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Ready for Hillary?!
In this sharp Freeman essay, Jeffrey Tucker disabuses readers of the idea that Hillary Clinton would pursue policies good for women — or good for anyone other than the apparatchiks…
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Among the worst of myths: government spending boosts the economy
It isn’t so and can’t be so, as Professor Robert Murphy explains in this Freeman piece posted today.
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Sandy Ikeda on two differing visions of law and order
Economics professor Sandy Ikeda hits the nail on the head with his Freeman piece today. Every passage in the piece is eminently quotable, but here’s perhaps the best: “Governments equate…
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Boo! Freedom is scary, so vote for politicians who’ll protect us
Today’s Freeman piece by Connor Boyack nails it: rulers (elected and otherwise) have long relied upon fear to get people’s support. They trot out all sorts of reasons to make…
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A very different sort of criticism of Piketty
In his big attack on capitalism, Piketty doesn’t just rely on dubious numbers and downright awful theory, he also relies on works of literature that he thinks help to prove…
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We need big government as a check on big business
That’s another of the cliches of progressivism and Julian Adorney torpedoes it in today’s Freeman piece. Big business and government often cooperate for mutual gain, at the expense of small business,…
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The ominous trend toward deputizing America
Iain Murray explores in this Freeman piece another disturbing “Big Brother” trend in America, namely the way the government now coerces private businesses into doing its snooping. The old America…
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Has the libertarian moment arrived?
In this Freeman piece today, Doug Bandow says that, despite the manifest disasters and waste brought about by big government, the libertarian moment has not arrived. His argument is that…
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Big Brother is doing “diversity mapping”
The statists never stop finding new ways for the government to meddle in our lives and in this Freeman piece, Wendy McElroy informs us about another and very ominous federal…
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Powerful governments never like dissent
In another of his superb Freeman articles, economics professor Sandy Ikeda today writes about how socialism leads to the stifling of dissent. Not just de facto socialism, of course. Obama…
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Britain and World War I — War really is the health of the state
Today’s Freeman piece makes that point crystal clear. Before the war, British citizens had little contact with the government, but after the war, there was little in British society that…
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Perhaps the worst progressive cliche of all
Today’s installment in FEE’s cliches of progressivism series nails what is arguably the worst, most insidious of them all: that human rights are more important than property rights. Long-time Freeman…