Entries from BatesLine tagged with 'freedom'

Does the "Swedish economic model" even work in Sweden?

An interview with Swedish author Johan Norberg explores the reality behind the Left's fantasies about Nordic socialism. Read the whole thing, but notice below the historical context that preceded the Swedish welfare state and the effect it had on the Swedish work ethic. To borrow Ronald Reagan's phrase, the safety...

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Posted by Michael Bates on March 18, 2018 2:32 PM

Liberty requires virtue

From an essay in The Public Discourse by Robert R. Reilly, replying to an essay by Patrick Deneen, who claims that the Founders created a Hobbesian republic containing the individualistic, antinomian seeds of its own destruction. However, he fails to mention that Madison, like almost all of the Founders, makes...

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Posted by Michael Bates on October 17, 2017 12:55 AM

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