James A. Woehlke

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Guilt, Blame, and Politics by Allan Levite

Does a Wealthy Background Breed Radical Leftists?

MARCH 01, 2000 by JAMES A. WOEHLKE

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Those Dirty Rotten Taxes: Tax Revolts that Built America by Charles Adams

A Strong Case for Abandoning Intrusive Direct Taxation

FEBRUARY 01, 1999 by JAMES A. WOEHLKE, NICOLAUS WOEHLKE

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Pick a Better Country by Ken Hamblin

Each of Us Must Decide if We Will Be Winners or Losers

DECEMBER 01, 1997 by JAMES A. WOEHLKE

The story is told that Ludwig von Mises was once asked, "Do you mean to say that the government should have done nothing during the Great Depression?" Mises responded, "I mean to say it should have started doing nothing long before that." I hope the story is not apocryphal, because it perfectly sums up the government's proper role in managing the economy: none.

Book Review

The Rights Retained by the People: The History and Meaning of the Ninth Amendment

OCTOBER 01, 1992 by JAMES A. WOEHLKE

This book should open the door to a serious, intellectually sound approach to the Constitutional protection of human rights.

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May 2013

From natural systems to human systems, we start to notice patterns in nature that are products of good flow. Adrian Bejan discusses this crucial insight--and how it makes freedom even more needful--in this month's interview. Zachary Caceres looks at what emergence can tell us about the universe, the market, the heart, and the sacred; Mike Reid recounts the tragedies produced when the State tries to impose its order on people who have already developed their own; Gary Galles channels Leonard Read: the State is a clenched fist, he says, so it cannot create; Brad Taylor says democracy might just be another imposed order in some situations; Karl Borden wonders whether an individual's right to be left alone can be part of the order of things; and much, much more.Download Free PDF

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