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The Freeman 1994 THEmEE IDEAS ON LIBERTY 276 Things Are Better Than We Think (And Could Be Better Yet) CONTENTS by Jane S. Shaw JUNE America's biggest secret: Capitalism is good for the environment. 1994 279 How Government Makes Natural Disasters Worse VOL. 44 by Llewellyn H. Rockwell, Jr. NO.6 When natural disasters strike, bureaucrats should just stay home. 282 Ideas and Consequences by Lawrence W. Reed 284 The Fascist Epithet by Mack Tanner We ought to recognize American liberalism for what it is. 288 Economic Fascism by Thomas J. DiLorenzo Government control of nominally private property was always a favorite tool of totalitarians. 294 The Failure of Antitrust Policy by D. T. Armentano Antitrust regulation is based on strange theory and incorrect history. 297 Losing Touch by Donald Boudreaux Politicians, like long-distance bombers, seldom see their "victims." 299 A Tax Deduction for Education by Roy E. Cordata and Sheldon Richman A plan for genuine freedom of choice in education. 302 Now for Some Serious Educational Reform by Tibor R. Machan Compulsory schooling is the root of higher education's problems. 304 By Any Means Necessary? by Robert Zimmerman Political correctness as "justification" for tyranny. 307 The Moral Hazard of Government by Michael R. Duff To government officials, policy failure means political success. 312 What's Wrong with Democracy? by L. Hatzilambrou Democracy only works when government's powers are strictly limited. 316 Is Individualism Dead? by Nelson Hultberg America's greatness depends on freedom and individualism. 320 Correction Please! by Mark Skousen 323 Book Reviews John Chamberlain reviews Reclaiming The American Dream by Richard Cornuelle; Commager on Tocqueville by Henry Steele Commager, reviewed by David M. Brown; Reclaiming the American Right: The Lost Legacy ofthe Conservative Movement by Justin Raimondo, reviewed by Jim Christie; Inside American Education: The Decline, the Deception, the Dogmas by Thomas Sowell, reviewed by Patrick Groff. THEFREEMAN IDEAS ON LIBERlY PERSPECTIVE Published by The Foundation for Economic Education The Power of Paternalism Irvington-on-Hudson, NY 10533 Phone (914) 591-7230 FAX (914) 591-8910 Opium and morphine are certainly dan­ President: Hans F. Sennholz gerous, habit-forming drugs. But once the Managing Editor: Beth A. Hoffman principle is admitted that it is the duty of Guest Editor: Thomas J. DiLorenzo government to protect the individual against Editor Emeritus Paul L. Poirot his own foolishness, no serious objections Lewisburg, Pennsylvania Book Review Editor can be advanced against further encroach­ Robert Batemarco Marymount College, Tarrytown, New York ments. A good case could be made out in Associate Editors favor of the prohibition of alcohol and nic­ John Chamberlain Cheshire, Connecticut otine. And why limit the government's be­ Bettina Bien Greaves Resident Scholar, FEE nevolent providence to the protection ofthe Edmund A. Opitz Chatham, Massachusetts individual's body only? Is not the harm a Columnists man can inflict on his mind and soul even Lawrence W. Reed Mackinac Center for Public Policy more disastrous than any bodily evils? Why Midland, Michigan Mark Skousen not prevent him from reading bad books and Rollins College, Winter Park, Florida Contributing Editors seeing bad plays, from looking at bad paint­ Charles W. Baird ings and statues and from hearing bad mu­ California State University, Hayward Doug Bandow sic? The mischief done by bad ideologies, Cato Institute, Washington, D.C. E. Calvin Beisner surely, is much more pernicious, both for Covenant College, Chattanooga, Tennessee Peter J. Boettke the individual and for the whole society, New York University Clarence B. Carson than that done by narcotic drugs. ... American Textbook Committee It is a fact that no paternal government, Wadley, Alabama Thomas J. DiLorenzo whether ancient or modern, ever shrank Loyola College, Baltimore, Maryland Joseph S. Fulda from regimenting its subjects' minds, be­ New York, New York Roger W. Garrison liefs, and opinions. If one abolishes man's Auburn University Robert Higgs freedom to determine his own consumption, Seattle University John Hospers one takes all freedoms away. University ofSouthern California -LUDWIG VON MISES Los Angeles, California Tibor R. Machan Human Action Auburn University Ronald Nash Reformed Theological Seminary Maitland, Florida James L. Payne Insidious Monopolists Sandpoint, Idaho William H. Peterson Heritage Foundation, Washington, D.C. It has been suggested that, because the Jane S. Shaw Political Economy Research Center (PERC) nominal price of first-class postage is about Bozeman, Montana where it was in the late eighteenth century, Richard H. Timberlake University ofGeorgia Americans who complain about the pro­ Lawrence H. White University ofGeorgia posal to increase postal rates are merely The Freeman is the monthly publication of The Foundation for whining wimps who are lacking in historical Economic Education, Inc., Irvington-on-Hudson, NY 10533. FEE, perspective. established in 1946 by Leonard E. Read, is a non-political, educa­ tional champion of private property, the free market, and limited However, the real price of transportation government. FEE is classified as a 26 USC 501(c)(3) tax-exempt organization. (a key input in postal service) has plum­ Copyright © 1994 by The Foundation for Economic Education. Permission is granted to reprint any article in this issue, except "By meted over the last 200 years. In 1799 it took Any Means Necessary?" provided appropriate credit is given and two copies of the reprinted material are sent to The Foundation. 