We find ourselves trying to navigate the surging rapids downstream from the confluence of three powerful currents. The first is the great success of liberal institutions in creating prosperity. Dierdre […]
Tag: Classical Liberalism
Will 2024 Be the Ultimate Expressive Voting Election?
Do you remember how stridently democracy has been emphasized in recent elections? Voter ID laws were condemned as undermining democracy. Citizens (at least those expected to vote the “right” way) […]
Downsizing the Administrative State
The recent Supreme Court decision, West Virginia v. EPA, which limits the EPA’s ability to define its own parameters, revitalized debate over how much discretion bureaucracies have to develop and […]
The Calling of Classical Liberal Researchers: Remind Your Neighbor
Classical liberal researchers notice paradoxes and dilemmas in their work, and those dilemmas shape their sense of calling. Here I remark on one dilemma. I draw on the Christian apologist […]
Liberalism Needs No Enemies
In his instructive political fable, The Awakening of Jennifer Van Arsdale, George Leef writes, “Liberalism is the one philosophy that requires no enemies… It minimizes conflict and calls upon people […]
This is Why We Can’t Have Nice Things: Directionalists vs. Destinationists
In my first essay for AIER, back in July, 2018, I wrote: I’m a ‘directional’ libertarian. That means that if a proposed new policy or reform of an existing policy […]
Reimagining Fusionism
Amidst the on-going differences that presently divide the American right, about matters ranging from economic policy to the proper understanding of the US Constitution, one word has been cited with […]
Breaking Free From Political Polarization With Classical Liberalism (Video)
Progressives are ascendant in the ongoing culture wars, while conservatives fight to recover lost ground. But do these opposing camps have more in common than they care to admit? And […]
Garet Garrett, the Great
It’s time for liberty lovers to (re)acquaint themselves with Garet Garrett, a prolific voice of the Old Right. It’s not that everything the largely homeschooled farm boy wrote was right […]
On the Primacy of the Consumer-Welfare Standard
Ascendant today among antitrust scholars and enforcers are the so-called “neo-Brandeisians.” Named after progressive Associate Supreme Court Justice Louis Brandeis, the neo-Brandeisians’ chief goal with respect to antitrust is to […]