David Gordon revisits Richard Weaver‘s 1948 classic Ideas Have Consequences and finds that this volume has much to tell us today. This review takes us through Weaver‘s views on property rights and the welfare state, and he found the latter wanting.
Breaking
- ‘If they close, they close’: Education Secretary brushes off private schools’ fate while praising Trump’s war plan
- The Human Trend
- The United States Needs a Spending Chainsaw
- Why the Bureaucracy Keeps Getting Bigger
- Just War and Lost Cause Mythology
- Revisiting James Burnham
- A Reader Describes the Realities of Work as a Defense Contractor
- Mega-Caps Weakening, More Trouble Ahead