Classical Liberalism
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Reflections Sparked by A New Jersey Turnpike Rest Area
“I’m confident that everyone at the New Jersey Turnpike rest area, if pressed to think seriously about this feature of the liberal market order as he or she surveyed fellow rest-area visitors, would heartily applaud.” ~ Donald J. Boudreaux
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Would You Abdicate If You Could Be the Dictator?
“Our fellow Americans need to be reasoned with to better understand that we should not only not want a dictatorship imposed from outside but we should also not want a domestic dictatorship, even when democratically elected, to paternalistically ‘get things done.'” ~ Richard M. Ebeling
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Parity Without Socialism: Economic Freedom and Opportunity for Women
“There is a simple policy solution for expanding opportunity for women and giving voice to them: increased economic freedom. Markets solve, as we discovered in undergraduate microeconomics… and without the unintended consequences of illiberal intervention.” ~ Megan V. Teague & Nikolai G. Wenzel
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The Rule of Law
“The rule of law gives warrant to liberalism. We should better learn to expound on how liberalism promotes the rule of law and how the governmentalization of social affairs tends to destroy the rule of law.” ~ Daniel B. Klein
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Leave Me Alone and I’ll Make You Rich, Part 2
“If liberal society is to be preserved, there is no time to lose in attempting to shore up its philosophical foundations. Leave Me Alone is an estimable effort at doing that.” ~ George Leef
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How UT-Austin Administrators Destroyed an Intellectual Diversity Initiative
“The extreme hostility of the faculty toward this project shows the desperate need for something serious along these lines. However, with the current administration at UT-Austin, nothing will be possible without far more direct state intervention.” ~ Richard Lowery
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Market Solutions to Ancient Sins
“Ferguson and Witcher make persuasive arguments in favor of the classical liberal narrative about black history, and they also provide valuable summaries of and introductions to the work of other important classical liberal and libertarian scholars on race.” ~ Jason Jewell
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More On Nancy MacLean’s Egregious ‘Scholarship’
“MacLean continues to tell fantastically false fables about prominent classical-liberal scholars, many of whom are now dead and, hence, unable to defend themselves from being falsely portrayed by MacLean as cartoonish villains.” ~ Donald J. Boudreaux
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Setting the Record Straight on “Setting the Record Straight on the Libertarian South African Economist W.H. Hutt and James M. Buchanan”
“MacLean et al. have in fact set nothing straight, and their argument, far from being ‘irrefutable,’ wrecks itself upon the rocks of at least one major citation error, selective use of documents, and willful misreadings of Hutt’s words devoid of their original context.” ~ Phillip W. Magness & Art Carden
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The Lineaments of the Ancient Constitution
“The American Founders recognized that, although they were separating from England, they were also extending an English past that had withstood trials and tribulations, establishing sound institutions that affirmed and protected prescriptive rights and liberties.” ~ Allen Mendenhall
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Reflections Sparked by A New Jersey Turnpike Rest Area
“I’m confident that everyone at the New Jersey Turnpike rest area, if pressed to think seriously about this feature of the liberal market order as he or she surveyed fellow rest-area visitors, would heartily applaud.” ~ Donald J. Boudreaux
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Would You Abdicate If You Could Be the Dictator?
“Our fellow Americans need to be reasoned with to better understand that we should not only not want a dictatorship imposed from outside but we should also not want a domestic dictatorship, even when democratically elected, to paternalistically ‘get things done.'” ~ Richard M. Ebeling
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Parity Without Socialism: Economic Freedom and Opportunity for Women
“There is a simple policy solution for expanding opportunity for women and giving voice to them: increased economic freedom. Markets solve, as we discovered in undergraduate microeconomics… and without the unintended consequences of illiberal intervention.” ~ Megan V. Teague & Nikolai G. Wenzel
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The Rule of Law
“The rule of law gives warrant to liberalism. We should better learn to expound on how liberalism promotes the rule of law and how the governmentalization of social affairs tends to destroy the rule of law.” ~ Daniel B. Klein
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Leave Me Alone and I’ll Make You Rich, Part 2
“If liberal society is to be preserved, there is no time to lose in attempting to shore up its philosophical foundations. Leave Me Alone is an estimable effort at doing that.” ~ George Leef
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How UT-Austin Administrators Destroyed an Intellectual Diversity Initiative
“The extreme hostility of the faculty toward this project shows the desperate need for something serious along these lines. However, with the current administration at UT-Austin, nothing will be possible without far more direct state intervention.” ~ Richard Lowery
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Market Solutions to Ancient Sins
“Ferguson and Witcher make persuasive arguments in favor of the classical liberal narrative about black history, and they also provide valuable summaries of and introductions to the work of other important classical liberal and libertarian scholars on race.” ~ Jason Jewell
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More On Nancy MacLean’s Egregious ‘Scholarship’
“MacLean continues to tell fantastically false fables about prominent classical-liberal scholars, many of whom are now dead and, hence, unable to defend themselves from being falsely portrayed by MacLean as cartoonish villains.” ~ Donald J. Boudreaux
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Setting the Record Straight on “Setting the Record Straight on the Libertarian South African Economist W.H. Hutt and James M. Buchanan”
“MacLean et al. have in fact set nothing straight, and their argument, far from being ‘irrefutable,’ wrecks itself upon the rocks of at least one major citation error, selective use of documents, and willful misreadings of Hutt’s words devoid of their original context.” ~ Phillip W. Magness & Art Carden
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•
The Lineaments of the Ancient Constitution
“The American Founders recognized that, although they were separating from England, they were also extending an English past that had withstood trials and tribulations, establishing sound institutions that affirmed and protected prescriptive rights and liberties.” ~ Allen Mendenhall