, thinks, and acts in and through his own body and [...]
1Jan1998 | Edward W. Younkins | 0 comments | ContinuedA Reviewers Notebook
The late Russell Davenport was an exciting personality. His The Dignity of Man (New York: Harper. 338 pp. $4.00) asks all the right questions even when it fumbles in darkness for the answers. An individualist, Davenport went against the grain of his times from his college days to the very hour of his all-too-early death. [...]
1May1956 | John Chamberlain | 0 comments | Continued-
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