CLASSICAL LIBERALISM AND FREEDOM OF THE PRESS

By: Leonard P. Liggio Histories of the Classical Liberal tradition begin with the Stoic philosophers of the Greco-Roman world. Greek political philosophy of Plato and Aristotle focused on the polis or Greek city-state with its small and homogeneous population. This world ended with Alexander the Great’s conquest of the Persian Empire. With his early death, his generals who were his successors from Egypt and Greece to the Indus River established several empires with large new cities of many populations but with commercial Greek as the common language. The polis was replaced by the cosmos polis – the world city, or…

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General Vo Nguyen Giap (1911-2013)

France in the Orient: The French Emperor Napoleon III sent a French military expedition (alongside the English) to support the Chinese emperor against the Taiping Rebellion (1850-1864) in 1860. Along the way, the French intervened in Vietnam and forced the Vietnamese emperor to cede to France the southern third of…

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Mrs. Merkel’s Lost Gamble: A Threat to Free Market Reforms

On Sunday September 22, 2013 Germany held its national parliamentary elections. The result, as expected, was a major victory for German Chancellor Angela Merkel. Her Christian Democratic Union/Christian Social Union won 42% of the vote giving them 5 seats short of an absolute majority. Thus, the three left-wing parties –…

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Felix Morley – Washington Post & his Career

FELIX MORLEY – Washington POST & his Career. by Leonard P. Liggio, from Felix Morley, For the Record (South Bend  IN, Regnery/Gateway,  1979)                                                                                                                    Felix Morley (1894-1982)  a leading libertarian scholar, editor and a founding member of the Mont Pelerin Society was made editor of the Washington Post after it was acquired in 1933 by…

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Notable & Quotable – Wall St. Journal

The Wall Street Journal’s Opinion page, A11, Wednesday, August 21, 2013 had a short quote entitled: “Ronald M Hartwell in “The Politicization of Society”” (1979). This refers to an essay of the late president of the Mont Pelerin Society and Oxford economic historian, Max Hartwell. The Institute for Humane Studies’…

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