This issue reports on the military’s successful integration effort, using it as a case study in voluntary social progress, and contrasts it with coercive government activism. Contributors defend market-based environmental protection, warn that employee-ownership mandates threaten free enterprise, and explore the resilience of liberty amid political pressures. The issue also recounts the struggles faced by foster families and highlights international advances in classical-liberal education.

This issue profiles the life of an immigrant writer and considers the distinctions between democracy and economic freedom. Essays trace the expanding scope of government, defend futures markets, and show how property-based decision-making enhances long-term economic health. Other topics include municipal competition with private enterprise, misguided compassion in social policy, misconceptions about the Social Security trust fund, and the benefits of free trade.

This issue critiques the intrusive expansion of census data collection and calls for a renewal of genuine community spirit grounded in voluntary cooperation. Articles explore moral steadfastness in the face of government overreach, analyze local school-budget politics, and challenge new airline-safety mandates. Discussions of aquaculture, market formation, public safety, and the connection between rights, law, and morality round out the issue.

This issue warns of the cultural decline produced by educational doctrines that sever students from the intellectual heritage of liberty. Contributors call for a new generation to defend freedom, argue that compassion should not be politicized, and examine the tax code’s manipulation of family life. Additional essays critique comparable-worth policy, defend competition in cable television, assess the legitimacy of the right to strike, and expose government’s failure to uphold voluntary contracts.

This issue exposes the true causes of the savings-and-loan collapse, arguing that political design flaws and regulatory distortions—not merely banker misconduct—produced the crisis. Additional essays document the rapid growth of state and local government in the 1980s, critique the ideological aims of the modern environmental movement, and warn against pseudo-markets, state–business “cooperation,” and misguided energy-price controls. The issue also challenges Sweden’s status as a model for reforming socialist nations and revisits the nature and limits of governmental authority.

This issue opens with Leonard Read’s reflections on living a life worthy of being written about, followed by a dramatic firsthand account of life in China during the 1989 crackdown and the pervasive corruption of the guanxi system. Other essays dispute claims about constitutional mandates, trace the deep roots of political corruption, rebut the slogan “socialism works,” and argue that affirmative action undermines a free and open society. The issue concludes with book reviews and the full index for 1990.

This issue examines the case for a revived creed of voluntarism, arguing that only voluntary action—not political force—can sustain a free and compassionate society. Additional essays clarify widespread misunderstandings about government debt, assess the destructive incentives created by deficit spending, and recount early encounters with campus fellow-travelers in the 1940s. The issue also analyzes modernization under central planning, the moral foundations of individualism, charitable giving, and the political rise of Japanese women.

This issue warns of new threats to freedom of the press, defends property rights as the foundation of all other rights, and explores how businesses adapt to changing consumer demands. Additional articles revisit the 1946 voter revolt against regulation, profile Wilhelm von Humboldt as a classical-liberal thinker, and consider the moral legitimacy of immigration policies. Essays on agriculture, cultural decline, utopianism, organizational behavior, and debates over wealth distributions round out the issue.

This issue of The Freeman examines the destructive consequences of state subsidies to private schools, the moral roots of social and political order, and the dangers of expanding government power under the banner of anti-discrimination. It also explores why Communism collapsed, how foreign investment benefits Americans, and how unions and regulatory structures distort free exchange. Additional essays analyze ecology vs. socialism, freedom of association, and the economics of development.

This issue of The Freeman explores the moral discipline required for a free society, the seductive but dangerous allure of political revolution, and Albania’s survival as Europe’s last unreformed Marxist state. It also evaluates whether war can revive weak economies, the roots of America’s liability crisis, the case for re-legalizing drugs, and Mises’s arguments for economic education. Additional articles examine Medicare’s unsustainable promises, spontaneous order, and the tensions created when the state attempts to reshape society.

This issue outlines five steps for transforming command economies, evaluates the challenges facing reunified Germany, and critiques workplace-safety regulation for producing unintended harm. Other essays explore the consequences of granting legal privileges to particular groups, question subsidies for higher education, and analyze the moral incentives underlying human behavior. Additional topics include municipal transit, the power of ideas, property rights, bureaucratic waste, and the relationship between wealth and innovation.

This issue explores the so-called “garbage crisis,” arguing that market incentives—not mandates—provide real solutions to solid-waste management. Essays examine the moral hazards of the welfare state, challenge claims that capitalism corrupts the church, and review the dynamics of price controls, dumping, and government intervention. The issue also includes an eyewitness account of Communist violence in Beijing and book reviews on poverty, the market economy, capitalism, and Soviet socialism.