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Index of Subject Matter
On governing:
On the Constitution,
on the imperfections of the U.S. Constitution, 89
on the philosophical and practical content of the
Constitution, 88
on the value of The Federalist in explaining and
defining the Constitution, 88
on the obligation and power of the judiciary to keep
government within the bounds of
the
Constitution, 106,
160-161
on the goal of equality of result falsely springing
from the Constitution's demand for equality of
opportunity, 104
On law,
on its basis in natural rights, 54, 98, 299
on judicial activism, 106, 161
On governance,
on the necessity of a free society to operate by
means of unstated and informal agreements
(reciprocity of
obligation), 66, 68, 71, 116
on the conjunction of liberty and responsibility;
rights and duties, 4, 7, 20, 24, 53, 66, 69, 89,
99, 112, 115, 130, 170,
172, 182-184, 198, 224, 261, 265, 296, 299-301, 371
in the Constitution, 4
on the components of ordered freedom, contractual
government, 33, 53, 55, 66, 71, 300, 303,
327
that governing (and economics), above all, is an art,
not a science, 287, 303
on the ability of laws, institutions, government, or
men to order society; that a moral foundation
must first exist, 89,
116, 326, 360
on the utility of precedent as a mechanism for
structuring government, 15, 56, 120, 301, 309,
326
on history's prescriptions, 4, 32, 55, 115, 278, 308,
309
on the effects of social science on governing, 32,
173
on taking government programs and theories to their
logical conclusions, 16, 29, 212, 226, 271,
294, 337
on the nature of the social contract and the consent
of the governed, 54, 55, 57, 110
on egalitarianism, 38, 102-103, 257, 294, 299, 308
that constraints on the citizenry's freedom gradually
lead to authoritarianism and then
totalitarianism, 72,
108, 117, 143, 198, 219, 288, 296, 313, 321
on the fatal conceit of the political class, 26, 33,
139, 156, 165, 182, 187, 227, 256-257, 269,
324 364, 369
on the nature and value of leadership, 6, 29, 153,
168, 193, 198, 252, 260, 272, 295, 303,
322, 360, 370
on the difference between using power and using
principle to effect political goals, 159, 367
on the aversion of intellectuals to rely upon
personal responsibility to ensure both individual
well-being and societal
tranquility, 116, 204
on the rule of law, 14, 17, 29, 32, 37, 67, 97, 103,
109, 143, 174, 199, 322
on the law of unintended consequences, 4, 24, 103,
120, 138, 153, 173, 203, 207, 212, 220,
248, 265, 286, 307,
323, 350, 366
On government,
on the first purpose of government: to foster the
citizen's ability to defend his person, liberty, and
property, 97
on government as arbiter, not director, of social and
economic interaction, 4, 136, 143-144,
199, 219, 255, 364-365
on the disconnection between government activities,
and fiscal accountability and free-market
discipline and
consequences, 32-35, 136, 145, 198, 280
on "unsupervised" government, 174, 361, 369
that government has no money except the people's
money, 175, 203, 215
on the power and authoritarianism of bureaucracies,
33, 111
on the nature of the public servant, 155, 253, 256,
258, 267, 274, 365
on politics and the free lunch, 15, 16, 34, 128, 170,
179, 208, 209, 238, 314, 350, 360
on the size, complexity, and distance of government
from citizens (centralized government); how
citizens lose control
of government, 38, 68, 90, 104, 106, 215, 218, 280, 361
on reducing the size of government, 280, 370
on the need for a crisis to arise before democracy
moves rationally, 218
on making a difference, 16, 361-362, 371
on "bitter experience" being the starting
point for citizen involvement in government, 362
on the sturdiness of a law or policy's continuation
once in place, no matter its effects or
ill-founded impetus,
126, 364, 366-367
on government distortion of society or social
interaction by its efforts; on further government
action/interference
being an attempt to remedy the mistakes it has previously made, 100,
126, 127, 141, 147-148,
226, 265, 325, (see also the law of unintended consequences)
on the increase in government spending, rather than
the reduction of previously created debt, as
new tax revenues are
created by lower taxes, 232 passim
On welfarism and "entitlements,"
as a political tool to ensure society is organized in
a politically correct fashion, 363-364
as the cause of the growth of government, 257, 363
on the redistribution of wealth to effect
equalitarianism, 23, 28, 31, 99, 133, 144, 175, 183,
205, 216, 221, 236 passim,
244, 266, 364
that welfarism is socialism repackaged for the
twentieth century and beyond, 18, 99, 126, 209,
241, 281
on the morality of taking property from some to give
to others, 9, 95, 221, 236-237, 246, 273,
281, 364
on the nature, extent, and duration of
"entitlements," 16, 34, 95-96, 125, 144, 172, 173, 209,
214, 258, 266, 274,
281, 350, 364
on the social safety and social welfare nets, 24, 31,
127, 130, 141, 145, 222, 237, 295,
364-365
welfarism as a political tool to achieve election or
reelection, 95, 99, 100, 127, 129, 170, 179,
207, 238, 243, 251, 265,
281, 365, 370
on the value of a hand up versus a handout, 34, 127,
129, 267
on the culture of dependency, incapability, 29, 98,
125, 129, 144, 174, 209, 214, 216, 236
passim, 257, 364
on making people better off, 272, 364
on the demotion of property's status; its use as a
vehicle to attain equalitarian goals, 125
on the moral indictment issued for being economically
successful, 364
on "social justice," 150, 210, 221, 239,
333, 362, 364
On charity,
that government beneficence and welfare drive out
private charitable initiatives and care, 222,
236, 241, 256, 278
on applying private sector business practices to
private (or public) sector charitable efforts, 259
Citizens and the citizenry:
On democracy,
that order and the rule of law are necessary
antecedents to democracy, 66, 199
on the ascension of democratic rule over the rights
of the individual, 148, 164 (see also tyranny
of the majority)
that democracy can become a form of despotism, 107,
111, 156, 160
as a method of removing, and selecting, leaders, 57,
160
on the politician's fear of the electorate, 4
on retaining power, reelection, by the political
class, 33, 156, 162, 219, 365
that the failure of democracy results not in anarchy
but totalitarianism, 108, 145
on the tyranny of the majority, 30, 97, 103 passim,
111, 304
on repairing the problems of democracy and capitalism
without wholly discarding either system,
14, 145, 187, 273,
304-305
On vigilance,
on individual responsibility and personal involvement
in governance, 7, 14, 20, 21, 363
on citizen vigilance as the (sole) antidote to
government that exceeds the object of its design, 16,
35, 105, 106, 112, 114,
144, 155 passim, 255, 310, 361, 363, 371
on the need for an intellectual revolution before a
political one (peaceful or otherwise) can occur,
69, 174, 260
on trusting to the good intentions of others, 32, 97,
106, 126, 144, 163, 179, 288, 322, 330, 337, 360-63
On language,
on the meaning of word "liberal" in the
U.S. and Europe before and after the Great Depression,
23-25, 173
on the precise use and distortions thereof, 23-25,
173, 310
On the effects of media and information,
on the amount of information available regarding
government and politics; the public's ability to
dissect or comprehend
it, to not suffer intellectual paralysis, 53, 106-107, 295
used to increase citizen knowledge, 15, 106
as it affects governing, 27, 101, 174, 195, 281, 371
as it affects politics, 14, 32-33, 58, 95, 99, 105,
133, 168, 180, 255, 264, 282
exploitation and profit by the media, 35-36, 137,
231, 245-246, 309, 347, 349, 357
on the human condition and, 18, 295
restraint by the media, 309, 334
the public's trust in, 158, 195
On economic matters:
On economics,
on the necessary conjunction of free-market economics
and individual and political freedom, 32,
35, 136, 145
on adapting economic policy to man, not man to
economic policy, 37, 234, 274, 289
on the multiplier effect of capitalistic enterprise,
36, 123, 127, 213
on short term quick economic 'fixes,' that cause
long-term ills, 212, 239, 286, 288, 332
as government control of the market increases (taxes
and regulations), the economy itself
decreases, perversely
requiring further government intervention (additional taxes and
regulations or the
printing of money it cannot collect, thus causing rampant inflation; or both)
in order to maintain
its current level of activity and income, thus further reducing the
economic pie, ad
nauseum (killing the geese laying the golden eggs), 101, 183, 199, 234
passim
on the extension of the Great Depression's effects
through government mismanagement of its
underlying causes; the
resulting growth of the welfare state as a replacement for state
socialism, 127, 197,
214, 287
on inflation and a sound economy, 90, 197, 199, 204,
213, 215, 239, 253, 255, 280, 286-288
on the nature and effects of government deficit
spending, 208, 213, 234, 288
On capitalism, capitalists,
on capitalism's moral foundations, 14, 35, 37
on the necessity of freedom of action and consequence
for capitalism (or government) to work,
