Word: libertarianism
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...Douglas not to be ranked right at the top by the experts." For almost 37 years -first mostly in dissent, then as part of the Warren Court majority, finally in dissent once more-he etched a record that above all marked him as the most doctrinaire and committed civil libertarian ever to sit on the court...
...only in that context that the anti-civil libertarian features of S.1 can be understood. A list of a few provisions of the bill will make it clear exactly what type of threat S.1 poses...
...right of the Chicago school are the truly consistent advocates of free market capitalism-the radical libertarian Austrian school. The Austrians represent an approach to economics fundamentally different from the previous two schools. The major differences between the Chicago conservatives and Harvard liberals are partly theoretical, but mainly empirical and philosophical. The Austrians, however, challenge the basic methodologies of both these schools and disagree with their major theoretical models...
WITH the entire economic spectrum in view, one notes that not a single Austrian libertarian is a member of the tenured faculty in the Harvard Economics department despite the Austrians' basic scholarly challenge. There are really no tenured Chicago conservatives either, unless one seriously stretches the definition. Even then there are no more than two or three. Arrayed against this meager representation are 26 Harvard liberals and one Marxist...
...Justice William O. Douglas, 76, has crustily refused to remove his unique voice from the Supreme Court. But last week, as the current term was moving toward the latest regular-session adjournment in history, it was learned that Douglas' fellow Justices had quietly moved to moot the great libertarian by unofficially discounting his vote...