George Leef gave the fifth talk in our webinar “Restoring Our Civil Liberties.” After giving an overview of civil liberties in the U.S., George tells us where we are and where we are going.
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If “market fundamentalism” were a serious phenomenon, you would think the authors could give some clear examples of it — as they do for fundamentalist opponents of economic freedom. (There are a ...
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Zealots who want to force others to conform to their beliefs often exhibit a fundamentalist mindset. That is to say, they are utterly certain of the rectitude of their beliefs on the basis of ...
Minimum-wage laws are again in the news, as Joe Biden and his political allies in Congress seek to push the national minimum from its current level of $7.25 per hour up to $15 per hour. Some politicians, Sen. Bernie ...
Liberty in Peril: Democracy and Power in American History
by Randall G. Holcombe, Independent Institute, 2019, 245 pages.
I finished reading Prof. Randall Holcombe’s book Liberty in Peril during the 2020 election. I have yet to hear any ...
Capitalism in America: An Economic History of the United States by Alan Greenspan and Adrian Wooldridge (Penguin Press, 2018); 496 pages.
Almost everyone knows Alan Greenspan as the long-serving chairman of the Federal Reserve System. What ...
There are a few issues where Americans on both sides of our political divide are in agreement and one of them is the wrongfulness of civil asset-forfeiture laws. Under those laws (which exist at federal, state, and local levels), ...
Freedom Frauds: Hard Lessons in American Liberty by James Bovard (Future of Freedom, 2017), 184 pages.
James Bovard has been a thorn in the side of the statists for decades. His books and columns have exposed the ...
The Case against Education: Why the Education System Is a Waste of Time and Money by Bryan Caplan (Princeton University Press, 2018, 395 pages).
Almost every book on education policy (and I have read a great many ...
Economism: Bad Economics and the Rise of Inequality by James Kwak (Pantheon Books, 2017; 237 pages)
There is a nasty genre of writing: books and articles that seek to build the case for socialism and interventionist government policies by smearing ...
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