History
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Maybe You Are an Individualist Too
Until we can reclaim the broad term of liberalism — and the assertion that society contains within itself the capacity of self-management — individualism will do just fine.
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Meritocracy Is a Bad Idea
“The idea of meritocracy requires a totalitarian state if you are going to take it seriously.” ~ Stephen Davies
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The Classical Liberal Ideal of Equality
It meant that there was not a clear or distinct governing class, much less a hereditary one.
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The Real Spirit of the Declaration of Independence
The philosophical underpinnings of the Declaration of Independence, therefore, proclaim a self-evident truth of individual liberty and right to honestly acquired property that all men of unbiased reasoning could and should agree with and see as essential to a free, just, and prosperous society.
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Bastiat’s Birthday is a Great Day to Read “The Law”
The state is the one institution in society that is not legally bound to adhere to the rules that it can legally impose, via the threat of violence, on everyone else within its jurisdiction.
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Let’s Revive the Term Individualism
If you do not want to surrender the term “liberal” to soft collectivism, then speak of individualist liberalism rather than classical liberalism.
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Austrian Economics on the 45th Anniversary of Its Rebirth
This June marks the 45th anniversary of the revival of the Austrian School of Economics. During the week of June 15-22, 1974, the Institute for Humane Studies brought together about 50 people in South Royalton, Vermont to listen to a series of lectures by three of the leading figures of the, then, existing remnant of…
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Why Neo-liberalism Is Really Neo-socialism
When Professor Stiglitz says that his neo-socialism is the only alternative to the failed neo-liberalism of our time, he is merely saying: let me impose upon you the economic planning schemes that I consider the good, fair, and just ones for you, in place of those other command-economy coercers who want to take you down “wrong”…
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The Fairytale of Hegemonic Neoliberalism
Far from fighting to supplant a prevailing ideology for our age, “neoliberalism’s” critics appear to be battling a phantasm of their own imagining.
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Why Jordan Peterson Teared Up During His Budapest Lecture
This night he became a preacher of goodness, of civility, of moral strength in the face of struggle. The poetry of it all, and the promise that goodness and decency can prevail, was manifest in the crowds and the city right here, this night, in Budapest. It combined to inspire him to find the fullness…
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Maybe You Are an Individualist Too
Until we can reclaim the broad term of liberalism — and the assertion that society contains within itself the capacity of self-management — individualism will do just fine.
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•
Meritocracy Is a Bad Idea
“The idea of meritocracy requires a totalitarian state if you are going to take it seriously.” ~ Stephen Davies
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•
The Classical Liberal Ideal of Equality
It meant that there was not a clear or distinct governing class, much less a hereditary one.
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•
The Real Spirit of the Declaration of Independence
The philosophical underpinnings of the Declaration of Independence, therefore, proclaim a self-evident truth of individual liberty and right to honestly acquired property that all men of unbiased reasoning could and should agree with and see as essential to a free, just, and prosperous society.
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•
Bastiat’s Birthday is a Great Day to Read “The Law”
The state is the one institution in society that is not legally bound to adhere to the rules that it can legally impose, via the threat of violence, on everyone else within its jurisdiction.
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•
Let’s Revive the Term Individualism
If you do not want to surrender the term “liberal” to soft collectivism, then speak of individualist liberalism rather than classical liberalism.
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•
Austrian Economics on the 45th Anniversary of Its Rebirth
This June marks the 45th anniversary of the revival of the Austrian School of Economics. During the week of June 15-22, 1974, the Institute for Humane Studies brought together about 50 people in South Royalton, Vermont to listen to a series of lectures by three of the leading figures of the, then, existing remnant of…
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Why Neo-liberalism Is Really Neo-socialism
When Professor Stiglitz says that his neo-socialism is the only alternative to the failed neo-liberalism of our time, he is merely saying: let me impose upon you the economic planning schemes that I consider the good, fair, and just ones for you, in place of those other command-economy coercers who want to take you down “wrong”…
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•
The Fairytale of Hegemonic Neoliberalism
Far from fighting to supplant a prevailing ideology for our age, “neoliberalism’s” critics appear to be battling a phantasm of their own imagining.
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•
Why Jordan Peterson Teared Up During His Budapest Lecture
This night he became a preacher of goodness, of civility, of moral strength in the face of struggle. The poetry of it all, and the promise that goodness and decency can prevail, was manifest in the crowds and the city right here, this night, in Budapest. It combined to inspire him to find the fullness…