14. Child Labor and the British Industrial Revolution
BY LAWRENCE W. REED
EVERYONE agrees that in the 100 years between 1750 and 1850 there took place in Great Britain profound economic changes. This was the age of the Industrial Revolution, complete with a cascade of technical innovations, a vast increase in industrial production, a renaissance of world trade, and rapid growth of urban populations.
15. The Pen is Mightier than the Plan
BY GREGORY F. REHMKE
16. Why Liberty and Morality are Inseparable
BY GEORGE C. ROCHE III
EXAMINING American culture today, one can find ample reason to despair of our future. On many sides we see the spread of false values and decadence. In too many places we see a dehumanizing impulse which cheapens the worth and dignity of life to the vanishing point. That impulse reveals a sickness in our underlying moral beliefs. Yet our headlong decline evokes only a murmur of concern and alarm. It is as if we were being fitted for our own annihilation.
17. Make-Work Jobs
BY DEAN RUSSELL
THE IDEA that “government should provide a job for any person who wants to work, and can’t find employment” became a permanent part of the American economic philosophy during the terrible depression of the 1930s. Over the years, that idea has developed from “a job of any kind, however undesirable and low-paying” into the idea of “a meaningful job at an acceptable rate of pay.”
18. Eternal Hope
BY HANS F. SENNHOLZ
19. The Primacy of Freedom
BY BRIAN SUMMERS
THERE is a time to ask basic questions. Now, as we mark the retirement of Dr. Paul L. Poirot, who has contributed so much time, energy, and wisdom to the cause of liberty, it is perhaps appropriate for each of us to ask himself: Why should I follow this man’s lead and dedicate myself to advancing the freedom philosophy?
20. The Transformation of “Liberalism”
BY JOHN K. WILLIAMS
ONLY a person consumed by self-hatred would ascribe to himself or herself the adjective “illiberal.” The term itself derives from the Latin illiberalis, meaning “mean” or “sordid.” The word is defined in The Oxford English Dictionary by such expressions as “not befitting or of the nature of a free man,” “not generous in respect to the opinions, rights, or liberty of others,” “narrow-minded, bigoted,” and “base, mean, vulgar, rude, sordid.”
21. The Unnoticed Erosion of the Meaning and Value of Liberty
BY ANNE WORTHAM
22. Addendumhe Gains Most Who Serves Best
BY PAUL L. POIROT
The Austrian School of Economics
