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Crisis of the Administrative State
It wasn’t supposed to be like this.
Government and the Technology of Force
If you scratch a reformer, you will likely discover a plan for more government
Business, Slavery and Trust
Business is all about trust and relationship.
Humanity’s Big Problem: Freeloaders
The modern welfare state encourages freeloaders.
The Bonds of Faith
No society known to anthropology or history has lacked religion.
A Critique of Human Mechanics
When governments tried to govern on mechanical principles.
The Paradox of Individualism
People that believe in individualism experience individualism as an advanced form of socialization.
From Multitude to Civil Society
Softening the hard edge of instrumental reason.
The Answer is Civil Society
Civil Society: the joint development of the market, civil society, and nationalism.
The Greater Separation of Powers
If you want to limit power you must limit power.
Conservatism Three by Three
Balancing tradition with adapting to changing times.
Imagining a Culture of Involvement
You must suggest an alternative.
The Poor Without the Welfare State
What would happen to the poor without a welfare state?
The Middle Class Without the Welfare State
Can the middle class thrive without the supervision of the welfare state?
Liberals and the Welfare State
Liberals ought to be equal to the task of living lives of creative endeavor without political power.
From Freeloaders to Free Givers
But are we too wedded to freeloading?
The Real Meaning of Society
Broadening the horizon of cooperation in the “last best hope of man on earth.”
Why We Fight
We must fight for our “shining city on a hill”
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Faith & Purpose
“When we began first to preach these things, the people appeared as awakened from the sleep of ages—they seemed to see for the first time that they were responsible beings...”
Finke, Stark, The Churching of America, 1776-1990
Mutual Aid
In 1911... at least nine million of the 12 million covered by national insurance were already members of voluntary sick pay schemes. A similar proportion were also eligible for medical care.
Green, Reinventing Civil Society
Education
“We have met with families in which for weeks together, not an article of sustenance but potatoes had been used; yet for every child the hard-earned sum was provided to send them to school.”
E. G. West, Education and the State
Living Under Law
Law being too tenuous to rely upon in [Ulster and the Scottish borderlands], people developed patterns of settling differences by personal fighting and family feuds.
Thomas Sowell, Conquests and Cultures
German Philosophy
The primary thing to keep in mind about German and Russian thought since
1800 is that it takes for granted that the Cartesian, Lockean or Humean scientific and
philosophical conception of man and nature... has been shown by indisputable evidence to be
inadequate.
F.S.C. Northrop, The Meeting of East and West
Knowledge
Inquiry does not start unless there is a problem... It is the problem and its
characteristics revealed by analysis which guides one first to the relevant facts and then,
once the relevant facts are known, to the relevant hypotheses.
F.S.C. Northrop, The Logic of the Sciences and the Humanities
Chappies
“But I saw a man yesterday who knows a fellow who had it from a chappie
that said that Urquhart had been dipping himself a bit recklessly off the deep end.”
—Freddy Arbuthnot
Dorothy L. Sayers, Strong Poison
Democratic Capitalism
I mean three systems in one: a predominantly market economy; a polity respectful of the rights of the individual to life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness; and a system of cultural institutions moved by ideals of liberty and justice for all.
In short, three dynamic and converging systems functioning as one: a democratic polity, an economy based on markets and incentives, and a moral-cultural system which is plural and, in the largest sense, liberal.
Michael Novak, The Spirit of Democratic Capitalism
Action
The incentive that impels a man to act is always some uneasiness...
But to make a man act [he must have]
the expectation that purposeful behavior has the power to remove
or at least to alleviate the felt uneasiness.
Ludwig von Mises, Human Action
Churches
[In the] higher Christian churches... they saunter through the liturgy like Mohawks along a string of scaffolding who have long since forgotten their danger. If God were to blast such a service to bits, the congregation would be, I believe, genuinely shocked. But in the low churches you expect it every minute.
Annie Dillard, Holy the Firm
Conversion
“When we received Christ,” Phil added, “all of a sudden we now had a rule book to go by, and when we had problems the preacher was right there to give us the answers.”
James M. Ault, Jr., Spirit and Flesh
Living Law
The recognition and integration of extralegal property rights [in the Homestead Act] was a key element in the United States becoming the most important market economy and producer of capital in the world.
Hernando de Soto, The Mystery of Capital