35, 37, 330
on the connection between the differences among
individuals and the substance of capitalistic
enterprise, 116,
122-123, 149-150, 272, 330-331
on human "uneasiness" as the cause of
progress, 133, 329-330
on self-interest as the driver of improvement, 69,
140
on enlightened self-interest, 38, 53, 100, 134 passim,
140-141, 143, 204, 231
on incentive,
as the engine of
progress, 17, 31, 33, 34, 37, 98, 101, 143, 179, 199, 268, 325
on the decrease of
incentive as taxation and regulation increase, 101, 123, 232, 283
as the demand for
equality of result increases, incentive decreases, economic activity
declines, 37, 124
on the free market, 3, 102, 128, 132, 199, 204, 220,
224, 230 passim, 253, 326
on free market discipline, 33, 134, 199, 251, 280,
314
on the rationalization of human activity by means of
capitalism's logic, 144, 314
that capitalism creates a higher standard of living
operating at its lowest level than collectivist
societies create
operating at their highest potential, 35, 101, 141, 242, 244, 247, 265, 333
on what capitalists owe or are owed by society, 36-37
on the activities of thieves and frauds within
capitalist enterprise, 35-36, 136-137, 231
On socialism,
that a totalitarian government (force) is necessary
to effect socialism (the welfare state) and to
thereafter operate it,
30, 98, 142, 198, 313
that the battle is not between capitalism and
socialism (welfarism) but between capitalism and
chaos, 37, 38, 333
as a form of economic slavery, 99, 172, 251, 272
that capitalism's wealth cannot be used to achieve
socialism's goals, to achieve the welfare state,
124, 234-236, 243-244
on collectivism, 19, 140, 305, 321
The human element:
On the human condition,
as the essential element to consider in designing
government, 22
on man's imperfectability, 15, 26, 37, 66, 115, 151,
220, 309, 319, 322
on corruption, 27, 31, 35, 57, 71, 96, 145, 200, 225,
247, 252, 255, 322, 341, 361
intellectual, 147, 148,
228
on the distortion of
society's relationships through, 14, 326
although perfecting humanity is not possible,
striving for such is uniformly beneficial, 117
the human spirit, the human condition's opposite
side, 316, 317,360
on individualism, 26, 29, 30, 32, 34, 103, 104, 107,
109-10, 114, 140 passim, 161, 218, 272,
279, 330
the individual
vis-à-vis government, 307
and property, 121, 124
on opportunity and discipline, 4
that human frailties are as likely in the governors,
maybe more so, as they are in the governed,
143, 269, 322
on making life risk free, 330, 358, 366
on the fragility of life and community, 360
on the emotional response to life's difficulties, 19,
31, 34, 96, 123, 140, 161, 170, 197, 241,
354
Philosophical considerations:
On authority and power,
on the need for authority to control men, but not
absolute authority, 54, 114
on government oversight and control of individual
conduct, 5, 89, 115, 153, 365, 370
on theoretical citizen fear of one another and the
need for a central authority to protect
individuals, 53, 100,
366
on the devolution of Constitutional protections
through court and Congressional assumption of
prerogatives;
government institutions and the use of power to protect society rather than
the
individual, 160, 162,
163, 325, 337
on the fiction of the "will" or
"general will" of the people, 68, 99, 154 passim, 158, 163,
284
that there is no deified "general will" in
the state; that the state is not supreme nor the supreme
good, but subordinate
to the individual, 115, 158
that government must be given power commensurate with
the tasks assigned to it, 55, 165, 259
on gaining political advantage by the use of
government's power; how power overcomes the
institutions of
government, 153, 161, 164, 336
on the slippery slope of authoritarianism and
equalitarianism, 31, 100, 102, 106, 111, 288, 360
passim
on the nature and power of those who govern, 143,
155-157, 337
that those in authority tend to self-aggrandizement
and self-interest, 54, 102, 143, 322, 337
on the necessity of hierarchical systems of
authority, 38, 296, 308, 352
on how the roles of private wealth and public
authority have been reversed, 124-125, 336-337
on the necessity of changing democratic government
from the outside whenever those elected do
not adhere to their
promises, 148, 367
On utopianism and the Enlightenment,
utopia's injustice, 19, 140, 216
on the failure to achieve utopia, 19, 140-141, 218,
319, 362
governance based on what can be thought of versus
what can be done, 37, 69-70, 100, 150,
173
on the nature and thinking of the philosophes of
eighteenth century France, 69-70, 122
On inequality,
as life's most basic circumstance, 30, 38, 220,
236-237, 362
as the primary factor of human progress, 30, 35, 37,
69, 115, 236, 362
on the nature of inequality and property
distribution, 123, 220, 242
that freedom and equality are mutually exclusive, 362
On freedom/liberty,
and anarchy, 17, 33, 66, 97, 108, 143, 296, 300
as the highest political goal, 39, 109, 114, 160, 164
of choice, 4, 115, 116
on the difficulty of maintaining, 16, 106, 117, 220,
309, 363
on individual freedom being a natural right, not a
contractual agreement or a government grant,
29, 31, 54, 122, 157,
164, 299
on the inverse relationship between the size of
government and freedom for the individual, 26,
72, 282
on protecting social gains resulting from, 17, 371
on setting men free from the limits of other men, 362
on the conflict between freedom and security, 100,
257, 315, 317, 319-320, 322-323
that freedom results in unequal material and other
results, 30, 122, 242, 272
that freedom is not free, 20, 21, 187
that freedom is not a license but implies duties, 20,
54
that freedom can be frightening, but a lack of
freedom is more so, 141
On morality/virtue/ethics,
on the necessity of a moral/virtuous society in order
to have a free society, 27, 67, 68, 117-118,
204, 276, 360, 361
on public morality as the basis for political
construction, 109, 309, 361, 371
on public morality guiding economic policy, 362
that virtue cannot be decreed or legislated, 66, 117,
361
on moral relativism (that any one moral choice is not
as valid as any other), 27, 104, 112, 297,
363
on the equality of choices; that there are good and
bad choices, 39, 201, 363
On ideas,
the marketplace of ideas, 35, 363
on the power, value, utility of ideas, 17, 107, 108,
279
that ideas have consequences, 39, 294
that ideas are more powerful than vested interests,
17, 252, 316, 358
on common sense, 3, 39, 175, 180, 206, 209, 218, 232,
296, 308, 332, 357, 358
on the differences between the French (1789) and
American Revolutions, 148-149, 246
378
Note: The Index runs from pages 379 to 408, however, individual page numbers
do not appear within the body of the Index itself.
INDEX
A.
accountability,
bureaucratic, 33, 259, 269
fiscal, 33, 259
personal, 23, 125, 144, 295
acquired rights, (see rights, acquired)
Acton, Lord, 39, 114, 140, 160, 182, 367
Adams, John, 28, 39, 173, 179, 360
Adenauer, Conrad, 198
affirmative action, 31
Afghanistan, 6
African Slavery in America, 59
After Liberalism, 23
Age of Reason, 59
Age of Reason, 70
Agentry, The, 156
Alexander I, Tsar, 289
Alice in Wonderland, 333, 364
American Revolution, 1776, (see revolution)
anarchy,
capitalism and, 36, 283
community and, 276, 283
freedom and, 17, 66, 143, 296, 297
Hobbes, Thomas, and, 53
human connectedness and, 70
morality and, 66, 104
rule of law and, 32, 99, 121, 135, 178, 273, 300, 328
totalitarianism and, 108, 296
Aristotle, 187, 299
Arlington National Cemetery, 20
Articles of Confederation, 25, 88, 92
aspiration, human, (see human striving, aspiration)
Athens, 320
Austria, 271
Austrian School of Economics, (see economics, Austrian School of)
autarky, (see nationalism, autarky)
authoritarian, -ism, 18, 29, 115, 141, 163, 324, 338, 366
monarchical, 136
B.
Bacon, Francis, Sir, 327
Bailyn, Bernard, 268
Baker, James A., III 6
Balkans, 315
Bandung Conference, 200
Barzun, Jacques, 38, 39
Basic Economics, 130, 351
Bastiat, Frederic, 130, 138, 173, 203, 236, 242
Bastille, 58
Bay of Pigs, 177
Beethoven, Ludwig, von, 330
Begala, Paul, 370
behaviorists, 32
Bell Curve, The, 184, 270
Benthamism, (see utilitarianism)
Berlin Wall, 205, 277
Bicentennial, American, 20
Big Steel, (see United States Steel)
Bill of Responsibilities, 20, 117
Bill of Rights, 20, 88, 117, 157
First Amendment, 160
Tenth Amendment, 161
black market, 288
Black September, 344
blogs, (see Internet)
Bodin, Jean, 120, 234
bourgeoisie, 272
Bozell, L. Brent, 177
Brain Trust, 127
Brandeis, Louis D., U.S. Supreme Court Justice, 126
Britain, (see Great Britain)
Buckley, William F., Jr., 14, 25, 169 passim, 260, 310
bureaucracy, bureaucrats,
control by, 24, 26 33, 54, 147, 155, 156, 164, 183,
214, 219, 232, 247, 253, 314
courts and, 161
growth of, 105, 111, 136, 141, 147, 215, 368
nanny state and, (see nanny state, bureaucracy
and)
power and, 155-156, 178, 243, 261, 269, 274, 276, 365
rule making and, 4, 228, 361
socialism and, 272-273
state welfarism and, 39, 144, 206, 208, 281, 333
volunteerism and, 256, 259, 265
Burke, Edmund, 26, 35, 56 passim, 109, 111, 114 passim, 159,
278, 307
Burns, James MacGregor, 7
Bush, George W., 259
C.
