The worst of this ever growing cancer of Statism is its moral effect. The country is rich enough to stand its frightful economic wastage for a long time yet, and still prosper, but it is already so poverty-stricken in its moral resources that the present drain will quickly run them out.
–Albert Jay Nock, Journal of Forgotten Days [1934]
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April 29, 2020 No One Has a Right to an Education
In an editorial, the Los Angeles Times is celebrating a decision of the Sixth Circuit Court of Appeals holding that a good education is a constitutional right and, therefore, that states have a legal duty to provide it to children. The court’s decision and the Times’ celebration of it only goes to show how America’s welfare-state way of life has ...
Herbert Spencer on Equal Liberty and the Free Society
by Richard M. Ebeling
Social, political and economic crises, including those connected with a viral pandemic, absorb so much of our attention that it is easy to miss ...
Conspiracies, Corona, and the Hounds of Adam Smith
by John McGinnis
Thomas Jefferson famously wrote, "The natural progress of things is for liberty to yield, and government to gain ground." I think Rahm Emanuel’s corollary ...
