Freedom Daily Archive

Rule of Law versus Unlimited Rule

by James Bovard February 1, 2003

President Bush is fond of reminding Americans of his devotion to the rule of law. On May 3, 2002, he told an audience that he “always” lectures foreign leaders “about the need for there to be rule of law ... and our country is a shining example of that.” Unfortunately, the current U.S. “rule ...

Ending the Anachronistic Korean Commitment, Part 1

by Doug Bandow February 1, 2003

Part 1 | Part 2 The United States has defended South Korea (the Republic of Korea, or ROK) for 50 years. But newly elected ROK President Roh Moo-hyun suggests that his nation might “mediate” in any war between America and North Korea (the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea, or DPRK). Talk about one-way alliances! The presence of 37,000 troops in ...

Book Review: Creative Destruction

by Richard M. Ebeling February 1, 2003

Creative Destruction: How Globalization Is Changing the World’s Culture by Tyler Cowen (Princeton, N.J.: Princeton University Press, 2002); 179 pages; $24.95. Most people can understand the common-sense logic and benefits from division of labor and international trade. After all, most people understand that there are some things that they are not able to provide for themselves, so they either buy them ...

Economic Liberty and the Constitution, Part 8

by Jacob G. Hornberger January 1, 2003

Part 1 | Part 2 | Part 3 | Part 4 | Part 5 | Part 6 | Part 7 | Part 8 | Part 9 | Part 10 | Part 11 | Part 12 |  Table of Contents The tremendous legal battle between the advocates of economic ...

In Pursuit of Sustainable Development: Political Planning versus the Free Market

by Richard M. Ebeling January 1, 2003

From August 26 to September 4, 2002, the United Nations sponsored a World Summit on Sustainable Development in Johannesburg, South Africa. More than 100 heads of state and 60,000 delegates worked on an agenda for improving the health and well-being of tens of millions of people living in poverty around the ...

Arrogance Is Humility

by Sheldon Richman January 1, 2003

Taking a step back from all the particulars, the real lesson of September 11 is that for more than 50 years, the U.S. government has put the American people in harm’s way by its heavy-handed intervention in the bitter disputes throughout the Middle East. Then, despite the hundreds of billions of dollars spent each year on “national security” and ...

Foreign Dissent on Bush’s Imperial Ambitions

by James Bovard January 1, 2003

The Bush administration was outraged this past summer when German chancellor Gerhard Schroeder starkly declared that he would not support Bush’s war with Iraq. The resulting transatlantic brouhaha provides insights into political developments and delusions in both the United States and Germany. Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld huffed that the German campaign had been “unhelpful” ...

Hawks and the Free Market

by Bart Frazier January 1, 2003

Rosalie Barrow Edge should be considered a hero to libertarians and conservationists alike. In 1933, she founded Hawk Mountain Sanctuary in Kempton, Pennsylvania. At a time in our country's history when the economy was a shambles and socialism was hip, Edge managed to establish the first refuge for hawks in the world without the aid of government. In the 1920s ...

Guns and Privacy

by Scott McPherson January 1, 2003

Ask a member of the mainstream political Left whether he would be willing to have a camera installed in his house by the government with the explicit purpose of monitoring his activities for any potential wrongdoing. Like any self-respecting human being, he would very likely recoil in disgust against so blatant a violation of his privacy. Next, assure him that, ...

Socialism Lives in Public Schools

by Thomas L. Johnson January 1, 2003

A piece entitled “Education is not just another product in the market economy,” by Bob Chase, president of the National Education Association, is one of the clearest expressions of socialism and collectivism that one could ever encounter. His article also contains both errors and omissions. He begins with a significant error. Chase claims that in the 19th century when people ...

Book Review: Misguided Virtue

by Richard M. Ebeling January 1, 2003

Misguided Virtue: False Notions of Corporate Social Responsibility by David Henderson (London: Institute of Economic Affairs, 2002); 169 pages; $19.95. In spite of the end of Sovietstyle communism, the introduction of more market-oriented policies in many previously socialist societies, and the further integration of many of the world’s economic activities through the process of globalization, the ideology and policies of anti-capitalism ...

Economic Liberty and the Constitution, Part 7

by Jacob G. Hornberger December 1, 2002

Part 1 | Part 2 | Part 3 | Part 4 | Part 5 | Part 6 | Part 7 | Part 8 | Part 9 | Part 10 | Part 11 | Part 12 |  Table of Contents In 1895 the New York legislature enacted a law ...