Many intellectuals called for an end to private charity and its replacement with a full government system, not due to the paucity of private benevolence, but rather due to what they considered its excessive generosity.
Ebeling lived on AIER’s campus from 2008 to 2009.
Many intellectuals called for an end to private charity and its replacement with a full government system, not due to the paucity of private benevolence, but rather due to what they considered its excessive generosity.
We must have the confidence that freedom is both good in itself and need not be compromised in the face of asserted collectivist dangers abroad or the challenges to liberty here at home.
“Ordered” — as in, I’m commander in chief, and do as you are told by me, or there will be consequences.
Throughout his career as a writer and journalist, which spanned from the 1920s to the 1970s, Schuyler was scathing in his analysis and relentless in his criticisms of white racism in the America of his time.
Trade wars can only be fought with fiscal, monetary, and interventionist regulatory policy tools that hinder and hamper the free choices of all of us, both in the domestic and international marketplaces.
The founder of The Nation magazine would have completely rejected the Green New Deal as a socialist and illiberal disaster.
Yoram Hazony’s call for a conservative traditionalism supported by government through enforced public schooling and political propagandizing in the public square for developing “honorable” conduct among the citizenry is another variation on the collectivist and statist theme.
The American nation is and should be a country of free individuals bound together by a belief in a society of liberty, not a collective mythology of tribes, races, or “classes” to which the individual is subservient and for which he may be sacrificed and subjugated.
Simon Newcomb’s conclusions, after a century and a half more of failed government interferences of almost every imaginable form and type, stand as even more reasonable than when he penned them: those in government should simply leave people alone.
Keep in mind what “progressive” means in this political context: an increase in the size, scope, and cost of government in American society.