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Budgets/TaxesHealth Care
Why It’s So Difficult to Reform Entitlement Programs: Friedrich Hayek and the Libertarian Perspective
by Barry Poulson and John Merrifield October 12, 2017Republicans in Congress appear to be at an impasse in their efforts to reform health care programs.
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Education
Campus Collectivism and the Counter-Revolution Against Liberty
by Richard Ebeling April 25, 2017Much has been rightly said about recent attacks on conservative, libertarian, and other non-leftist speakers on college and university campuses around the country.
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Liberty
Heartland Institute Hosts Tribute to Illinois Conservative Patriot Elizabeth A. Clarke
by Nancy Thorner September 2, 2016Elizabeth and Ed Clarke were incredibly brave and willing to sacrifice. They were courageous: Speaking out against communism and socialism in the 1960s and 1970s was not popular.
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Last week, Federal Reserve Board Chairman Janet Yellen was awarded the Radcliffe Medal at Harvard’s Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study. At a lunch in Yellen’s honor, Lizabeth Cohen, dean of the institute, praised the Fed chair’s “steadfast commitment to robust growth” and the way the she “steers our economy,” guided by the philosophy of her Yale mentor, Keynesian economist James Tobin.
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Budgets/TaxesEconomicsEducationFeaturedHealth CareLibertyPoliticsSpeaker Series
DONT MISS THIS: Michelle Malkin, Joe Walsh Headlining Heartland’s Benefit Dinner Sept. 12
by Jim Lakely August 10, 2014The Heartland Institute is proud to announce Michelle Malkin as the keynote speaker at our 30th Anniversary Benefit on September 12, 2014. Save the date — and reserve your table…
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EconomicsFeaturedPoliticsSpeaker Series
Michelle Malkin to Headline Heartland’s Benefit Dinner
by Jim Lakely February 5, 2014The Heartland Institute is proud to announce Michelle Malkin as the keynote speaker at our 30th Anniversary Benefit on September 12, 2014. SAVE THE DATE!
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With all the talk of America’s forgotten middle class, it’s worth taking time as we begin a new year to consider that the country’s seeming obsession with wealth and inequality may instead be turning the U. S. into a country with only two classes: the governed and the governing.
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FeaturedLibertyPoliticsRandom
Americans Don’t Trust The Government, And That Could Be Great For America
by Benjamin Domenech December 5, 2013Healthy skepticism is healthy. Factionalism isn’t.
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[First posted at Ricochet.] My June 15 post clearly struck a nerve with several of you, both libertarian and non-libertarian. I’d like to engage in a bit of follow-up to clarify…
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[Editor’s note: Originally posted at Ricochet.com.] One of the reasons that American libertarians as a political movement never amount to anything is that they can be incredibly intolerant people. This…
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EconomicsLibertyPolitics
George Will on ‘The Declaration of Independents’
by Jim Lakely July 30, 2011The debt ceiling crisis is rightly sucking almost all of the oxygen in the arena of public debate. So it’s remarkable that The Washington Post’s George Will dedicated his Friday…
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EconomicsLibertyPolitics
The Trouble with The New Yorker: A Debate About Libertarians
by Jim Lakely January 30, 2011Heartland Institute friend Darren Nelson (an Aussie living in Wisconsin) shares with us an interesting post from the libertarian Mises Institute about a now-infamous December piece in New York magazine…