Economic Schadenfreude
One aspect of the current economic crisis has been the comeuppance for certai
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What Is Liberalism?
The legacy of (classical) liberalism, though never fully implemented, is one of vast economic progress and greater freedom wherever the ideology has been widely tried.
A People’s Uprising Against the Empire
More than the anti-Soviet protests of the late 1980s, the Egyptian uprisings reveal what might eventually come home to the American empire itself, under the right conditions and at the right time.
Libertarianism for Dummies!
The support of libertarians for big business is another debunked myth. So long as these enterprises are compatible with genuine free-market capitalism, fine. But because so many seek subsidies, bailouts, and other forms of coerced largesse, they do not carry the banner of libertarianism.
A Soviet Foreign Policy: A Revisionist Perspective
It is vital — indeed, it is literally a life-and-death matter — that Americans be able to look as coolly and clear-sightedly, as free from myth, at their government's record in foreign affairs as they increasingly are able to do in domestic politics.
I Don’t Like Ike
The Cold War was an unprecedented form of peacetime socialism, designed to appeal to big business, and Eisenhower became its spokesman. Savvy libertarians knew exactly what was going on and supported Cold War opponent Robert Taft.
Are “Sticky Wages” a Market Failure?
Is it really such a stretch to suppose that when the US government (and Federal Reserve) brings the economy closer to outright socialism — as with Hoover, FDR, Bush, Obama, and Bernanke — that those very interventions hamper the economy?
The Reagan Phenomenon
[Free Life: The Journal of the Libertarian Alliance, Vol. 4, No. 1 (1984)]
The Two Faces of Ronald Reagan
A curious thing is happening in this extraordinary election year. The liberals are beginning to adjust to Ronald Reagan. After all, they claim, he's getting more moderate, he'll have to shift to the center to win the election, and he was a moderate and "flexible" governor of California for eight years. Maybe he won't be that bad, certainly not as erratic as Carter.
The Ignorance of New York Magazine
Beam’s chief problem, and the basic nature of New York magazine’s ignorance, is a certain degree of historical illiteracy. But that’s commonplace in our society. It is, therefore, one of the chief things we have to focus on.
