ABOUT
Why is freedom in retreat?
In President Lincoln's address at Gettysburg we are called upon to secure liberty's new birth. This is the work of securing it.
THE CASE FOR FREE MARKETS OUGHT TO BE AN EASY ONE….
After all, liberty holds an inherent advantage: it actually works.
And yet freedom is in retreat. It is tempting to lay that at the feet of others, and we will not. Liberty has not been taken from us. It has been managed badly by us — by those of us who profess to believe in it.
Look honestly at the account. Too many Americans are without homes. Too many work and remain poor. Too many live with an unease they may or may not be able to name. And abroad, we have not always wielded our power justly. These are not the failures of our opponents. They are ours, and a movement unwilling to say so has no business asking anyone to trust it.
So the question this site asks is not what they must stop doing. It is what we have done poorly, and what we must do better.
Engagement, education, and persuasion are hard work.
Which is why so little of it is done — by us as much as by anyone. It is easier to say what people wish to hear than to tell them the truth. It is easier still to say nothing. And it is easiest of all to blame the other side.
Here we commit ourselves to the truth and to the labor of it — the engagement, the education, the persuasion — because we believe it is the only way the nation's greatest problems will be solved.
HOW WE WORK
A standard you can hold us to.
Plain language If an argument cannot be made so that anyone may follow it, it has not been understood well enough to publish.
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The opposing case, stated fairly Every position here is set against the strongest argument opposing it, put in a form its own best advocate would sign.
Corrections in the open When we are wrong we say so, on the page where we were wrong, with the date we learned of it.
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