Caesar, Julius, 68
Calvin, John, 68
capitalism,
altruism and, 231
capital and, 208, 282
chaos and, 37, 38, 333
consumer and, 132, 134, 205, 227, 230 passim
definition of, 230-231
democracy and, 203
dishonesty within, and distortions of, 35 passim,
136, 220, 231, 325
enlightened self-interest and, (see
self-interest, enlightened)
foreign policy and, 191
freedom and, 32, 209, 218 passim
generally, 14, 132, 218, 223, 230 passim, 250 passim,
313 passim, (see also economics; free
enterprise, free
market)
Great Depression and, (see Great Depression)
imperfections, systemic, 100, 103
injustice (putative), 242
invisible hand, 135, 197, 205, 252
labor, division of, and, 135, 138, 205, 230, 273, 330
living, standard of, (see free enterprise,
living, standard of)
mechanics of, 134, 205
monopolies and, 205, 206
morality and, 14, 274
multiplier effect, (see economic(s),
multiplier effect)
profit and, 230-32, 243 passim, 283
rationalizing human activity and, 145, 313
redistribution and, 236
self-interest and, (see self-interest,
enlightened)
socialism and, 18, 23, 37, 128, 147, 272, 277, 312 passim,
326, 333, 365
transparency and, 237
welfare state and, 125, 238, 365
Capitalism and Freedom, 123, 176, 226, 242, 261, 264
Capitalism, Socialism and Democracy, 145, 279, 338
capitalists, 35 passim
Carville, James, 370
Castro, Fidel, 177, 199
Catherine the Great, 289
Central America, 326
centralization, (see government, centralization)
Chamberlain, John, 207, 261
Chamberlain, Neville, 196
Chambers, Whittaker, 169
character,
individual, 27, 103, 105, 309
national, 236, 244, 248, 319, 360
Character of Nations, The, 360
charity,
Christian, 277, 332
public/private, 36, 53, 96-97, 103, 179, 206, 237,
241 passim, 259
checks and balances, 54, 67, 89, 103, 112, 147, 151, 155
Chesterton, G.K., 358
Chicago, University of, 218
China, 193, 244, 250, 312, 321, 348, 349
Church of England, 29
Churchill, Winston, 6, 12, 197, 236, 316, 362
Cicero, 120
citizen(s),
capitalism and, 102, 137, 205, 234, 324
centralization of government and, 90, 175, 219, 264,
280
classical liberalism and, 29
community and, 284
conservatism and, 23-24
courts and, 161
democracy and, 103, 112, 129, 153, 156, 163
equality and, 68, 102, 104, 107, 242
freedom and, 109, 110, 224 passim, 364
generally, 7, 14-15, 20-21, 203-204, 278
government and, 136, 143, 148, 153, 215, 255, 344
Locke, John, 53-54
morality, virtue, and, 89, 117, 360
obligations of, 184, 300, 304, 370
property and, 120, 122, 124, 126
taxation and, 123, 208, 248
the state and, 104, 288
vigilance and, 28, 35, 105, 112, 155, 156, 160, 162,
198, 310, 361
Civil War (U.S.), 110, 191
class warfare, 103, 104, 111, 241, 245-246
class, political, (see political class, the)
Clinton, Bill, 186, 259, 295, 366
Clinton, George, 87
Codevilla, Angelo, 360
Cold War, 6, 49, 128, 180, 191, 193
collectivism, collectivists, 17, 19, 28 passim, 98, 140, 305, 317
authoritarianism and, 115, 141
command economy and, 250
communists and, 336
economic slavery and, 17, 49, 99, 172, 180, 272
equality and, 140
freedom of choice and, (see freedom, of
choice)
incentive and, 142, 280
individual and, 29, 145, 147, 187, 279, 321-323
inflation and, 280
Islam and, 317
justice and, 221
managerial state and, 31
preparing for its demise, 170, 218
redistribution and, 221
taxation, regulation, and, 144-145, 253
totalitarianism and, 30, 115, 143, 277
wartime and, 197, 279
welfare state and, 18, 271, 279
colonialism, 200
Colombia, 341
cocaine trade, 342
Escobar, Pablo, (see Escobar, Pablo)
Medellin, City of, 342
Pepes, Los, 343
Violencia, La, 341
Commanding Heights, The, 19, 107, 175, 199, 277, 288
Commerce Clause, U.S. Constitution, (see Constitution of the United
States, Article I, Section 8)
communism, 19, 70, 115, 124, 128, 178, 250, 272, 305, 312
Communism Memorial, Victims of, 171
Communism, Soviet, 39, 140, 191, 335 passim
Communist Manifesto, The, 28, 312, 325
Communist Party, 251, 335
community, 14, 30, 33, 53, 54, 98, 164, 263, 276, 320, 360
individual vs. community rights, 279, 280, 360
private charity and, 242, 256
Confederacy, U.S. Civil War, 361
Congress, U.S., 88, 95, 128, 143, 157, 160, 162, 175, 226, 233 passim,
264, 366 passim
Conscience of a Conservative, 177, 368
conservatism, conservatives,
capitalism and, 230, 237
classical liberalism and, 17, 24, 29, 32, 114, 142,
279
conservative thought 17, 19, 114, 308
definition, 22-23
equality and, 116
fusion, with libertarians, 114
generally, 18, 168 passim, 172-174, 256, 259,
299 passim
Goldwater, Barry, and, 177 passim
intellectuals and, 27, 35, 54, 310
Kirk, Russell, and, 307 passim
liberal, liberalism (the terms) and, 23
libertarians and, 114, 117
morality and, 180, 309
neoconservatives and, 106, 129, 151, 337
politics and, 234, 259, 274, 366, 369
responsibility and, 259-260
rights and, 31
terminology, 23-25, 29, 210, 278
Constitutional Convention (1787), 20, 88-91, 174, 234
Constitution of Liberty, The, 7, 28, 68, 147
Constitution of the United States, 4, 25, 30, 67-68, 103, 121, 157
Article I, Section 8 [commerce; general welfare; necessary and proper
clauses], 75, 161, 225
drafting 88
judicial protection of, 161
morality and, 148
original document with amendments, 73
Contract with America, 258, 267
contradiction, law of, 157
Coolidge, Calvin, 197, 237
Cornuelle, Richard, 97, 164, 206, 256, 267, 278
corruption, 27, 95, 255, 322, 326, 344
bureaucracy and, 31, 243, 370
education and, 15
finding it, 38
government morality and, 35, 97, 99, 130-131, 183,
341, 361
human condition and, 71
intellectual, 147, 148, 228
politics and, 145, 175, 247, 304
power and, 221, 326
courts, 34, 111, 148, 160, 226, 300
Cuba, 177, 191, 199, 244, 321
culture of dependency, incapability, 98, 124, 129, 144, 180, 209, 214, 216,
237, 241, 257, 364
D.
Darwinism, social, 136
D-Day, 20
debt, public, 235
Declaration of Independence, 20, 21, 57, 61, 88, 132, 183, 263, 360
deficits, fiscal, 175, 208, 213, 231, 235 passim, 266
definitions, 40 passim, 289 passim
de Gaulle, Charles, (see Gaulle, Charles, de,)
deism, 59
democracy, 3, 7, 102 passim, 247, 303 passim, 312
as a control on leaders, 57, 160, 221
bureaucracy and, 147
capitalism and, 327
church/state separation and, 195
Constitution and, 88
definition of, 151
democratic socialism and, (see socialism,
democratic)
equalitarianism and, 150, 203
freedom and, 18, 143, 156, 300
Greeks and, 320 passim
justice and, 110
majority rule and, 111
minorities and, 312
morality/virtue and, 27
order and, 200
power and, 148, 153-154, 160, 164, 284
representative, 4, 14, 54, 88
rule of law and, 199
socialism and, 142
Democracy in America, 102, 157, 164, 176, 296
democratic socialism, (see socialism, democratic)
demagogues, demagoguery, 15, 26, 35, 41, 125, 137, 209, 238
dependency, culture of, (see culture of dependency)
Depression, (see Great Depression)
despots, despotism, 18, 41, 102
determinism, 323
Dewey, John, 197
Dickinson, John 174
discipline, 16, 127, 129, 150
discrimination, 294 passim, 304, 315-316
dismal science, economics, the, 199, 287
diversity, 31
divided government, 161
division of labor, 53, 66, 135, 205, 230, 231, 273-274, 286, 314, 330
Dow Jones Industrial Average, 36
draft, military, 154
duty, (see responsibility)
Dylan, Bob, 12
E.
