Big Government

Presented as part of the Mises Institute’s Brown Bag Seminar series on 20 January 2005 in Auburn, Alabama.

To a person who appreciates the efforts of private philanthropists, President Bush's effort to promote charity might have rung a very sour note.

Grant Nülle shows how the EU's fiscal stability pact is coming unravelled. 

Just when the goose starts losing enthusiasm for laying golden eggs, the policy farmers begin to poke them with a tried and true stick: tax reform.

Every winter of bad weather brings us the same scenes of bleak road and highway conditions. Paul Servodio suggests one fix: eliminate public ownership and all that goes with it. 

Lenin once dismissed the question of how socialism would work by pointing to the workings of the post office. Gregory Bresiger tried his best to avoid this pocket of socialism, but it was just unavoidable.

The movement to privatize Social Security, writes Lew Rockwell, is both ideologically duplicitous and fiscally irresponsible.

Reading Robert Higgs’s magnificent collection of essays leaves one puzzled. Higgs is the foremost American economic historian who writes from a free-market perspective.

If we continue to pay attention to authors like Schlosser and Ehrenreich who blame the free market for the problems we face, public support for the market will dwindle to less than it is already, and the prosperity that the free market generates will be destroyed.

Not long after the common school movement began, a new movement appeared, writes Barry Simpson. This new movement called for compulsory attendance.