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What Is Living and What Is Dead in Classical Liberalism

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This paper was presented at The Future of Freedom Foundations five-year anniversary conference in 1994. Introduction The momentous upheaval in Eastern Europe in 1989, followed by the complete disintegration of the USSR, did not usher in the end of history as claimed by overly-enthusiastic Western commentators such as Fukuyama (1992) in the first wave of euphoria over the collapse of Marxist-Leninist dogma. However, as James Buchanan (1991) noted, it did end a vision of socio-economic political reality based on collectivist-socialist ideas. It is now possible to analyze the complexities of social interaction among individuals without regard to the collectivist-socialist shadow that has been cast over such discussions for the better part of the twentieth century. It is especially important, in such circumstances, that those who place a high value on individual freedom do not become complacent about their cause. On the one hand, the collapse of the Soviet Empire has provided unequivocal evidence that socialism cannot create wealth and cannot tolerate ...

Hornberger’s Blog, December 2004

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Friday, December 31, 2004 In today’s FFF Email Update, we link to an interesting article in the drug-war section entitled “A Taste of the System” which details one of the perverse consequences of the “war on terrorism” and the “war on drugs.” John Perry Barlow, a lyricist for the Grateful Dead, checked his luggage for a flight. After being seated, the feds came onto the plane and ordered him off the plane, claiming that they had searched his luggage for bombs and, in the process, discovered a small quantity of drugs. They’ve now charged him with illegal drug possession. To Barlow’s credit, he’s fighting the feds on the legality of the search rather than perform the customary “Oh, I’m so sorry; please forgive me, let me rat on others for you” that the feds expect drug-war victims to feel and express. Here’s a Washington Post ...

The No-Fault No-Fly List: Washington’s Most Irresponsible Agency Strikes Again

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The Transportation Security Administration got another black eye recently when Sen. Ted Kennedy (D-Mass.) revealed that he had been blocked from flying five times because his name triggered an alarm on the feds’ No-Fly list. Kennedy’s staff had to make multiple calls to high-ranking federal officials before the attempted travel ban was lifted on the Senator-for-Life. One senior Bush administration official explained that the senator’s name was on the list because a suspected terrorist had used “T. Kennedy” as an alias. And the embarrassment was compounded when the feds ordered a United Airlines flight from London to land in Bangor, Maine, because of the presence aboard of rock singer Cat Stevens, known as Yusuf Islam since his religious conversion. His name apparently triggered an alert because the U.S. terrorist watch list contains the name “Youssouf Islam.” The former singer is now a highly respected peace activist; his efforts ...