earmarks (congressional, of federal appropriations), 175
economic illiteracy, (see illiteracy, economic)
economic(s), 4, 23, 32 passim, 199, 272, 287, 289, 312, 326, 330, 332
anarchic nature, 287
as part of the political process, 288
Austrian School of, 146
barter system, 287
borderless, 204
command economy, 250, 252
dismal science, the, (see dismal science)
effect on population, 350
globalization, 205, 286
living, standard of, (see free enterprise,
living, standard of)
multiplier effect, 36, 123, 127, 213, 245, 251
oppression, 37, 332
slavery, (see collectivism; human slavery)
supply-side, 232
zero-sum game, 333
Economics in One Lesson, 95, 138, 212, 218, 240
Economics of the Free Society, 130, 203, 335
education, 15, 268
egalitarianism, 38, 42, 102-103, 149, 257, 294, 299, 308
Einstein, Albert, 286, 331, 362
Eisenhower, Dwight David, 177, 178, 197, 331
elections, 57, 112, 147, 156
electoral power, 3, 111, 155, 163
electorate, American, 368-369
Elephant in the Room, The, 369
Eliot, T.S., 307
e-mail address (First Principles), 21
empiricism, 150-151
England, 29, 55, 124, 132, 253, 279
English common law, 55
English Revolution, (see revolution, English)
Enlightenment, 29, 119, 140, 312, 331
rationalism and, 164, 173, 225, 240, 250, 308
Scottish, 32, 48
the "state" and, 115
utopia and, 69, 70, 100, 254
entitlements,
administrative expansion of, 34
as acquired rights, 95, 281, 350, 364
as an obligation, 214, 258, 274
culture of dependency and, (see culture of
dependency)
effect of on citizens, 209, 219
modern state and, 16, 129, 144, 172, 173
politics and, 163, 258, 266, 281
property and, 125
entrepreneur, entrepreneurship,
as a debtor to society, 36
character of, 273, 282, 352
enlightened self-interest and, (see also
self-interest, enlightened) 231
government as, 219
government policy and, 213-214, 231-232
incentives and, 232, 238, 331
taxation and, 232 passim, 243 passim,
282
volunteerism, charitable organizations and, 259
E Pluribus Unum, 39
equal opportunity,
classical liberalism and, 142
equal result, equalitarianism, and, 37, 103-104, 272,
294
government and, 116, 144, 236, 244, 305, 331
individual and, 31, 162, 182, 246, 257, 264, 281
Libertarians and, 184
responsibility and, 150, 159
welfarism and, 31, 268, 308
equalitarians, equalitarianism, 23-24, 42, 294, 331, 365
authoritarianism and, 30, 98-99, 102, 104
centralization of government and, 106, 280
Christianity and, 277, 332
collectivism and, 19
freedom and, 220, 222
French Revolution (1789) and, 58, 150
incentive and, 308
individualism and, 134, 149, 221, 297
justice, fairness and, 149, 221, 319, 333, 363
liberal populism and, 23
Marx, Karl, and, 28
political correctness and, 31, 38, 144, 173, 296
property and, 125
redistribution and, 23
welfare state and, 220, 274, 281
equality, (see also mankind's, inequality is beneficial,)
and freedom are mutually exclusive, 362
is undesirable, 149, 296
of result, 71, 183, 264, 272, 308, 333
Escobar, Pablo Emilio Gaviria, 341 passim
shadow congressman, 342
Essays in the History of Liberty, 114, 149, 160
ethics, situational, 295
Ethics of Redistribution, The, 173, 236, 278
Europe,
America and, 6, 20, 23, 24, 109, 189, 191
colonialism and, 200
definition of liberal, liberalism in, 23-24, 32, 168
monarchy and, 111
population, (see population)
Smith, Adam, 132
socialism and, 99-100, 128, 225, 248, 254
Soviet Union, 250
statism in, 30-31, 200
excellence (human), 294
executive branch of government, 54
F.
Faith and Freedom, 98
family, 180, 197, 268, 331
family planning, 349
Fascism, fascists, 19, 42, 168, 272
fatal conceit, liberal, 26, 156, 257, 368
federal reserve bank/system, 281
Federalist, The, 25, 30, 88 passim, 112, 259
Federalist, The #10, 104, 331
Federalist, The #17, 89
Federalist, The #31, i
Federalist, The #44, 259
Federalist, The #55, 27
Federalist, The #70, 112
fertility rates, 348
replacement fertility rate, 348
total fertility rate, TFR, 348
feudalism, 314, 324
Fewer, 130, 193, 347
Forbes Magazine, 36
Forbes, Steve, 36
Ford, Henry, 273, 326, 362
Founding Fathers, 27, 190, 278, 331
France, 58-59, 68, 95, 99, 122, 141, 148, 173, 225, 277, 299 passim
Franklin, Benjamin, 28, 58, 59, 206
free enterprise, market, 132 passim, (see also
capitalism; economics)
corruption and, 326
discipline, free market, 33, 134, 199, 226, 251, 280,
314
dishonesty within, (see capitalism, dishonesty
within and distortions of)
government interference with, 220, 224, 225, 230
Great Depression, (see Great Depression)
human element and, 253, 254
impetus of, 134, 199, 203
individual and, 14, 230
inequality and, 37, 149, 150, 236, 242, 247
international trade and, 139, 197, 204-205, 286-287
living, standard of, 36, 101, 123, 141, 236, 244,
247-249, 265
effect of taxes on,
183, 243-244
collectivism vs. free
market, 242, 265
zero-sum economics, 333
monopoly in, (see capitalism, monopoly)
moral society and, 224, 280, 313
multiplier effect, (see economic(s),
multiplier effect)
political freedom and, 32, 102, 203, 218, 220-221,
224, 325, 327
Smith, Adam, (see Smith, Adam)
socialism and, 138, 250-251, 253
safety net, social, 145
taxation and, (see taxation)
transparency, 219, 237
welfare state and, 128, 145
free lunch,
entitlements and, 351
human element and, 16, 360
politics and, 15, 34, 128, 179, 208, 237
socialism and, 128, 314
free will, 224
freedom, liberty,
anarchy and, (see anarchy)
as a right not a grant, 29, 31, 54, 122, 157, 164,
299
as the highest political goal, 39, 109, 114, 160
capitalism and, 218 passim, 325
conservatism and, 309
duty and, (see responsibility, duty)
equalitarianism and, (see equalitarianism)
extent, 20
"freedom from want," 129
freedom is not free, 21, 187
human condition and, 15, 315
moral society and, 116
of choice, 4, 116, 199, 220 passim, 264, 331
ordered, 33, 38, 53, 55, 66, 71, 183, 300, 303, 328
totalitarianism and, 315, (see also
totalitarianism)
uncontrolled, 296
welfare state and, 133, 220
freedom and equality, 362
French Revolution, (see revolution, French)
Freud, Sigmund, 357
friction, as it affects tax dollars, 175, 213, 252
Friedman, Milton, 129, 140, 170, 203, 226, 242, 264
From Dawn to Decadence, 38
fusion, in re: conservatism, libertarianism 114
G.
Gadaffi, Muammar, 158-159
Gadaffi: The Desert Mystic, 158
Galbraith, John Kenneth, 238-239
Gallop Poll, 158
Gandhi, Mohandas, 198
Gates, Bill, 328-329
Gaulle, Charles, de, 197
General Welfare Clause, U.S. Constitution, (see Constitution of the
United States, Article I,
Section 8)
general will, (see will, general)
Germany, 20, 42, 128, 168, 193, 196, 215, 250, 253, 276-277, 316, 323
East, 276-277
Olympic Village, Munich, 344
population, 348
West, 276-277
Gingrich, Newt, 168, 258
Gironde, Gironde Party, 43
Gladstone, William, 113
globalization, economic, (see economics, globalization)
Golden Rule, 26, 55, 67, 70, 117, 204, 328
Goldwater, Barry, 126, 168, 274, 367
Gottfried, Paul, 23
government,
centralization, 68, 105, 108, 128, 135, 137, 141, 153, 164, 175, 219, 280
corruption and, 38, 57, 105, 130
deficit spending, (see deficits, fiscal)
destructive of state power and/or local rule, 88, 90, 106, 161, 264
emotion and, 19, 31, 34, 96, 130, 140, 144-145, 161, 164, 170, 173, 209, 241,
277
hierarchy within, 38, 296, 308, 352
incompetence, 38, 57, 227, 243, 361
intervention, in private lives, 369
one-size-fits-all, 141, 175, 256, 264, 269
power commensurate with its assigned tasks, 165, 259
representative, 3, 14, 30, 54, 88, 103, 120, 154-156, 158, 221, 282, (see
also democracy)
self-governance, 3-4, 18, 22, 25, 54, 69, 121, 148, 264, 307
society of, 337
spending, 233 passim
statist, (see statists, statism)
totalitarian, (see totalitarian, totalitarianism)
unfunded liabilities and, 175, 235
unsupervised, 361
vigilance, citizen, to control, 28, 35, 104-105, 112, 144, 155, 156, 160, 162,
165, 238, 310,
361
governors, governing class, 96, 106, 114, 120, 122, 128, 156, 158, 365
Great Britain, Britain, 29, 90, 196, 299, 316
prime minister of, 14, 196, 316
Great Depression, 23, 29, 172, 197, 236, 257
acquired rights, entitlements, 95
centralization and, 128
free enterprise and, 23, 126, 314
government interference lengthened, 127, 197, 214, 336
individualism and, 126, 236
New Deal, 95, 257, 336, 366
political change during, 168
volunteerism and, 267
Great Society, The, 95, 126, 233, 238, 366
Greeks, 55, 66-67, 110, 319
Grotius, Hugo, 120-121
guillotine, 58, 141, 303
guilt, social, 19, 179, 362, 364
H.
