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EconomicsFeaturedGovernment
America’s Fiscal History: From Liberty to Paternalism
by Richard Ebeling September 23, 2021America is at risk of a total societal transformation highlighted by trading individual liberty for social collectivization.
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Climate ChangeConstitutionEnvironment/EnergyGovernmentPolitics
Global Warming Threat Attempts to Remake Society
by Nancy Thorner May 24, 2021Underpinning and serving as a touchstone of the Democratic Party’s climate effort is the Green New Deal.
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ConstitutionGovernmentPoliticsRegulation
Private Charity versus the Political Grinches
by Richard Ebeling December 23, 2020This year, 2020, has been a hard and disturbing one for virtually all of us due to the coronavirus and, especially, the government’s heavy-handed shutdown and lockdown responses
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Climate ChangeConstitutionGovernmentLibertyPolitics
How would life without fossil fuels impact society?
by Ronald Stein November 9, 2020Before moving too quickly into the GND, anti-fossil fuel protesters should take the time to answer the question: How can we avoid the undisputable science that renewables can only generate intermittent electricity
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FeaturedGovernment
Society Is Not a Family, Government Is Not a Parent
by Richard Ebeling July 18, 2017Few things are as clear as the bankruptcy of the political “left.”
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For early progressives the state was the true embodiment of the social will, the thinking, acting entity of which individual people are only one part.
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EducationEnvironment/Energy
Will the War Against Parental Choice Ever End?
by Robert Holland June 28, 2016No matter how many courts have rejected their pleadings, enemies of school choice appear committed to a 100-year-long judicial war in quest of some ultimate edict that will keep American students forever captive in government schools.
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Health Care
American Docs Need to Learn From Royal College of Physicians
by Jeff Stier June 15, 2016England’s Royal College of Physicians (RCP) recommended on April 28th that doctors “promote the use of e-cigarettes, NRT and other non-tobacco nicotine products as widely as possible as a substitute for smoking in the UK.”
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EducationFeatured
Celebrate Education Choice During National Charter Schools Week
by Lennie Jarratt May 10, 2016The first week in May is National Charter Schools Week, a time to celebrate the advancements made in the charter school movement over the past 25 years. Because of the nation’s hundreds of new and developing charter schools, thousands of parents and their children now have the opportunity to enroll in a school that better meets children’s specific education needs.
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Budgets/TaxesFeatured
Review of F.H. Buckley’s The Way Back: Restoring the Promise of America
by David S. D'Amato May 6, 2016The United States has lapsed into aristocracy, the New Class — the politically connected “enemies of promise” — standing in the way of the free market reforms that could make America the home of social mobility once again. This is among the central theses of a thought-provoking and inspiring new book from George Mason University law professor F.H. Buckley, whose The Way Back challenges us, perhaps audaciously, to pursue socialist ends through capitalist means.
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Budgets/TaxesFeatured
Wilhelm Röpke: The Economist Who Stood Up To Hitler
by Richard Ebeling March 2, 2016Sometimes there are men of principle who live their values and not merely speak or write about them. People who stand up to political evil at their own risk, and then go on to say and do things that help to remake their country in the aftermath of war and destruction. One such individual was the German, free-market economist, Wilhelm Röpke.
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If governments truly believe that man’s production of carbon dioxide causes dangerous global warming, they would ban the use of motor cars, motor trucks, tractors, motor homes, motor bikes, motor mowers, motor launches and petrol-driven chain saws. These all pump out the two dreaded greenhouse gases – carbon dioxide and water vapour. Horses, bullocks, wagons, bicycles, scythes, row-boats and axes are the true-green tools – all were good enough for our pioneers.
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Featured
Individual Rights Must Be Preserved Without Interference From The Government
by Richard Ebeling February 2, 2016What is the role of government in society? This has been and remains the most fundamental question in all political discussions and debates. Its answer determines the nature of the social order and how people are expected and allowed to interact with one another – on the basis of either force or freedom.