By Matthew Spalding*
Liberty is the essential idea that is America. It is at once our greatest inheritance, our greatest achievement, and our greatest bequest to posterity. The Declaration of Independence asserts unalienable rights to “life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness,” and the Constitution is meant to “secure the blessings of liberty.” [...]
Steven Horwitz is the Charles A. Dana Professor of Economics at St. Lawrence University and I have grown to respect his intellect and the integrity with which he conducts himself in his profession. In an article, just posted on The Freeman, Professor Horwitz addresses the need for the defenders of freedom to stay on [...]
December 7, 2009 8:53 PM by Richard Ebeling on the Mises Blog
Friends of freedom are frequently accused of being “extremists” in not being willing to “compromise” with a “reasonable” amount of government regulation, welfare redistribution, and social intervention.
But who really is the extremist, the advocate of liberty who respects diversity and differences among men and [...]
“The essence of liberty has always lain in the ability to choose as you wish to choose, because you wish to choose, uncoerced, unbullied, not swallowed up in some vast system; and in the right to resist, to be unpopular, to stand up for your convictions merely because they are your convictions. That is [...]
Originally printed in The Freeman: By Benjamin A. Rogge • September 1963 • Volume: 13 • Issue: 9
My economic philosophy is here offered with full knowledge that it is not generally accepted as the right one. On the contrary, my brand of economics has now become Brand X, the one that is never selected as [...]
B Y L AWRENCE W. R E E D
These are the times that try men’s souls. The summer soldier and the sunshine patriot will, in this crisis, shrink from the service of their country; but he that stands by it now, deserves the love and thanks of man and woman. Tyranny, like hell, is [...]
“The Modern Liberal believes in the supremacy of the state,” writes Mark Levin, in his just released book, “Liberty and Tyranny: A Conservative Manifesto,” he continues, “thereby rejecting the principles of the Declaration and the order of the civil society, in whole or part. For the Modern Liberal, the individual’s imperfection and personal pursuits [...]
Post by Dan Jensen
As we work harder, more and more people feel entitled to the fruits of our hard work. These people have organized and elected a federal government that sees fit to transfer 100% of the tax burden to the upper 49% of wage earners in this country. If successful, please tell [...]
Adam Smith, who lived in the eighteenth century, provided the philosophical and most systematic arguments for the underpinnings of a laissez-faire economic system in his book “The Wealth of Nations.” Smith makes the argument that it was only the interference of government which disrupted the natural working of economic society and created poverty and [...]
