Clifford Thies asks: Can we really expect government to create quality cities using redistribution, government programs, and regulations? He shows that the worst cities in America are those that depend on government money and tax everyone to pay for it.

Planning Is Socialism

Tags: Political Theory, Private Property

09/14/2005 Ray Haynes

Ray Haynes read a dozen books in graduate school about how to plan for economic growth. Then he sat on a City Planning Commission.

Party of One

Tags: Political Theory, U.S. History

09/13/2005 Douglas E. French

They just don't make statesmen the way they used to, writes Doug French. Every week a new revelation comes to light about some senator or congressman's ethical transgressions.

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The Definition and Defense of Freedom

Tags: Philosophy and Methodology, Political Theory, Free Markets

08/30/2005 Llewellyn H. Rockwell Jr.

The definition of freedom is not complicated, writes Lew Rockwell. Freedom means that which the government does not control.

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