Hamilton, Alexander, 12, 25, 88 passim
Hammerskjold, Dag, 198
happiness (see also uneasiness), 21, 34, 132-133, 182-183, 263,
329-330
pursuit of, 61, 133, 268
Harding, Warren, 197
Harrington, James, 121
Hart, Benjamin, 98
Hawley-Smoot Tariff Act, 127, 197
Hayek, Friedrich von, 7, 17, 18, 25, 260
Constitution of Liberty, The, 7, 28, 68, 147
fatal conceit, of intellectuals/liberals, 26, 33, 156, 257, 330, 370
Mont Pelerin Society, 169-170, 218
Road to Serfdom, The, 17, 107, 118, 140, 147, 173, 212, 242, 259, 355
slippery slope effect, 360
Hazlitt, Henry, 95, 101, 138, 203, 212, 218, 240
Hegel, Friedrich, 271, 323 passim
Heritage Foundation, 186
hierarchy, (see government)
Hiss, Alger, 338
historicism, 323
Hitler, Adolph, 20, 42-43, 128, 165, 196, 198, 215, 323
Hobbes, Thomas, 53-54, 70, 100, 120, 124, 157, 366
Hong Kong, 313
Hoover, Herbert, 24
Human Action, 231, 314, 329
human action, 17, 70, 170, 286-287, 330
economic laws and, 150, 287
human condition, 18, 22, 32, 37-38, 138, 218
corruption and, 342
economics and, 34, 142, 280, 314
"goodwill towards men" and, 27
government and, 54, 55, 70, 134, 136, 147, 164, 263, 265
imperfectability, mankind's, 15, 26, 37-38, 66, 69, 71, 115, 143, 151, 173,
309, 318
making life risk free, 282, 358, 366
making people better off, 364
majority rule and, 104
property and, 55, 123
reason and, 70, 150
regimentation and, 4, 30, 174
Rome and, 68
socialism and, 271
welfare state and, 97, 144
human dignity, 57, 97-98, 104, 178, 216, 219, 245, 264, 268, 276, 281, 297
human element, 216, 252
human nature, 3, 15, 18, 27, 28, 30, 36, 55, 89, 105, 132, 135, 355
economics and, 218, 234, 238, 241, 271
happiness and (see also uneasiness), 329, 358
power and, 153, 168, 182, 246, 263
progress and, 156, 272
welfare and, 281
human rights, (see rights, human)
human spirit, 18, 26, 108, 163, 178, 268
enlightened self-interest and, 53, 101
equality and, 100, 133
human striving,
aspiration, 133, 199, 268-269
capability, pride, incentive, and, 97, 98, 143, 237, 283, 308
capitalism and, 134
disconnection between human experience and government design, 3, 174, 199, 336
Enlightenment and, 100
individuals making a difference, 7, 14, 20, 21, 363, 371
moral society and, 70
progress and, 132, 150, 272, 317, 320
redistribution and, 124, 216, 236 passim, 246, 273
Humane Economy, A, 37, 258, 276, 338
Hume, David, 48, 70, 139, 147
Humpty Dumpty, 25
Hurricane Katrina, 356
I.
idealism, idealists, 3, 31, 32, 364
ideas,
marketplace of, 35, 363
value/power of, 16, 107, 108, 187, 252, 279, 294 passim, 316
Ideas Have Consequences, 107, 242, 257
Ideological Origins of the American Revolution, The, 268
illiteracy, constitutional, 209
illiteracy, economic, 135, 158, 209, 238, 239, 289
immigration, 348, 351
imperfectability, man's, (see human condition, imperfectability,
mankind's)
incentive, 17, 34
bureaucrats and, 261, 367
collectivism/totalitarianism and, 98, 142, 280, 331
culture of dependency and, 125, 216
economics, supply-side, and, 232
equalitarianism and, 31, 37, 70-71, 123, 165
free market and, 98, 101, 132, 136, 199, 272, 325
human nature and, 232, 238, 271, 308, 360, 363
morality and, 35
property rights and, 32-33, 124, 273, 305
redistribution and, 242
taxation and, 171, 183, 207, 234, 244, 283
welfarism and, 179, 268
income, "excess," 242, 245, 282
In Defense of Freedom, 114, 224
In Defense of the American Constitutions, 360
India, 193, 194, 312, 313, 348
individualism,
action, individual, 286, 363
character and, 103, 305, 309
collectivism and, 30, 124, 140, 143, 278-279, 321, 331
equalitarianism, equality, and, 104, 145, 160, 332
fatal conceit (Hayek), and, 26
freedom of choice and, 220, 324
government and, 34, 53, 110, 153, 163, 218, 264
natural rights and duties and, 301-302, 304, 319
political correctness and, 31
tradition and, 115
welfare state and, 118
Industrial Revolution, 18, 36, 132, 273, 324
inequality, (see equality; mankind's, inequality)
inflation, 215, 280
American Revolution and, 90-91
government spending (printing money) and, 197, 199, 239, 251, 288
government spending, deficit, and, 213, 235
Keynes, John Maynard and, 208, 239, 251
monetary system and, 204
politics and, 239, 253, 287-288
information,
Information Age, 15
regarding the amount of, 15, 53, 106-107, 295-297
initiative, 17, 33, 171, 214, 244
injustice, 19, 97, 109, 149, 303
In Pursuit: Of Happiness and Good Government, 207, 257, 263
integrity, political, personal, (see mankind's, integrity)
intellectuals, 310, 319, 325
interests, special, 33, 147, 182, 226
Internet, 15, 106, 142, 232, 304
invisible hand, (see capitalism, invisible hand)
Iran, Tehran, American Embassy, 343
Iraq, 6, 192, 196, 315, 344
Islam, -ism, -ists, 7, 67, 165, 189, 191, 193, 200, 317, 343-344 (see also
jihadists, and Muslims)
Israel, 313, 343-345
Italy, 42, 48, 316, 344, 348
J.
Jacobins, 43, 60, 133, 284
Japan, 6, 128, 193, 313, 316, 348, 360
Jay, John, 88
Jefferson, Thomas, 360, 371
Declaration of Independence and, 263
Paine, Thomas and, 57
pursuit of happiness, 263, 360
rights and duties, 182, 371
Smith, Adam, and, 132, 205
U.S. Constitution and, 30, 97-98, 133, 148, 157, 159, 304
jihad, -ists, 339, (see also Islam)
Johnson, Lyndon, 95, 126, 180, 193, 233, 238, 239, 266, 366
Johnson, Paul, 195, 254
Jouvenel, Bertrand de,
On Power, 57, 68, 153, 182, 213, 227, 259, 284, 368
Ethics of Redistribution, The, 173, 236, 241, 278
judicial activism, 106, 161
judicial obligation/power/independence, 106, 112, 147, 155, 160
judicial sanctions, 365
justice,
capitalism and, 242, 247
collectivism and, 19
equality and, 149
freedom and, 220
government and, 97, 117, 136, 303
human condition and, 303
Greeks and, 110, 321
order and, 66
politics and, 182, 186
social, 199, 200, 209-210, 239, 333, 363
K.
Kant, Immanuel, 157, 271, 323
Keene, David, 14
Keillor, Garrison, 308
Kennan, George, 360
Kennedy, John F., 168, 177, 232, 237, 309
Keynes, John Maynard, 197
Great Depression and, 287
ideas are more powerful than vested interests, 17, 252, 316, 358
inflation, spending and, 208, 213, 239, 251
Khrushchev, Nikita, 186
Kirk, Russell, 22, 26, 56, 66, 169, 203, 248, 296
Korea, North, 244, 321, 348
Korean War Memorial, 187
L.
