Liberty versus Social Engineering
Posted in The Goal Is Freedom on 9 October 2009
Stats: 16 views and 6 Comments So David Brooks, the New York Times' resident conservative intellectual, must think he's a pretty clever fellow. In trying to characterize "the choices we face on issue after issue," he presumes to enlist the aid of philosophers Jeremy Bentham (1748-1832) and David Hume (1711-1776). Considering that Bentham ...
Posted in The Goal Is Freedom on 9 October 2009
Stats: 16 views and 6 Comments So David Brooks, the New York Times' resident conservative intellectual, must think he's a pretty clever fellow. In trying to characterize "the choices we face on issue after issue," he presumes to enlist the aid of philosophers Jeremy Bentham (1748-1832) and David Hume (1711-1776). Considering that Bentham ...
Monsieur Bastiat, Call Your Office
Posted in The Goal Is Freedom on 18 September 2009
Stats: 15 views and 8 Comments Tomorrow I'll lecture at the Liberty Weekend Dedicated to Frédéric Bastiat, sponsored by the Polish-American Foundation for Economic Research and Education (PAFERE) in Warsaw. Preparing for my visit, I reread Bastiat's great book The Law (online in PDF format here and for sale here). Oh ...
Posted in The Goal Is Freedom on 18 September 2009
Stats: 15 views and 8 Comments Tomorrow I'll lecture at the Liberty Weekend Dedicated to Frédéric Bastiat, sponsored by the Polish-American Foundation for Economic Research and Education (PAFERE) in Warsaw. Preparing for my visit, I reread Bastiat's great book The Law (online in PDF format here and for sale here). Oh ...
