Our mentor has always been Hippocrates, not Adam Smith —President of a County Medical Society at an AMA meeting quoted in the February 16, 1981 issue of the New York Times . This weekend (June 11-13, 2004), the American Medical Association (AMA) will celebrate the 100th anniversary of its Council on Medical Education. The medical establishment
Jeffrey Friedman is wrapping up the first day of his seminar in the summer of 2003. “We have gotten off the table the idea that freedom is inherently valuable, or that capitalism is inherently valuable,” he says. “What we have left is that capitalism may be more valuable than the alternative, given the consequences.” We eleven are mostly students,
Both of the major political parties in the U.S. long ago adopted the rhetoric of the socialist Left with regard to tax deductions. The mortgage interest deduction, the state and local taxes deduction, and all others, are denigrated either as “loopholes” that need to be slammed shut or as sources of needless confusion. A November 8, 2004
Jim Bovard, in the words of the Orange County Register , is “Washington’s most hated truth-teller.” In his latest book, Terrorism and Tyranny: Trampling Freedom, Justice, and Peace to Rid the World of Evil , he sustains that long-standing reputation with surefire dignity and aplomb. You get a feeling about a book and its author, when, in the
I never thought I’d agree with a Marxist. While researching Prime Minister Blair’s Third Way, I fell upon a critique written by Barbara Humphries on marxist.com. She says: “The Third Way (if there is such a thing) has no solution to what is a fundamental inability of the capitalist system to ensure prosperity and security for working people.” Even
The self-identified champions of civil rights have prided themselves, for almost half of a century, on the violent eradication of ‘employment discrimination’ and pledge allegiance to affirmative action initiatives and other government imposed programs of the like. A recent headline about opposition to a new Louisiana state job application presents
When has there been a single piece of art, theater, or literature that has had such a profound impact on politics as Michael Moore’s latest film, “Fahrenheit 9/11”?Released at a pivotal time in both international affairs, in the wake of a much-debated military action in the ever-uneasy Middle East, and domestic politics, on the eve of the United
George W. Bush received endorsement from a meager 28% of the nation’s voting-aged population, while his challenger, John F. Kerry, was backed by some 27% of eligible voters. The guy with the higher number runs the country and more. What was the cost connected with this result? The Campaign Finance Institute estimated total outlays to the two major
For those who like to entertain themselves with the workings of the “political process,” these are fascinating times in Germany. In the country which is one of the last survivors of the classic European welfare state and, arguably, the one with the most encompassing public redistribution machine in the name of “social justice,” some legal reforms
Colleges offer their students a taste of reality by simulating the political atmosphere of society with the presence of student government associations (SGAs). The election process alone succeeds in mimicking the cutthroat environment of campaign promises, schmoozing constituencies, and mindless pride. Rather than encouraging students to be
What is the Mises Institute?
The Mises Institute is a non-profit organization that exists to promote teaching and research in the Austrian School of economics, individual freedom, honest history, and international peace, in the tradition of Ludwig von Mises and Murray N. Rothbard.
Non-political, non-partisan, and non-PC, we advocate a radical shift in the intellectual climate, away from statism and toward a private property order. We believe that our foundational ideas are of permanent value, and oppose all efforts at compromise, sellout, and amalgamation of these ideas with fashionable political, cultural, and social doctrines inimical to their spirit.