Laden, Osama bin, 343, 345
Laffer, Arthur, 232, 235
Laffer Curve, 232
Lake Wobegon, (see Wobegon, Lake)
language, precise use of, distortion of, 23-25
Latin America, 326, 339, 341, 343
Law, The, 95, 130, 138, 173, 236, 242
law of unintended consequences, (see unintended consequences, law of)
law, rule of, (see rule of law)
leaders, leadership, 6, 17, 29, 57, 121, 153 passim, 190, 193, 198,
252, 260, 281, 303, 322,
361
League of Nations, (see Nations, League of)
legislation, 4, 24, 33
bureaucratic power and, 220, 274
morality and, 66, 99
separation of powers, 148
legislators, 26, 54, 214, 227, 266, 365
legislature, 54, 157, 365
general will, 154, 162-163, 284
judicial limits, 106, 161
limits on, constitution 68, 148
Lenin, Vladimir, 210, 250 passim, 313
Leviathan, Leviathan, 53, 100, 114, 366
liberal populism, (see populism, liberal)
liberalism or classical liberalism (original, European meaning), 17, 23-25,
29, 32, 142
fusion, with libertarians, 114
liberals, liberal politicians, liberalism (modern American meaning), 23-25,
187, 308, 370
libertarians, libertarianism, 114 passim, 182 passim
fusion, with conservatives, 114
liberty, freedom, (see freedom, liberty)
Libya, 158
Lincoln, Abraham, 312
Lippmann, Walter, 197
living, standard of, (see free enterprise, living, standard of)
Locke, John, 53, 61, 70, 119, 120, 123, 132, 143, 147, 153, 157
London, 135, 304, 343
Losing Ground, 34
Louis XVI, 61
Luther, Martin, 21, 48
M.
Machiavelli, Niccolo, 59, 336, 344
macroeconomics, 208, 213, 220, 242, 286, 332
Madison, James, 27, 29, 30, 58, 88, 104, 148, 159, 161, 165, 213, 259
Madrid, 343
majority rule, 102, 103 passim, 156
individual rights vs., 304
tyranny of the majority, 30, 97, 103 passim, 111, 304
making a difference, (see human striving)
making life risk free, (see human striving)
making people better off, (see human condition)
Malthusian Theory, 347, 350
managerial state, 31
Manifest Destiny, 190, 192
mankind's,
inequality, 30, 337
inequality is beneficial, 30, 35, 236, 247-248
integrity,
intellectual, 25, 39, 145, 307, 339, 356
political, 67, 158, 182, 279, 282, 364, 369
personal, 148, 204, 276, 280, 295, 297
Mao Zedong, 198, 250, 323
Marne Salient, 20
Marshall Plan, 193
Marx, Karl, 28, 44, 127, 272-273, 312 passim, 323, 324 passim
336
materialism, 295
McDonald, Forrest, 39
McDougall, Walter A., 189, 196, 315, 344
McNamara, Robert, 193
media, mass media,
amount of information presented through, 295
as it affects governing, 3, 30, 101, 174, 281, 371
as it affects politics, 14, 32, 33, 58, 95, 99, 105-106, 133, 168, 180, 189,
255, 264, 282
exploitation, profit and, 27, 35, 36, 137, 231, 245-246, 349, 357
human condition and, 18, 295
integrity, 27, 309
public's trust in, 158, 195
restraint and, 254, 309
to increase citizen knowledge, 15, 106
Medicare, 24, 47, 248, 364
prescription drug benefit, 106
Memoir on Pauperism, 96
Mexico, 343, 348
Meyer, Frank, 24, 26, 114, 169, 224
Middle East, 191, 193, 200, 343-344
military draft, (see draft, military)
Mill, John Stuart, 38
Minnow, Newton, 309
Mises, Ludwig von, 17, 25, 37, 38, 203, 209, 210, 231, 240, 261, 271, 286,
314, 329, 336
Mississippi River, 90
Modern Times, 195, 254
modernity, 347, 350, 352
monarchy, monarchs, 29, 53-55, 58, 70, 98, 111, 121 passim, 136, 153 passim,
195, 299, 300
money, as a commodity, a means of exchange, and the foundation of a national
economy, 204,
286, 287
monopoly, (see capitalism, monopoly)
Montaigne dogma, 333
Montaigne, Michel Eyquem de, 333
Mont Pelerin Society, 169-170, 218, 220
moral/ethical/virtuous society, 27, 69-70, 362
freedom and, 332, 360-361
governing and, 116-117, 148, 224, 370
justice and, 305
power and, 68, 190
public virtue, 68
moral relativism, 27, 45, 104, 112, 209, 297, 363
Mother Theresa, 203, 361
Moynihan, Daniel Patrick, 169, 179-180, 239
multiculturalism, 31, 45
multiplier effect, (see economics, multiplier effect)
Munich, Germany, (see Olympic Village)
Murray, Charles, 34, 182, 207, 237, 257, 263
Muslims, 312, 339, 343-345 (see also Islam)
mystics, -ism, 294, 320
Myth of Society, (see Society, Myth of)
N.
9/11, 192, 321, 344, 345, 356
1984, 220, 295, 321
nanny state, 144, 164, 228, 331, 363, 366
bureaucracy and, 31
Napoleon, 135
National Review, 169
nationalism, autarky, 42, 287
nationalization, 199
Nations, League of, 191
nature, state of, 38, 54
Nazi, Nazism, 203, 272, 323-324
Necessary and Proper Clause, U.S. Constitution, (see Constitution of
the United States, Article I,
Section 8)
Negro Family, The Case For National Action, The, 180, 239
neoconservatives, 106, 129, 151, 337
neosocialism, 31, 141
New Deal, (see Great Depression, New Deal)
Newsweek Magazine, 343
New York, Troy, 39
Nietzsche, Friedrich, 42, 195
Nixon, Richard, 251, 339
Nobel Prize, 170, 218
No Child Left Behind legislation, 106, 141, 367
Noonan, Peggy, 368-369
North Korea, (see Korea, North)
O.
obligation, citizen, (see responsibility, duty)
Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA), 206
Olympic Village, Munich, Germany, 344
On Power, 57, 68, 153, 182, 213, 227, 247, 259, 284, 368
On The Right, 176, 188
one-size-fits-all government, (see government, one-size-fits-all)
oppression, economic, (see economic, oppression)
opportunity, (see also equal opportunity)
equality and, 37, 104, 183
equality of, 116, 142, 149, 162, 183
freedom and, 150, 237-239, 257, 264
government and, 4, 159, 268
human action and, 17, 281, 364
order and, 66
progress and, 133, 246
welfarism and, 31, 144
opulence, 135
ordered freedom, (see freedom, liberty; ordered)
Orwell, George, 12, 220, 295, 321
P.
Paine, Thomas, 13, 26, 39, 47, 57, 160, 301
Palestinians, 343
Panama, 341
Parables,
of the fish, 164, 179, 180
of the talents, 332
Parkinson, C. Northcote, 33, 258
Parkinson's Laws, 33
parliamentary system (democracy), 111, 154, 158, 160, 161-162, 300, 333
pathology, 354 passim
pathos, 354
Patriot Act, 141
Pearl Harbor, 321
Pepes, Los, (see Colombia)
personal responsibility, (see responsibility, personal)
philosophes, 69-70, 122
Pipes, Richard, 55, 119, 154, 209, 224, 303
Plato, 157, 319 passim
pluralism, 31, 46
Pol Pot, 198, 323
political class, the, 4, 32, 34, 157, 183, 206, 235, 239, 248
political correctness, 357, 362, 364, 365, 371
citizens and, 99, 117, 161, 296
education and, 15
equalitarianism and, 31, 104, 108, 144, 162, 173, 226, 274, 331
responsibility and, 38, 126-127, 130, 149-150, 362, 371
the state and, 72, 162, 333, 357
political reality, innocence, 225, 361
polymath, 59, 129, 317, 328
Popper, Karl, 294, 319
population, 347 passim
populism, liberal, 23, 28, 170
poverty, 19, 23, 97, 129, 130, 242, 244, 324, 351
War on, 247, 366
power, 71, 145, 153-154, 365
effect on those who have it, 102, 337
government, 219, 337
will to, 156, 195
powers, separation of, (see separation of powers)
praxeology, 261, 292, 330
prescription, historical, 4, 30, 32, 115, 278, 308, 309
privacy, 124
pro-natalism, 350
profit,
capitalism and, 36, 103, 134, 205, 230-232, 243-245, 327
socialism and, 142
taxation and, 232, 266, 283
progressive, progressivism, 99, 162, 199
proletariat, -ians, 40, 47, 49, 272, 290, 292, 333
Promised Land, Crusader State, 189, 196, 315, 344
property, 32, 119 passim, 153, 305
freedom and, 176, 179, 198, 224
private,
capitalism and, 32, 209, 222, 224, 288
economics and, 274
eminent domain and, 157
government and, 28, 32 passim, 38
happiness, pursuit of, and, 263
natural right to, 54, 288, 305, 307
politics and, 130, 313
rule of law and, 143
security and, 34, 153, 182
Smith, Adam, and, 132
socialism, redistribution and, 246, 272, 273, 313
Property and Freedom, 55, 119, 154, 176, 209, 224, 303
protectionism, economic, 287
Protestant Reformation, (see Reformation, Protestant)
Prussians, 38
psychology, 354 passim
public servant, 26, 155-156, 227, 247
Publius, 88-89
Puritans, Puritanism, 29, 47, 136
pursuit of happiness, (see happiness, pursuit of,)
Q.
