Editor’s Pick. An interview by the Libertas Institute. Libertas Institute: Please tell us who you are and what you do. DeAnne Staheli: My name is DeAnne Staheli and I’m the director of the Doctors’ Volunteer Clinic of St. George. LI: How did your clinic get started? DS: In 1999, Dr. Doxey was president of the…
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Just Market Exchanges
Editor’s Pick. Written by Neera Badhwar. Aristotle defines a voluntary act as one that has its cause in the agent rather than an external force, and that is done in knowledge of the relevant particulars. This is entirely commonsensical. Everyone would agree that in being blown away by the twister, Dorothy leaves Kansas involuntarily, and…
Economics, Not Engineering
Editor’s Pick. Written by Sandy Ikeda. Let’s say we lived in the kind of world in which the government could eliminate some well-recognized social problem, say violent crime, by simply passing a law. Although you may like that particular outcome, the question is, would you want to live in such a world? While some might…
Education is Not the Same as Schooling
Editor’s Pick. Video by LearnLiberty.org.
Children of the Collective: The State’s Attack on Individuality
Editor’s Pick. Written by Connor Boyack. An independent thinker is an incredible threat to the state. For this reason, statists throughout history have attempted, through propaganda and brute force, to shape and subdue society by controlling the education of the rising generation. As Hitler himself said, “He alone who owns the youth, gains the future.”…
Enabling Children To Express All Of Their Emotions
Editor’s Pick. Written by Sam Vickery. You know that feeling when you’re standing in the middle of the supermarket and your child picks that exact moment to have an almighty meltdown? Or when you have people visiting and your child decides that they don’t want to play with the visiting children, and a tussle breaks…
The Rich – Poor Gap
Editor’s Pick. Written by Slappy Jones II. Every now and then I come across an article or hear someone on the radio talking about the gap between the rich and the poor getting larger. They’ll typically throw out a stat saying something like “The economy grew X amount, and the top 1% saw 90% of…
Nurturing Peacefulness
Editor’s Pick. Written by Kerry Spina. Just the word ‘stress’ can make our heart pound, thoughts run wild and body react. Peacefulness is a virtue that can bring the opposite reaction to stress. Balance is restored and nurtured with peacefulness. Peacefulness gives us permission to rest and care for ourselves. It fosters harmonious and respectful…
Hierarchy or the Market
Editor’s Pick. Written by Kevin Carson. In an article in last June’s Freeman (2007), I applied some ideas from the socialist-calculation debate to the private corporation and examined the extent to which it is an island of calculational chaos in the market economy. I’d like to expand that line of analysis now and apply some common…
How to Save Endangered Species
Editor’s Pick. Video by 60 Minutes, CBS News.