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The Road to the Permanent Warfare State, Part 12

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Part 1 | Part 2 | Part 3 |Part 4 | Part 5 | Part 6 | Part 7 |Part 8 | Part 9 | Part 10 | Part 11 |Part 12 |Part 13 There has never been a just one, never an honorable one — on the part of the instigator of a war. — Mark Twain, The Mysterious Stranger War is a tried and true specific when a people’s moral values become stale and flat. — Robert Nisbet, The Present Age To restore liberty as well as fiscal sanity, the American warfare/welfare state must be dismantled. The pursuit of empire, both domestic and foreign, cannot be reconciled with the love of liberty. Empire is a pricey, often amoral, business. It is something that many Americans apparently want to know little about as long as the government “gives” them more welfare programs, even though it means the gradual ...

Open Societies and Spontaneous Orders

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Popper, Hayek and the Open Society by Calvin Hayes (London/New York: Routledge, 2009); 284 pages. Friedrich A. Hayek and Karl Popper were two of the most influential and internationally recognized critics of totalitarian collectivism in the 20th century. Hayek’s Road to Serfdom (1944) and Popper’s Open Society and Its Enemies (1945) helped change the intellectual climate at a time when it was presumed that various forms of socialism would soon completely triumph over limited government, free markets, and individual freedom. Both Hayek and Popper were Austrians by birth, were almost the same age, and graduated with doctoral degrees from the University of Vienna in the 1920s. But they never knew each other in the relatively small and interconnected intellectual circles of interwar Vienna. Hayek left Austria in 1931 for a teaching position at the London School of Economics, and heard about Popper only when his fellow Austrian economist Gottfried Haberler suggested in 1935 that he read Popper’s recently published book, The Logic ...

Economic Liberty Series

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The Future of Freedom Foundation, in conjunction with the students in the George Mason University Economics Society, is pleased to present our Economic Liberty Lecture Series. Every month, FFF provides a lecture on the principles of economic liberty to the students of George Mason University and the general public. For a schedule of future events, please see our upcoming events. Scroll down or click on a lecture title below to watch a specific lecture. Claudia R. Williamson: "The Trouble with Aid" - Monday, February 20, 2012 Charles K. Rowley: "Liberty and the State: A Virginia Political Economy Perspective" - Wednesday, November 2, 2011 David Friedman

Hornberger’s Blog, January 2012

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Tuesday, January 31, 2012 Just Ditch Medicare and Medicaid I just don’t get conservatives. They say they support individual freedom, economic liberty, free markets, limited government, and the Constitution. They also say they oppose socialism, interventionism, collectivism, and paternalism. They point out that such isms just don’t work. Okay, fine. Then why don’t conservatives call for the immediate repeal of Medicare and Medicaid? Why ...