Good Afternoon.

The conservative Jonathan Sanford says that capitalism is ruining liberal arts education. But Sanford seems unaware that liberal arts colleges are a product of the private sector, and it was the government takeover in the twentieth century that is destroying the liberal arts. Yet again, capitalism—what the critics now call “neoliberalism”—gets blamed for what the state did.

One thing modern government-funded colleges definitely don’t teach is economic self-reliance. James Bovard today takes a look at how food stamps and federal war make everyone dependent on the state. 

Ryan McMaken
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