Striking the root
Subtitle: essays on liberty
By: Lawrence W. Reed
Contributors: Lehman, Joseph G.; Mackinac Center for Public Policy
Publisher: Mackinac Center for Public Policy
Published: 2008
Place of publication: Midland, MI
Language: eng
Number of pages: 98
ISBN-13: 9781890624729
Subjects: Liberty; Political science
Description: "In this volume, Lawrence W. Reed identifies the root of many of America's evils today: a failure to recognize that government rests on the use of force. This fundamental feature of government may help protect our individual freedoms, but it can diminish these freedoms when used in pursuit of a political faction's idea of a good cause"--Jacket.
Notes: "Foreword by Mackinac Center president Joseph G. Lehman"--Jacket.
Table of contents: title: Foreword; title: Preface; title: A definition of terms : freedom or free-for-all?; title: Government education reinvents government; title: Get rid of the labels; title: Don't expect much from politics; title: To own or be owned : that is the question; title: The golden calf of democracy; title: A think tank for those who don't think; title: The message of the nonvoter; title: Save us from great ideas; title: Government putts; title: An open letter to statists everywhere; title: America's economics knowledge deficit; title: Making the case for liberty stick; title: A necessary spring : Joe Overton: character for a free society; title: As values collapse, government grows; title: The true meaning of patriotism; title: Who owes what to whom?; title: Is there a statesman in the house?; title: What is real compassion?; title: Growing up means resisting the statist impulse; title: The triumphant future : How we'll know when we've won; title: Reviving a civil society; title: Seven principles of sound public policy; title: The love of power vs. the power of love.