When governments use coercion to force people to act contrary to their personal choices, the results are often disappointing regardless of how well-intended the government program may have been.
Ideas are powerful. They change minds and motivate behavior. They are also potentially dangerous.
Former CBS reporter Sharyl Attkisson had the courage to question the actions of the Obama administration, and paid for it in myriad ways.
RALEIGH — Recent events in Ukraine have boosted national interest in nearby Moldova, one of the N.C. National Guard’s two partner states. The coordinator of the Guard’s State Partnership Program discussed Moldova’s challenges during today’s John Locke Foundation Shaftesbury Society meeting.
While Washington (maybe) gets its act together, state and local governments will have to take the lead in helping to reverse the trend away from economic freedom.
RALEIGH — Russia has witnessed massive changes over the past two decades. Not all of them have been good. Yuri Maltsev, professor of economics at Carthage College, served as a top economics adviser to Mikhail Gorbachev, the last leader of the former Soviet Union, before Maltsev defected to the United States in 1989. Earlier this year, Maltsev addressed the John Locke Foundation’s Shaftesbury Society on the topic “Russia, Hydrocarbons, Autocracy, and Power Politics.” He shared some key themes from that presentation during an interview with Mitch Kokai for Carolina Journal Radio.
For the vast majority of human beings, being alive in 2013 makes them among the luckiest people in the history of the world.
There’s much to be learned from events taking place across the Atlantic Ocean.
The distinguishing characteristic of a free society is that its citizens don't wake up in the morning expecting government to solve their problems.
The Morality of Capitalism is aimed especially at young people who have gotten a negative impression of capitalism — as the subtitle accurately suggests, college students are likely to hear little that’s good or accurate about it in their courses — but even veterans of the battle for liberty will find a lot of fresh, intriguing material here.
Freedom is not an arbitrary concept or term. It does not change its meaning from continent to continent, country to country, or culture to culture.
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