53 days for an Army courier to travel from The costs of Foundation projects and services are met through donations, which are invited in any amount. Donors of$25.oo ormore Detroit to Pittsburgh. Today the same trip receive a subscription to The Freeman. Student subscriptions are $10.00 for the nine-month academic year; $5.00 per semester. can conveniently be made in minutes. Additional copies of single issues of The Freeman are $2.00. For foreign delivery, a donation of $40.00 a year is suggested to cover Likewise, the productive efficiency ofthe mailing costs. Bound volumes ofThe Freeman are available from The Foundation United States is vastly greater now than it for calendar years 1972 to date. The Freeman is available in microform from University Microfilms, 300 North Zeeb Road, Ann was even a few decades ago. Given the Arbor, MI 48106. plunge in transportation costs, joined with 274 PERSPECTIVE other technological improvements and a responsibility or punishment for what he large increase in the scale ofpostal activity, does. He claims he cannot control his de­ the price of postage should have fallen sires; he is a victim, so it is perfectly dramatically. permissible to finagle food stamps, welfare, Americans do not oppose postal-rate in­ a job, or a corporate subsidy. creases because of their ignorance of his­ The Mass Man, Ortega y Gasset states, tory. Rather, opposition to these increases "does not want to give reasons or to be grows from the correct perception that a right, but simply shows himself resolved to legally protected monopolist such as the impose his opinions. .. ." He has" decided United States Postal Service can keep prices to rule society without the capacity for doing higher, and service inferior, to what they so.... He wishes to have opinions, but is would be under competition. unwilling to accept the conditions and pre­ Regardless of how today's postal rates suppositions that underlie all opinion." The compare with rates in the past, opening the Mass Man of 1994 sees no connection be­ delivery of first-class mail to competition tween the rising crime rate and the teaching would lower rates still further while improv­ of relative morality. ing service. Ortega y Gasset's Mass Man's ideas -DON BOUDREAUX and GEORGE SELGIN "hardly reflect in any way the reality to in a letter to The New York Times which they appear to refer and.... there is not even an attempt to adjust the ideas to this reality. [He] is trying to cut off any Ortega's Mass Man Redux personal vision ofreality. It does not worry him that his ideas are not true." Such a man In his 1932 book, The Revolt of the considers humans as ants or creatures that Masses, the Spanish philosopher Jose Or­ exist for the state without any inherent tega y Gasset defined the average or mass value. man as one who''in face ofany problem, is According to Ortega y Gasset, "There is satisfied with thinking the first thing he finds not to be found . a single group whose in his head." Ortega's Mass Man is with us attitude to life is not limited to believing that today in the person ofthe average man who it has all the rights and none of the obliga­ believes what he reads in the latest headlines tions." That perfectly describes the Mass or sees on the network news. Man of 1994. He doesn't want to be bothered with the The superficial, non-thinking Mass Man details or further analysis of the facts. The seems to be present and threatening not only Mass Man, according to Ortega y Gasset, in Ortega's day and ourown, but throughout "will tend to consider.and affirm as good recorded history. He appears whenever everything he finds within himself: opinions, thinking man abdicates his responsibilities appetites, preferences, tastes. ... He has and relies on someone else to perform his no wish to find the truth; he is intellectually duties. a barbarian. " This man accepts no personal -CHARLES RODA 275 THEFREEMAN IDEAS ON LIBERTY THINGS ARE BEITER THAN WE THINK (AND COULD BE BETTER YET) by Jane S. Shaw o an objective observer, Americans' sure), the loss has about as much impact on T attitudes toward the environment must skin cancer as moving south sixty miles, for be puzzling.
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