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Below you'll find a list of all posts from September, 2008

Keeping Faith with Our Common Values

“On March 5, 2008, former Australian prime minister John Howard gave the Irving Kristol Lecture at AEI’s Annual Dinner. What follows …

The Evil that Walks Invisible

Reprinted with the kind permission of the author. Visit his web site here… Ben joined me for coffee recently and …

The Goal Is Freedom: Paternalist Nudges

Reprinted with the kind permission of the author, Mr. Sheldon Richman and the Foundation for Economic Education (FEE). Sheldon Richman …

How to survive in the age of the free-lunch economy

Reprinted with the kind permission of The Adam Smith Institute The libertarian science-fiction writer Robert Heinlein famously observed that “there …

There is all the difference in the world, however, between two kinds of assistance through government that seem superficially similar: first, 90 percent of us agreeing to impose taxes on ourselves in order to help the bottom 10 percent, and second, 80 percent voting to impose taxes on the top 10 percent to help the bottom 10 percent -- William Graham Sumner's famous example of B and C decided what D shall do for A. The first may be wise or unwise, an effective or ineffective way to help the disadvantaged -- but it is consistent with belief in both equality of opportunity and liberty. The second seeks equality of outcome and is entirely antithetical to liberty.