Cheers to the governors of Alabama and Virginia for sending back millions of dollars earmarked for the "Goals 2000" program slated to be imposed on their states' schools. After decades of federal attacks on local control, they have responded to voter demands that school centralization be halted.
There is no reason for taxpayers to support trips to the moon, particle physics, or any other research not directly serving defense against external or internal aggression, the core function of government. Funds for basic research can be allocated by the market.
Project Head Start is supposed to be the exception to the Great Society rule—a welfare program that actually works.
The Free Market Reader (Ludwig von Mises Institute, 1988) is a 400-page collection of 76 articles, most of which first appeared in the Free Market newsletter. Since 1982, the Mises Institute has used this medium to promote economic understanding to the general public (although academics like myself enjoy it too). The purpose is to educate people about the need to rid society of the impoverishment and injustice caused by the government.
Under the surface, Poland is seething with anti-government ferment. And the works of Ludwig von Mises and his students are part of the reason—testimony once again to the potency of truth.
Mrs. Mises delivered this speech on February 27, 1984, at the Mises Institute dinner in her honor in New York City.
