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• The Mainspring of Human Progress
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  Henry Grady Weaver | Tuesday, August 14, 2018
  Fill out the form below to get your own free, downloadable copy of The Mainspring of Human Progress! The Author and the Book Henry Grady Weaver was born at Eatonton, Georgia, December 24, 1889. He received his B.S. from Georgia Tech in 1911, and held a series of jobs in various phases of the automobile […]
• The Man Versus the State
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  Herbert Spencer | Tuesday, April 17, 2018
  Fill out the form below to get your own copy of The Man Versus the State! INTRODUCTION. In 1851 Herbert Spencer published a treatise called Social Statics; or, The Conditions Essential to Human Happiness Specified. Among other specifications, this work established and made clear the fundamental principle that society should be organised on the basis […]
• The Man Versus the State
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  Herbert Spencer |

  In 1851 Herbert Spencer published a treatise called Social Statics; or, The Conditions Essential to Human Happiness Specified. Among other specifications, this work established and made clear the fundamental principle that society should be organised on the basis of voluntary coöperation, not on the basis of compulsory coöperation, or under the threat of it. In a word, it established the principle of individualism as against Statism—against the principle underlying all the collectivist doctrines which are everywhere dominant at the present time. It contemplated the reduction of State power over the individual to an absolute minimum, and the raising of social power to its maximum; as against the principle of Statism, which contemplates the precise opposite. Spencer maintained that the State’s interventions upon the individual should be confined to punishing those crimes against person or property which are recognised as such by what the Scots philosophers called “the common sense of mankind;”[1] enforcing the obligations of contract; and making justice costless and easily accessible. Beyond this the State should not go; it should put no further coercive restraint upon the individual. All that the State can do for the best interests of society—all it can do to promote a permanent and stable well-being of society—is by way of these purely negative interventions. Let it go beyond them and attempt the promotion of society’s well-being by positive coercive interventions upon the citizen, and whatever apparent and temporary social good may be effected will be greatly at the cost of real and permanent social good.

• Censorship Comes to Google
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  John Samples | Thursday, November 30, 2017

  Alphabet chief executive Eric Schmidt recently announced that Google will alter its search algorithm to “de-rank” results from Russia Today. The context and timing of Congressional hearings and the de-ranking of RT make a persuasive case for coercion. This is troubling because the American government, supposedly fully bound by the 1st Amendment, has resorted to bald threats in order to circumvent the rights-protections guaranteed to its citizens.

• My Surprising Career as an Amazon.com “Fake” Reviewer
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  Anonymous | Tuesday, October 24, 2017

  I think if Amazon wants to improve the quality of product pages, it should end its campaign against incentivized reviews, as it only serves to hurt established brands. Increased transparency could instead allow consumers to make their own judgments about whom to trust.

• The Spy in Your Pocket
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  Nicole Kardell FEE Contributor | Monday, July 20, 2015

  Will the market fill the demand for privacy, and will the government let it do so?

• This Is America?
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  James R. Otteson | Monday, July 1, 2002
  I have long had an uneasy relationship with airport security. Before September 11, I resisted the demand that I produce a government-issued ID, believing that it smacked too much of the “Papers, please” of the former Soviet Union that Hollywood movies used to mock and we free Americans used to laugh at. I also used […]
• The Relativity of Relativity
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  Miller Upton | Saturday, January 1, 1966
  Despite the appeal of relativity, there are certain absolutes and standards to be observed in the search for truth, believes the president of Beloit College.
• How To Be Happy Forever
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  Stanley Yankus | Sunday, April 1, 1962
  Some people seek happiness by way of “The Twist.” The author of this article has other ideas, developed in part since deciding to remove his family to Australia from Michigan in protest against such things as the government prescrib­ing how much wheat he could grow on his own land to feed to his own chickens. […]
• The Sources of Invention
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  John Jewkes | Tuesday, April 1, 1958
  The author is Professor of Economic Organization in the University of Oxford. This article is reprinted by permission from the January 1958 issue of  Lloyds Bank Review. It seems to be almost universally I assumed that the launching of the space satellites was made pos­sible only by employing vast teams of technicians working together in […]