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• Unemployment and Liberty
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  Benjamin Zycher | Wednesday, July 1, 1992

  Some unemployment must be seen as an adjunct of human freedom.

• Saying Yes
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  Robert Zimmerman | Monday, June 1, 1992
  We can choose to build a society where creativity, wealth, and profit are directly linked with a person’s actions, and as individuals we can choose to say “yes,” to work well and responsibly.
• Illiberal Education Cant Be Cured With Illiberalism
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  John-Peter A. Pham | Monday, July 1, 1991
  Mr. Pham is former editor-in-chief of Campus, America’s largest student newspaper, and co-editor of the forth coming book, The State of the Campus Report, from the Intercollegiate Studies Institute. I. Crisis in Academia When Allan Bloom published his 1987 critique of American higher education, The Closing of the American Mind, he ignited a fire-storm of […]
• Perestroikas Missing Ingredient
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  E.C. Pasour | Friday, June 1, 1990
  6.   Francis X. Clines, “Soviets Try Shift to Ease Economic Ills,” Raleigh News and Observer, December 14,1989. 7.   For a discussion of these issues see E. C. Pasour, Jr., “Benevolence and the Market,” Modern Age 24 (Spring 1980), pp. 168-78. 5.   Mikhail Gorbachev, Perestroika (New York: Harper and Row, 1987), p. 22. […]
• Shipwreck Legislation: Legality vs. Morality
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  Gary Gentile | Thursday, June 1, 1989
  Gary Gentile, a professional diver, writer, lecturer, and photographer, is the author of several books, including Advanced Wreck Diving Guide and Shipwrecks of New Jersey. Law is a reflection of society’s code of morality. It is universally agreed among the cultures of man that murder, rape, and other crimes of assault need be dealt with […]
• The Job Abacus: No Guide to Public Policy
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  T. Norman Van Cott James E. McClure | Friday, April 1, 1988
  Professors McClure and Van Cott teach in the Department of Economics at Ball State University, Muncie, Indiana. Media economic “experts” typically gauge economic events by counting jobs. Regardless of the issue, they measure the desirability of policies and outcomes in terms of the jobs that are allegedly created or destroyed. To the “experts,” a never-ending […]
• The New Socialism
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  John K. Williams | Monday, February 1, 1988
  The Reverend Dr. Williams is a noted speaker and author based in North Melbourne, Australia. Flive years ago my native country of Australia elected a socialist government. A perusal, however, of legislative measures taken by that government leads one to ask precisely what the label “socialist” today means, at least in Australia. The socialist government […]
• Invasive Government and the Destruction of Certainty
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  Ridgway K. Foley Jr. | Friday, January 1, 1988
        (2) Myriad individual actors inhabiting that universe, exhibiting these traits, among others:       (a) Incomplete knowledge       (b) Variable knowledge among members of the species       (c) Positive and sinister motives       (d) Inability to function in a random environment       (e) […]
• The Ethics of Entitlement
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  Hans F. Sennholz | Wednesday, April 1, 1987
  Entitlement programs—government taking income and wealth from some citizens and transferring it to others—are a fairly recent development. The U.S. government assumed the task only two generations ago when Congress introduced progressive taxation and, soon thereafter, launched systems of old age insurance and unemployment compensation. Since then, social pressure, sustained by strong moral emotion, has caused all administrations to pursue the ideals of a more equal distribution of wealth.
• Cyclical Unemployment
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  Hans F. Sennholz | Tuesday, April 1, 1986
  Dr. Sennholz heads the Department of Economies at Grove City College in Pennsylvania. He is a noted writer and lecturer on economic, political, and monetary affairs. His most recent book is Money and Freedom. In the final analysis, government is solely responsible for the business cycle and the unemployment that results. Employment is an essential […]