system of either compulsory or voluntary government service, usually military, of various countries
“Economic growth, while necessary, is insufficient to address many of the challenges of our 21st-century economy,” Abby McCloskey writes in National Affairs. She offers some policy suggestions to improve connections…
And Sheldon Richman argues against the false notion that people only serve others when they do so through government programs in his column today.
…if you think it is progress to return to conscripting people for the purposes of the government. In the letter below, Don Boudreaux blasts a writer (who I would guess,…
In an unprecedented move, an American president is going to live-stream a message to a captive audience of public-school students. That’s the least of it, though. Teachers are being sent…
Volunteering for charitable work is great, so long as it is voluntary and not government-coerced. Churches and nonprofits do it much better than the government — Katrina is the best…
The Obama Web site has quietly airbrushed the word “require” from his national service page. HotAir also has the original wording.
John McCain has pleased his base now for about three weeks and then he goes and does something like his ridiculous response to the ridiculous slavery question by Whoopi Goldberg…
Apparently not in Illinois, and don’t expect any homework either. Picture your sixth grader in Barack Obama’s plan announced today: MANCHESTER, NH ? Senator Barack Obama today will issue a…
In this essay Sheldon Richman takes a sharp knife to the idea floated by the editor of Time that the U.S. is ready for a “national service” program. It wouldn’t…
In this speech to students at the University of New Hampshire, John Kerry managed to compare himself to both FDR and JFK. Nice! He also promised “the greatest expansion of…