quality of life, 246, 347
Quest for Community, 259
R.
rationalism, -ity,
Age of Reason and, 70
authoritarianism and, 115, 151
emotion and, 140, 173
empiricism and, 150-151
Enlightenment and, 69, 100, 225, 240, 308
equality, equalitarianism, and, 71
French Revolution (1789) and, 150, 164
idealism and, 3
Lenin, Vladimir, and, 250
rationalization of human behavior, 30, 145, 253, 313-314, 315, 338
Reagan, Ronald,
capitalism and, 205
conservatism and, 14, 168, 179, 180, 274, 369
debt, public, 235
leadership and, 17, 20, 367, 370
president, 72, 139, 140, 163, 178
supply-side economics, 232 passim
welfare state and, 270
Reagonomics, 232 passim
reason,
Age of Reason and, 70
as a means to truth, 69, 116, 331
experience and, 174, 187, 302, 309
force and, 193, 196, 315
French Revolution (1789) and, 70, 148
governing and, 22, 173, 320, 370
human condition and, 70, 150, 174, 320-321
intellectualism and, 310
power and, 159, 322
press, media, and, 309
socialism and, 150
utopia and, 149
Reclaiming the American Dream, 97, 164, 206, 256, 267, 278
redistribution, redistributionists, 236 passim, 266
equal distribution, equalitarianism and, 124, 129, 133, 236, 273
justice and, (see justice, social)
politics and, 23, 141, 175, 183, 216, 364-365
social comity and, 98
socialism and, 28
taxation and, 144, 183, 235, 244, 266
Reflections on the Revolution in France, 58, 299
Reformation, Protestant, 21, 29, 48, 68-69
regulation, 207, 221, 226-228, 232, 234, 253, 288, 362
centralization of government and, 141, 199, 219, 333
of human behavior, 26, 31, 33, 35, 69, 100
of property, 120, 221
judiciary and, 147
monopolies and, 207
politics and, 138, 145, 182, 197, 199, 228, 325
religion, 193, 195, 295, 305, 308, 317
as a social element, 26, 53, 69, 71
Calvinism, (see also Calvin, John), 40
First Amendment (U.S. Constitution), 81, 157
property and, 120
Renaissance, 48, 69
Republicans, 179, 267, 366 passim
Republican Congress, 366-369
responsibility, duty,
as a personal obligation, 4, 7, 26, 69, 112, 117, 129, 170, 198, 268, 297,
303, 360
Bill of Responsibilities, (see Bill of Responsibilities)
capitalism and, 137, 206
entitlements and, 145, 172
erosion of, 125, 126, 129, 144, 159
freedom and, 7, 20, 53, 115, 116, 150, 206, 265
government and, 126-127, 183, 219, 248, 261, 265
individualism and, 307
liberalism (traditional European) and, 24, 29
morality and, 224
open society and, (see society, open)
ordered liberty and, 184
political correctness and, 173, 296
politics and, 144
welfarism and, 31, 99, 130, 145, 183, 244
revolution, 124, 324
American, (War of Independence, Revolutionary War), 20, 58, 59, 92, 109-110,
148, 299,
366
English, 110
French (1789), 53, 58, 59, 68, 70, 98, 102, 105, 119, 141, 148, 246, 284, 299
French (1830), 108
French (1848), 98, 99, 101, 108
Russian, 210, 250, 272, 313
righteousness, self-, 155, 156, 200, 203, 206 246, 266, 330
rights,
acquired, 95
alienable, 121
civil, 31
Constitutional, 148
historic, prescriptive, 302
human, 31
inalienable, 121
individual, 31, 143, 301
natural, 29, 31, 54, 96, 103, 116, 122, 157, 299, 301-302, 305
property, 32, 55, 305
Rights of Man, The, 300
risk, as an element of life, 282, 330, 358, 366
Road to Serfdom, The, 17, 107, 118, 140, 147, 173, 212, 242, 259, 355
Roberts, Jason, 289
Robespierre, Maximilien, 43, 60
Rogers, Will, 258
Romans, 55, 57, 67-68, 163
Roosevelt, Franklin Delano, 24-25, 366, 369
Depression, Great, New Deal, and, 95, 127-129, 214, 257, 336
socialism and, 38, 128, 130, 177
Roosevelt, Theodore, 7, 103, 341
Roots of American Order, The, 56, 66, 121, 203, 248, 296
Roots of Capitalism, The, 207, 224
Ropke, Wilhelm, 25, 37, 203, 234, 245, 258, 276, 335, 338
Rousseau, Jean Jacques, 37, 70, 103, 105, 123, 148, 157, 158, 163, 234, 319
Rube Goldberg, 206
rule of law,
capitalism and, 242
freedom and, 17, 32, 199
government and, 29, 97, 143, 174, 322
human condition and, 102
morality and, 14, 37
responsibility and, 67
Russia, 168, 178, 193, 250, 289, 348
Russian Revolution, (see revolution, Russian)
S.
safety net, social, 24, 127, 130, 141, 145, 222, 237, 241, 243, 295, 364
Sager, Ryan, 369
St. Lawrence River, 90
St. Thomas Aquinas, 302
Santayana, George, 28, 344
Scalia, Antonin, U.S. Supreme Court Justice, 355
Schopenhauer, Arthur, 323
Schumpeter, Joseph, 145, 279, 312, 338
Scottish Enlightenment, (see Enlightenment, Scottish)
Second Treatise on Civil Government, 53, 70, 119, 132, 153
security,
anarchy versus, 135, 153, 155
collectivism and, 199, 323
equality and, 143
freedom versus, 100, 165, 206, 257, 282, 315, 317, 322
Greeks and, 319
property, distribution, and, 122
self-interest, 140-141, 230 277
enlightened, 38, 53, 69, 70, 100, 134-137, 141, 204, 231
socialism and enlightened, 143
self-sufficiency, 139, 164, 216, 219, 222, 264, 268, 278, 281, 364
Sense of the World, A 289
separation of powers, 42, 54, 67-68, 112, 147, 151, 155, 161
September 11, 2001, (see 9/11)
Serengeti Plain, 3
Seurat, Georges, 195
Shadagg, Stephen, 177
shamans, 320
Shultz, George, 254
Silesia, 131
situational ethics, (see ethics, situational)
slaves, slavery, human, 27, 57, 59, 91, 98, 110, 122, 172, 319, 361
slavery, economic, (see collectivism, economic slavery)
slippery slope of authoritarian or equalitarian government, 31, 106, 288, 360,
361, 363, 367
Smith, Adam,
capitalism and freedom, 35
classical liberalism and, 32, 48
division of labor and, 273, 287
enlightened self-interest, (see self-interest, enlightened)
free enterprise, market, 134 passim, 218
Hobbes, Thomas, and, 53
invisible hand, (see capitalism, invisible hand)
Keynes, John Maynard and, 208
Scottish Enlightenment, 32
self-interest, 140, 230-231
trade, 205, 287
Smoot-Hawley Tariff Act, (see Hawley-Smoot Tariff Act)
social compact, contract, 17, 48, 54, 70, 302
Social Crisis of Our Time, The, 276
social,
engineer, -ing, 95, 199, 206-207, 221, 283, 330
justice, 149, 209, 239, 320, 333, 363
safety net, (see safety net, social)
science, 32
welfare net, (see welfare net, social)
Social Security, 24, 47, 162, 175, 248, 264, 364
social welfare net, (see social, welfare net)
socialism, socialists, 271 passim, 365
as an intellectual concept, 38, 205
capitalism and, 23, 137, 170, 209, 253, 365
capitalism and chaos and, 37, 334
Christian charity and, 277
collectivism and, 19, 28, 147
demise of, 140, 151, 253, 297
despotism and, 30, 141, 142
equalitarianism and, 38, 111, 124, 220, 246, 254, 297
Europe and, 100
free lunch and, 314
Germany, East and West, and, 277
Great Britain and, 316
Great Depression and, 128
human condition and, 70-71, 297, 355
individualism and, 142-143, 144
inflation and, 280, 287
Mont Pelerin Society and, (see Mont Pelerin Society)
moral superiority and, 38, 257, 272
Roosevelt, Franklin Delano, and, 38
Russia (Vladimir Lenin) and, 250
slavery and, 17, 99
utopianism and, 279
welfare state and, 18, 29, 39, 98, 99, 162, 205, 209, 251, 265, 281, 308
zero-sum game and, 333
Socialism, 209, 329, 336
socialism, democratic, 24, 313
society,
closed, 277, 320 passim
open, 15, 29, 142, 189, 197, 199, 210, 242, 245, 277, 319 passim
Society, Myth of, 116
Socrates, 120, 320
South Africa, 312
South America, 326
Soviet Union (see Union of Soviet Socialist Republics)
Sowell, Thomas, 13, 130, 351
Spain, 90, 343, 348
special interests, (see interests, special)
speculators, 208
Spencer, Herbert, 12
spending, (see government, spending)
square one, 3, 5, 14, 17, 38, 56, 66, 88, 95, 130, 271, 364
Stalin, Joseph, 7, 198, 250, 323
Stanislaw, Joseph, 19, 199, 250, 288
"starve the beast," (see taxation, "starve the
beast")
Statecraft, 27
state of nature, (see nature, state of)
state welfarism, (see welfarism, state)
state, the, 32, 96, 110, 155 passim
as the supreme good, 38, 115
individualism and, 144
Roosevelt, Franklin D. and, 38
statists, statism, 30, 163
Stewart, Potter, U.S. Supreme Court Justice, 361
Sumner, William Graham, 129
Sunday on the Island of La Grande Jatte, A, 195
supply-side economics, (see economics, supply side)
Switzerland, 313
Sword of Imagination, The, 72
T.
