Topic: Classical Liberalism

The Poverty of Slavery: How Unfree Labor Pollutes the Economy

Citizens and Statesmen: An Annual Review of Political Theory and Political Life, Volume II

Liberalism Needs No Enemies

“Minds can be creative or destructive. Be right-minded. Stop justifying grievances. Embrace liberalism. Value voluntary cooperation; as you help others flourish, you will flourish.” ~ Barry Brownstein

The Calling of Classical Liberal Researchers: Remind Your Neighbor

“Classical liberals who lead research endeavors need to persuade not only fellow researchers, but the audience of the research, including the anti-liberal minefield of academia.” ~ Daniel B. Klein

This is Why We Can’t Have Nice Things: Directionalists vs. Destinationists

“Being proud of the purity of your positions by defining Friedman, Stigler (and Munger, let’s face it) as ‘reds’ is a recipe for well-deserved irrelevance in a system governed by numerical majorities.” ~ Michael C. Munger

Breaking Free From Political Polarization With Classical Liberalism (Video)

“Bruce Pardy, a professor of law and executive director of Rights Probe, a think tank focused on law and liberty, joins Kate Wand to discuss how classical liberalism can repair society from its current polarized state.” ~ AIER

Reimagining Fusionism

“The primary significance for any revitalization of fusionism in our time may well be that of reminding classical liberals and conservatives what is at stake by pointing to principles that many in both camps consider to be important truths that matter if America’s experiment in ordered liberty is to endure.” ~ Samuel Gregg

Garet Garrett, the Great

“We could easily consider his first name an anagram for what his stance against the New Deal was, g-r-e-a-t, while also recognizing that some of his views resemble a dusty old attic.” ~ Robert E. Wright

Obstacles to Freedom Can Be the Way to Freedom

“If we set our purpose to learn from obstacles, today, there is no better opportunity to choose freedom over violence. Thankfully, Read, Aurelius, and Emerson point the way; the more significant the obstacles, the greater the potential change.” ~ Barry Brownstein

On the Primacy of the Consumer-Welfare Standard

“Production is a means; consumption is the end. The consumer-welfare standard is nothing more, nor less, than an understanding and acceptance of this fundamental economic reality.” ~ Donald J. Boudreaux

How Individuals Enable Tyranny

“Mill, Havel, and Kundera all point us to a terrible truth: our moral weakness, desire to evade responsibility, and illusion that the majority makes right have led us down the slippery slope of forfeiting our freedom.” ~ Barry Brownstein

Conquistadors and Indian Rights

“Though this counters today’s understanding of colonialism generally, and the conquest in particular, the fact is that Spanish treatment of Indians in the Americas was not the monolithically brutal affair it is so often portrayed to be.” ~ Paul Schwennesen