Displaying items by tag: Friedrich von Hayek

Today’s progressivism is a bore. The constant demand for more and more government spending places progressivism on a path toward destruction. Debt, inflation, and a diminished existence for the citizenry — that’s all the result of constant cries for more and more spending and government action. Shouldn’t we be asking more profound questions about what the purpose of government is and what it can really do for us? 

“Wherever books are burned,” wrote the German journalist and poet Heinrich Heine, “men in the end will also burn.”