The Free Market 13, no. 12 (December 1995) If it had the will, Congress could kill the redistributionist monster, the Welfare State, that’s consumed at least $5 trillion in wealth since the Great Society. How? Cut anywhere and everywhere, abolish whole agencies, and return the $350 billion saved from next year’s spending to the taxpayers in the
The Free Market 13, no. 12 (December 1995) Cheers to the governors of Alabama and Virginia for sending back millions of dollars earmarked for the “Goals 2000” program slated to be imposed on their states’ schools. After decades of federal attacks on local control, they have responded to voter demands that school centralization be halted. Today,
The Free Market 13, no. 12 (December 1995) Recycling has a high moral status, mostly because kids come home with bad information from schools and, in turn, use it to intimidate their parents. One poll revealed that 63% of kids have told Mom or Dad to recycle. Parents, be ashamed no more! Throw that trash away. There’s no virtue in recycling
The Free Market 13, no. 12 (December 1995) Washington agencies pay private-sector clipping services so senior management can know who their friends and enemies are. Journalists who write negatively about, say, the BATF, immediately enter the agency’s sights. Even if nothing is done with the information, the knowledge that it’s being collected
The Free Market 13, no. 12 (December 1995) Halloween has a socialist tenor. Menacing figures arrive at your door uninvited, demand your property, and threaten to perform an unspecified “trick” if you don’t fork over. That’s the way the government works in a nutshell. Thanksgiving has been reinterpreted as the white man, after burning, raping,
Warfare vs. American Liberty Mises Review 1, No. 4 (Winter 1995) FORGOTTEN LESSONS: SELECTED ESSAYS OF JOHN T. FLYNN Edited by Gregory P. Pavlik Foundation for Economic Education, 1996, vii + 199 pp. John T. Flynn is best known today as a once-liberal columnist for the New Republic who became a bitter enemy of Franklin Roosevelt and a stalwart of
The Sci-Fi Speaker Mises Review 1, No. 4 (Winter 1995) TO RENEW AMERICA Newt Gingrich Harper Collins, 1995, xii + 260 pp. To Renew America conveys a vivid sense of its author’s unusual personality. But the vital core of the book lies elsewhere. In the guise of a reassertion of American values, Speaker Gingrich prescribes a thoroughly statist
The Old South Exemplar Mises Review 1, No. 4 (Winter 1995) THE SOUTHERN FRONT: HISTORY AND POLITICS IN THE CULTURAL WAR Eugene D. Genovese University of Missouri Press, 1995, x + 320 pp. Eugene Genovese is a Marxist historian, but he is a Marxist of a most unusual kind. In this excellent collection of essays, he continually advocates conservative
Neither Content Nor Character Mises Review 1, No. 4 (Winter 1995) THE END OF RACISM: PRINCIPLES FOR A MULTIRACIAL SOCIETY Dinesh D’Souza The Free Press, 1995, xi + 724 pp. D’Souza’s massive tome is structured by a simple message. Relations between whites and blacks in the contemporary United States are deep in crisis, but a way out exists. The
Why The Austrian School Is Austrian Mises Review 1, No. 4 (Winter 1995) AUSTRIAN PHILOSOPHY: THE LEGACY OF FRANZ BRENTANO Barry Smith Open Court, 1994, xii + 381 pgs. As any reader in the tradition will know, Austrian economics has deep links to philosophy. To understand the philosophical background out of which the Austrian School emerged is
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