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Tag Archives: The Freeman
Putting Bureaucracy First: Rachel Maddow’s Progressivism People Second.
Posted in Political Lunacy Also tagged Benito Mussolini, Facism, Foundation for Economic Education, Keynesianism, MSNBC, Occupy Wall Street, Rachel Maddow, Sheldon Richmond Leave a comment
The importance of the right against self-incrimination.
The Free Life | Wendy McElroy Posted August 16, 2011 on THE FREEMAN “Taking the Fifth” – invoking the right against self-incrimination – is a mainstay of mafia movies in which heinous criminals hide behind liberties guaranteed by the Bill of Rights. Today guarantees such as due process are often portrayed as encumbrances that threaten [...]
We Should Be Free Because We Are Equal
The Calling | Steven Horwitz Posted July 07, 2011 at The Freeman Last week’s column, “The Other Principle of Classical Liberalism,” generated some interesting comments, as did similar arguments I made at Bleeding Heart Libertarians and on my Facebook page. One criticism raised was that libertarianism has little to do with equality because it’s all [...]
Posted in Classical Liberalism, Equality, Uncategorized Also tagged Adam Smith, Classical Liberalism, David Levy, Equality, John Stuart Mill, Libertarian, Steve Horwitz Leave a comment
The Personal Is the Political: Who makes the tradeoffs?
By Steven Horwitz • Posted February 11, 2010 on The Freeman In the last couple of decades, one of the most popular political slogans on the left, especially among feminists, has been: “The personal is the political.” For feminists the phrase is invoked to point out that the personal choices women make — for example, [...]
Posted in Battle for Liberty, Fascism, Individual Liberty, Socialism Also tagged Audi, Enviro Politics, F. A. Hayek, FEE, Green Police, Propaganda, St. Lawrence University, Steve Horwitz, The Road to Serfdom 1 Comment
“Advocates Of Freedom Should Set A Good Example”
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 the [...]
Posted in Markets and Morality Also tagged liberty, St. Lawrence University, Steve Horwitz Leave a comment
The Freeman: Ideas on Liberty
The Foundation for Economic Education (FEE) has just published its November issue of The Freeman. As our readers know, FEE is one of our favorite liberty defending educational organizations. In this issue of The Freeman topics range from government health care, government motors, the cash for clunkers fiasco, hedge funds, the stealth expansion of government [...]
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The Essence of Freedom
Mises Daily by Robert Montgomery | Posted on 9/2/2009 12:00:00 AM When the news of young America’s novel design for living in freedom reached it, the Old World shook its head with profound skepticism. It would never work, they said. The idea was too “revolutionary,” too “progressive,” too “radical,” and certainly too “liberal.” The prevailing [...]
Posted in Classical Liberalism, Tyranny Also tagged Classical Liberalism, Freedom, Mises Institute, Robert Montgomery, Tyranny 1 Comment
Are You Committed To Intellectual and Ideological Integrity?
Where do I compromise in my efforts to communicate the principles and ideas that guide me in my efforts to preserve and restore individual liberty? How well do I know the arguments, history and practice of freedom, its proponents, and its enemies? These questions, which I believe are critical to the restoration and protection of [...]
Posted in Ayn Rand Also tagged Atlas Shrugged, Ayn Rand, Foundation for Economic Education, Leonard Read, The Fountianhead, William Graham Summer 2 Comments
Freedom or Free-for-All?
Lawrence Reed became the president of FEE on September 1 2008. To honor the occasion, we reprint his first “Ideas and Consequences” column, which was originally published in The Freeman in April 1994. Imagine playing a game—baseball, cards, “Monopoly,” or whatever—in which there was only one rule: anything goes. You could discard the “instruction book” [...]
The Case for Economic Freedom – Part 2
Originally published in the Freeman By Benjamin A. Rogge • September 1963 • Volume: 13 • Issue: 9 Basic Values Considered Inasmuch as my own value systems and my own assumptions about human beings are so important to the case, I want to sketch them for you. To begin with, the central value in my [...]
Posted in Economics 101 Also tagged Benjamin A. Rogge, Foudation for Economic Education, President Rossevelt 1 Comment
