This issue of The Freeman explains why freedom outperforms socialism, showing how voluntary exchange, personal responsibility, and entrepreneurship create prosperity while intervention breeds distortion and dependency. It critiques U.S. farm programs for worsening the very instability they seek to cure, analyzes the conflict between “comparable worth” mandates and civil liberty, and defends profit as a moral outcome of serving others. Additional essays explore the power of language to shape political thought, present a dynamic theory of entrepreneurship, and reaffirm the importance of natural rights, private property, and the wisdom of the Founders. Book reviews consider works on economic growth, political ideology, and American public life.
