Martin van Creveld reminds us of when we were free
Today our lives are tightly regulated. Remember what we have lost, the first step to a better future.
freedom
Are there limits to institutions’ regulation of our actions?
What gives them this power? What are the limits? Will this erode away the Republic’s legitimacy?
Martin van Creveld vacations & discovers what we’ve lost: freedom
Summary: Martin van Creveld vacations in Potsdam. Amidst its natural beauty he finds something we’ve lost as we’ve built the regulatory state. Something valuable, almost beyond price. In Praise of Potsdam By Martin van Creveld From his website, 20 August 2014 Posted with his generous permission I am writing this from Potsdam, a …
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Is freedom the only value by which to judge governments?
From the opening of “Democracy and Freedom“, Bruce Walker, Canada Free Press, 29 March 2010: We often confuse democracy with freedom. The greatest good of government is liberty — that is what our Declaration of Independence emphatically states. Simply implementing the “Will of the People” is no more noble, true, or decent than the will of …
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Foolish but dangerous attempts to manage the media by Team Obama
Each President for several generations whittles away our freedoms. Each party has their preferences in freedoms to erode; neither displays much interest in expanding our political and economic interests — although all display generosity in trivial matters, and make token efforts on some important matters. Now Obama takes the knife. Media manipulation has been a primary …
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