Monday, November 2, 2009

Neo-Liberalism and Latin America

I've been asked to write something regarding neo-liberalism in Latin America for a friend. It's a paying gig, so I'm naturally excited, but what to say, what to say and what was so wrong with the classical liberalism, anyways?


Have a look at how awesome liberalism in immigration has been for the world's poor. I have a suspicion that it has been much better for the poor than any foreign aid scheme designed.

Matt Spaulding's New Book Profiled in National Review

Matthew Spaulding, CMC alum, wrote a new book, We Still Hold These Truths: Rediscovering Our Principles, Reclaiming Our Future that is the subject of a profile in National Review.


I've been reading Race and Liberty in America: The Essential Reader by Jonathan Bean about how it's really been these classically liberal thinkers, grounded in natural law, that have been able to offer a compelling alternative to the statism and de facto racism of progressives like FDR and Woodrow Wilson.