This issue explores inconsistencies in classical liberal arguments for state education, highlights points of agreement between Catholic thought and free-market principles, and illustrates how market prices convey information more clearly than conversation. Contributors analyze the politics of multiculturalism, the dangers of estate taxation, the evidence behind tax-rate cuts, and the incentives driving government expansion. Essays also examine happiness under a minimal state, failures in the “iron triangle” of politics, and Macaulay’s extraordinary advocacy of liberty.
