Freeman

July/August 2005

Volume 55, 2005

FEATURES

No Buts about Freedom

No Compromise Is Possible Between Freedom and Coercion

JULY 01, 2005 by RICHARD EBELING

Richard M. EbelingBack in the early 1970s, the late Leonard E. Read, founder and first president of FEE, wrote a short piece in The Freeman called Sinking in a Sea of Buts. He said it was not uncommon or someone to say to him,I agree with you in principle, but . . . The but invariably referred to some exception from the principle of freedom in the form of a desired government intervention. The problem, Read pointed out, is that when everyones exceptions to freedom are added up, well, freedom ends up being sunk by all the buts.

Pharmacists and Freedom

Individual Freedom and Private Property Are Indispensable for Resolving Disputes

JULY 01, 2005 by SHELDON RICHMAN

The Persistent Influence of Bad Ideas

How J. A. Hobson's Ideas about Imperialism Became Common Wisdom

JULY 01, 2005 by STEPHEN DAVIES

Vorkuta to Perm: Russia's Concentration-Camp Museums and My Father's Story

Teaching Future Generations about Government Terror and Enslavement in the Soviet Union

JULY 01, 2005 by JON BASIL UTLEY

Postal Monopoly: Playing by Different Rules

Government Monopolies Don't Face Competition

JULY 01, 2005 by ROBERT CARREIRA

Choice Is Too Burdensome?

A Coercive Pyramid Scheme Can't Be Morally Preferable

JULY 01, 2005 by AEON SKOBLE

To Own or Be Owned: That Is the Question

Ownership Is Control

JULY 01, 2005 by LAWRENCE W. REED

Idiots, Infants and the Insane: Mental Illness and Legal Incompetence

Psychiatrists Never Know if a Patient Is Competent

JULY 01, 2005 by THOMAS S. SZASZ

Who Hates Wal-Mart and Why?

Competitors Turn to Politicians to Hamstring Wal-Mart

JULY 01, 2005 by RUSSELL ROBERTS

Why Freedom Matters

Liberty Leads to Prosperity

JULY 01, 2005 by JAMES A. DORN
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