Taft, Bob, U.S. Senator, 168, 170
Take It Back, 370
tariffs, 127, 197, 215, 287, 289
taxation,
as a disincentive, 171, 183, 199, 207, 212, 213, 232 passim, 281-282
capitalism and, 36, 101, 134, 232 passim
civic obligation of paying, 40, 68
courts and, 161
deficit spending and, (see deficits, fiscal)
"entitlements" and, 258, 274
entrepreneurs and, 123, 206, 232
flat tax, 233
freedom and, 176, 179, 207
Goldwater, Barry, and, 180
Great Depression and, 127, 214, 314
Keynes, John Maynard and, 287
liberalism, liberals, (modern American meaning) and, 24, 28, 174, 222, 236,
253
lower taxes, 232 passim, 367
political correctness and, 31
politics and, 33, 99, 120, 121, 175, 233 passim, 257, 369
power and, 156, 207
public administration and, 33, 227, 362
redistribution and, 144, 183, 222, 236, 242
revolt against, 90, 248
"rich," wealthy, taxing the, 238, 245, 282-283
security and, 155, 257
spending, as revenues increase and taxes are lowered, 232 passim, 367
"starve the beast" of government, 234, 261
U.S. Constitution and, 25, 91, 182
vigilance, citizen, to control, 35, 208
welfarism, welfare state and, 125, 129, 174, 180, 266, 274
Ten Commandments, 40, 119
terrorism, 6, 165, 190, 192, 194, 339, 343
Thatcher, Margaret, 14, 17, 27, 140, 163, 198, 253
Theory of Money and Credit, The, 210, 240, 286
therapeutic state, 31, 164, 354
therapy, -ism, 354 passim
third rail, of politics, 178, 235
Third Reich, 203
Third World, 31, 178, 200, 248, 250, 312, 315, 317
Thurow, Lester, 238
TIME Magazine, 343, 357, 369
Tocqueville, Alexis de, 16, 70, 71, 96-97, 102, 111, 145, 157, 159, 164, 176,
259, 263, 296
totalitarian, -ism,
as a consequence of a failure of democracy, 72, 108, 317
as a consequence of the demise of monarchies, 195
capitalism and, 35-36, 126, 141, 144-145
collectivism and, 28-30, 143, 198-199, 313
democracy and, 148
human condition and, 115, 118, 220, 313, 322
inflation and, 287-288
information control and, 321
moral society and, 66, 109, 323
Plato and, 320, 322
political correctness and, 72, 296
redistribution and, 246, 277
righteousness and, 200
security and, 322-323
social engineering and, 330
standard of living and, (see free enterprise, living, standard of)
trade, international, 90, 92, 127, 132, 138, 204, 287, 289
transcendentalism, transcendent order, 294, 307
Treaty of Paris, 92
Treaty of Versailles, 196
Tremlett, George, 159
Treptow, Martin, 20
Trilling, Lionel, 308
Trotsky, Leon, 188
Truman, Harry, 360
Tumulty, Karen, 368
Turner, Ted, 330
Tuskegee Institute, 172
tyranny, 7, 29, 57, 58, 62-63, 98, 106, 163, 222, 330
tyranny of the majority, (see majority rule, tyranny of the majority)
U.
U2 spy plane, 178
uneasiness, in the human psyche (see also happiness), 133,
329-330
unintended consequences, law of,
freedom of choice/action as antidote to, 225, 323, 350
good intentions, theories, and, 39, 103, 120, 168, 173, 207, 208, 212, 366
government and, 4, 153, 203, 221, 237, 265, 307
politics and, 24, 126
short-term government action versus long-term economic consequences, 286
"solving" inequality and, 248
Union of Soviet Socialist Republics (Soviet Union),
central planning and, 141
Cold War and, (see Cold War)
communism/socialism/collectivism and, 244, 250, 251
controlled society and, 321
Cuba and, 177
demise of, 14, 140, 192, 335
Germany and, 277
Vietnam and, 191
World War II and, 193
United States Steel, 227
United Student Aid Funds, Inc., 260
"unsupervised" government, (see government, unsupervised)
Up From Liberalism, 172, 310
Up From Slavery, 172
utilitarianism, 150
utopia, -ism,
as a societal goal, 19, 36, 171, 321
authoritarianism and, 115, 362, 366
collectivism and totalitarianism as a means to, 139, 218, 279
Enlightenment and, 69-70, 100, 140
equalitarianism and, 71, 366
human condition and, 272, 309, 322
persistence of, 205, 336, 362
Plato and, 320 passim
(political) power of the state and, 32, 130, 145, 153
using reason to deconstruct, 174, 187, 301, 319 passim
V.
Valery, Paul, 366
Victims of Communism Memorial, (see Communism Memorial, Victims of)
Victoria, Queen, Victorian age, 111
Vietnam, 191, 193
vigilance, (see citizen, vigilance)
vigilantes, -ism, 343
Violencia, La, (see Colombia)
virtue, virtuous society, (see moral/ethical/virtuous society)
Voltaire, 48, 139
volunteer, volunteerism, 256 passim, 267
voting, 104, 106, 263, 304, 363
assumption of power as a consequence of, 158, 160, 199, 210, 269
as a validation of policy, 239, 350
W.
wage and price controls, 251, 288
Wall Street Journal, 283, 368
War on Poverty, (see poverty, War on)
Washington, Booker T., 172
Washington, George, 57, 98, 154, 187
Wealth and Poverty, 37, 123, 174, 213, 230, 280, 283
Wealth of Nations, 35, 53, 69, 100, 132, 140, 205, 231, 273
Weaver, Richard, 242, 257, 260
websites, web addresses,
First Principles, 26
Mercatus Center (George Mason University), 269
welfare net, social, 24, 31, 130, 222, 243, 364
welfare programs, purpose of, 265, 281, 363
welfare reform, federal, 1996, 34, 125, 162, 259, 266, 267
Wisconsin, 219
welfarism, welfarists, welfare state,
analysis of, 125-126, 143, 145, 150-151, 209, 239, 266, 308, 337, 363-364
emotional appeal of, 19, 32, 144, 179
entitlements and, 95, 145, 209
equalitarianism and, 124, 141, 173, 221, 264, 281, 331
handout instead of a hand up, 34, 127, 129, 258, 266-267
individualism and community, destruction of, 111, 118, 124, 144, 182, 219, 282
Mont Pelerin Society and, 218
Negro Family, The Case For National Action, The, and, 239
politics and, 127-128, 130, 274, 333
property and, 125
rights/duties of suppliers/recipients of welfare, 96-97, 99, 125, 170, 218,
281
socialism and, 18, 29, 38, 39, 99, 128, 209
taxation and, 199, 274
volunteerism/charity and, 257, 277
Western Civilization, foundations, 14
What It Means To Be A Libertarian, 182, 237
Whigs, 300
wildebeest, 356
Wildebeest Effect, The, 2
will, deified, (in the state), 115
will, general, (of the citizenry), 46, 68, 99, 115, 154-155, 159, 162, 284
will to power, (see power, will to)
Wilson, James, 20
Wilson, Woodrow, 162, 191, 193, 196
Winthrop, John, 190
Witness, 169, 211 284, 335
Wobegon, Lake, 308
workfare, 126, 219, 259
World Trade Center bombing, (see 9/11)
World War I, 191, 192, 195, 196, 250
Germany and, 215, 253, 271
intellectual reaction to, 335, 336
World War II, 6, 128, 140, 191, 196, 250, 294, 323, 360
intellectual reaction to, 212, 276, 294
U.S. capitalism and, 191, 214
Y.
YAF, (see Young Americans for Freedom)
Yergin, Daniel, 19, 199, 250, 288
Young Americans for Freedom, YAF, 176, 188
YouTube, 25
Z.
zero-sum game, -economics, (see economics, zero-sum)
Zulu Nation, South Africa, 312
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