Classical Liberalism and Religion
Originally by Edmund Opitz in the November 1985 issue of The Freeman. Classical liberalism created a revolutionary new view of …
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Defending Freedom and the Free Society
Originally by Edmund Opitz, published in the January 1993 edition of The Freeman. —- Countless generations of men have lived …
Biblical Roots of American Liberty
Originally by Edmund Opitz in the July 1991 (41) edition of The Freeman. —- The First Amendment to the Constitution …
Economics Has the Answer: What’s the Question?
By Edmund Opitz. Adam Smith’s monumental achievement was to enlarge the individual person’s freedom of action in economic affairs, and …
Churches and the Social Order
By Edmund Opitz. The church plays an important role in human life. It was once the unwritten rule in polite …
Defending Freedom and the Free Society
By Edmund Opitz. Countless generations of men have lived in unfree societies, but many men dreamed of freedom and hoped …
Ethics and Business
Business and the businessman have had a bad press, almost uniformly. Do you remember the television show whose hero was a businessman? The show that portrayed this businessman as a person of integrity and vision, who labored long hours to produce a product that supplied a genuine need, which he marketed at prices people could afford? Who treated his employees with generosity and consideration, and his customers with unfailing courtesy? Who was a devoted family man, active in civic affairs, and a churchman?
Freedom and Majority Rule
By Edmund Opitz Lord Northcliffe, the publisher of the London Times, came to this country a few years after World …
Black Magic
By Edmund Opitz Every individual tries to economize his energies by satisfying his needs and desires with a minimum of …
Perspectives on Religion and Capitalism
By Edmund Opitz The two major terms in my title are subject to extravagant misunderstanding and occasional abuse. Some of …
Architects of Leviathan
By Edmund Opitz Opitz delivered this paper in October 1973 before Hillsdale College students and faculty during “Political Morality: From …
The Nobility of the Bourgeoisie
By Edmund Opitz If the man from Mars were to ask any one of us to point out the business …
Liberalism Used to Mean Freedom
Life is not a mere game. Living is a lot more complex than any sport, but life and games are analogous in at least one respect: Neither is possible without an appropriate set of rules to be followed. It’s the rule book which determines the character of a game, and no game is even conceivable without one. To throw out the rule book is to forsake the game. By the same token, if we ignore, or deny, or break, or improperly identify, the ethical ground rules for flourishing human life, then the quality of life — individual and social —will decline.