Topic: Authoritarianism

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The Case for a Coercive Green New Deal?

– August 6, 2019

The founder of The Nation magazine would have completely rejected the Green New Deal as a socialist and illiberal disaster. 

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Authoritarianism Issue

– June 17, 2019

The Harwood Economic Review, Spring 2019

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The Fairytale of Hegemonic Neoliberalism

– June 5, 2019

Far from fighting to supplant a prevailing ideology for our age, “neoliberalism’s” critics appear to be battling a phantasm of their own imagining.

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No Complex Society Can Be Socialist

– February 6, 2019

“Tonight,” Trump said, “we renew our resolve that America will never be a socialist country.” Indeed no complex society can be.

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The Dangers of Totalitarian Planning, Past and Present

– July 31, 2018

All forms of government intervention — taxation and regulation — within a market economy are forms of government planning.

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Your Freedom and Rights are Highly Conditional, Says Court

– June 7, 2018

Yes, the court decided the right way, but narrowly and not in a way that should calm the worries of anyone who believes in basic freedoms.

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Cuban Exile Sues Communist Regime for Expropriating Her Life

– May 10, 2018

“Anything that our eyes could see, that our noses could smell, that our mouthes could taste, and that our ears could hear had to fit the [communist] ideological framework. Quite literally, the state expropriated my body.”

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President Trump’s First Year Included Setbacks for Liberty

– January 3, 2018

President Trump has enacted some pro-market policies, but on the whole sets back the cause of liberty.

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