The Free Market 11, no. 9 (September 1993)

Old Right journalist Garet Garrett described the New Deal as a revolution against America’s tradition of private property, limited government, and the rule of law. Indeed it had all die earmarks. President Roosevelt ran against government spending and deficits, but once in office acted like a dictator.

Roosevelt overthrew the traditional limits on government’s role and instituted central planning and welfarism in every sector of the economy.

The Free Market 12, no. 7 (July 1994)

The Free Market 12, no. 7 (July 1994)

American government, we are told, is notable for its stability. And so it seems, at least on the surface. But stability over a long period, as the Russian tsars could tell us, is no guarantee of permanence. And the tsars fell very suddenly after ruling far longer than the U.S. government’s two centuries.

The Free Market 12, no. 7 (July 1994)

Did 12 years of Reagan-Bush corrupt the Right? “Whatever they might say in their after-dinner speeches or in their op-ed pieces,” writes former Wall Street Journal editorialist David Frum in his new book Dead Right, conservatives have “effectively thrown in the towel on government spending” and given up the war against big government.

The Free Market 12, no. 7 (July 1994)

Think of the U.S. Postal Service as a Soviet planning bureaucracy. The P.S. causes severe and systemic dislocations, imposes a terrible burden on enterprise and the citizenry, and is sometimes tyrannical. Also like Soviet planning, the longer it lasts, the worse it gets. It is doomed to fail and be dismantled.

The Free Market 12, no. 7 (July 1994)

Federal bureaucrats think they, not the financial markets should direct investment spending. They want to rebuild “infrastructure,” fund space stations, install magnetic supertrains, and set up information highways (or redistribute the existing ones). That’s what President Clinton means when he says he’ll “grow the economy” through “investment.”

The Free Market 12, no. 7 (July 1994)

Alexandr I. Solzhenitsyn’s return to Russia has engendered more than the usual amount of scaremongering. The author, we are told, is a Pan-Slavic nationalistic and religious fanatic whose views are outdated and irrelevant. Yet Solzhenitsyn used his first speech and press conference in Russia to promote two economic ideas that can actually move Russia forward: private property and free enterprise.

The Free Market 12, no. 9 (September 1994)

In recent years, Americans have been subjected to a concerted assault upon their national symbols, holidays, and anniversaries. Washington’s Birthday has been forgotten, and Christopher Columbus has been denigrated as an evil Euro-White male, while new and obscure anniversary celebrations have been foisted upon us. New heroes have been manufactured to represent “oppressed groups” and paraded before us for our titillation.

The Free Market 12, no. 12 (December 1994)

“Peace on Earth” should be more than a holiday cliché. The costs of war and its perpetual threat are immense, and threaten freedom and civilization itself. Even with the end of the Cold War, the U.S. finds itself in an endless series of military squabbles, including Panama, Iraq, Somalia, and Haiti, with prospects for future involvement in Korea, Bosnia, Cambodia, and Rwanda.

The Free Market 13, no. 1 (January 1995)

The phrase “End Welfare As We Know It” is a classic Clinton evasion. It sounds bold and “neoliberal” at first, but on close examination it collapses into nothingness. Almost any change in a policy qualifies as ending it “as we know it.” It could mean cuts. It could also mean more spending and redistribution.