Those Revolutionary Books…
Posted in From the Archives on 13 October 2010
Stats: 785 views and 2 Comments For most of us there is usually a book or two that help shape our beliefs. They are books that have a revolutionary impact on our thinking. For many classical liberals/libertarians, as the popular saying goes, it usually begins with Ayn Rand. And Atlas Shrugged certainly deserves this reputation but ...
Posted in From the Archives on 13 October 2010
Stats: 785 views and 2 Comments For most of us there is usually a book or two that help shape our beliefs. They are books that have a revolutionary impact on our thinking. For many classical liberals/libertarians, as the popular saying goes, it usually begins with Ayn Rand. And Atlas Shrugged certainly deserves this reputation but ...
Letter From Hazlitt to Read February 18, 1982
Posted in Document on 13 October 2010
Stats: 306 views and No Comments Letter From Henry Hazlitt to Leonard E. Read on February 18, 1982. Hazlitt Thanks Read for putting an article about Mises's Socialism in the March Notes from FEE and then discusses the impact the book had on him.
Posted in Document on 13 October 2010
Stats: 306 views and No Comments Letter From Henry Hazlitt to Leonard E. Read on February 18, 1982. Hazlitt Thanks Read for putting an article about Mises's Socialism in the March Notes from FEE and then discusses the impact the book had on him.
FEE President Lawrence Reed on The Bob Harden Show
Posted in Audio, Media on 3 October 2010
Stats: 182 views and No Comments Lawrence Reed was a guest of The Bob Harden Show - 98.9 WGUF Naples where he talked about his latest column in The Freeman "Confessions of a Secret Marxist". Providing interesting insight on Karl Marx's life and socialism, Mr. Reed also shared with the audience his sympathy to Groucho ...
Posted in Audio, Media on 3 October 2010
Stats: 182 views and No Comments Lawrence Reed was a guest of The Bob Harden Show - 98.9 WGUF Naples where he talked about his latest column in The Freeman "Confessions of a Secret Marxist". Providing interesting insight on Karl Marx's life and socialism, Mr. Reed also shared with the audience his sympathy to Groucho ...
From Abilities to Poverty
Posted in From the Archives on 11 June 2010
Stats: 912 views and 8 Comments We have all heard the socialist phrase “From each according to his abilities, to each according to his needs.” Sadly, however, few people actually think through what it truly would mean in practice. In 1953, Leonard E. Read, in his “Victims of Social Leveling,” correctly showed it would mean suppressing ...
Posted in From the Archives on 11 June 2010
Stats: 912 views and 8 Comments We have all heard the socialist phrase “From each according to his abilities, to each according to his needs.” Sadly, however, few people actually think through what it truly would mean in practice. In 1953, Leonard E. Read, in his “Victims of Social Leveling,” correctly showed it would mean suppressing ...
Victims of Social Leveling by Leonard E. Read
Posted in Document on 11 June 2010
Stats: 574 views and 2 Comments Leonard E. Read discusses the flaws of "From each according to his abilities, to each according to his needs." In practice this idea, of social leveling, would harm everyone in the long run.
Posted in Document on 11 June 2010
Stats: 574 views and 2 Comments Leonard E. Read discusses the flaws of "From each according to his abilities, to each according to his needs." In practice this idea, of social leveling, would harm everyone in the long run.
Statistics: Friend of the Interventionist, Enemy of Liberty
Posted in From the Archives on 3 March 2010
Stats: 228 views and No Comments In the Clichés of Socialism number 57, Murray Rothbard makes the case against government statistics. Of course not all statistics are bad, but Rothbard argues that without government collected data significantly fewer statistics would be collected in a free society. For advocates of liberty, the problem, beyond the wasted costs of ...
Posted in From the Archives on 3 March 2010
Stats: 228 views and No Comments In the Clichés of Socialism number 57, Murray Rothbard makes the case against government statistics. Of course not all statistics are bad, but Rothbard argues that without government collected data significantly fewer statistics would be collected in a free society. For advocates of liberty, the problem, beyond the wasted costs of ...
Intellectuals and Socialism
Posted in Audio, Media, Timeless Truth on 19 January 2010
Stats: 793 views and 1 Comment This lecture, in which Hayek discusses "Intellectuals and Socialism" was recorded March 23, 1962. Part 1 Part 2
Posted in Audio, Media, Timeless Truth on 19 January 2010
Stats: 793 views and 1 Comment This lecture, in which Hayek discusses "Intellectuals and Socialism" was recorded March 23, 1962. Part 1 Part 2
FEE Alum Sets ACS Straight on Health Care
Posted in News on 9 December 2009
Stats: 56 views and 3 Comments FEE seminar alum Douglas Mackenzie is speaking up to his fellow surgeons in a letter to the chairman of the board of regents of the American College of Surgeons. "The debate over health care in this country has brought in many players with skin in the game. Your coalition of surgical organizations is ...
Posted in News on 9 December 2009
Stats: 56 views and 3 Comments FEE seminar alum Douglas Mackenzie is speaking up to his fellow surgeons in a letter to the chairman of the board of regents of the American College of Surgeons. "The debate over health care in this country has brought in many players with skin in the game. Your coalition of surgical organizations is ...
Frustrating Michael Moore
Posted in The Goal Is Freedom on 16 October 2009
Stats: 982 views and 29 Comments If Michael Moore would study a little political economy he might turn into a potent champion of individual liberty. As we see in Moore's new movie, Capitalism: A Love Story, Moore is offended by some truly offensive things: banks engaging in wild speculation without concern for the risk, taxpayer bailouts ...
Posted in The Goal Is Freedom on 16 October 2009
Stats: 982 views and 29 Comments If Michael Moore would study a little political economy he might turn into a potent champion of individual liberty. As we see in Moore's new movie, Capitalism: A Love Story, Moore is offended by some truly offensive things: banks engaging in wild speculation without concern for the risk, taxpayer bailouts ...
From 1944 to Nineteen Eighty-Four
Posted in The Goal Is Freedom on 4 September 2009
Stats: 472 views and 12 Comments I'm inclined to think of George Orwell and F. A. Hayek at the same time. Both showed great courage in writing the truth, undaunted by the consequences awaiting them. Both valued freedom, though they understood it differently. Orwell, a man of the "left," could not remain silent in the face ...
Posted in The Goal Is Freedom on 4 September 2009
Stats: 472 views and 12 Comments I'm inclined to think of George Orwell and F. A. Hayek at the same time. Both showed great courage in writing the truth, undaunted by the consequences awaiting them. Both valued freedom, though they understood it differently. Orwell, a man of the "left," could not remain silent in the face ...
