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To: narses
Re: Hayek's "Road to Serfdom"
Milton Friedman writes in the introduction, "I use the term "liberal"...in the original nineteenth-century sense of limited government and free markets, not in the corrupted sense it has acquired in the United States, in which it means almost the opposite".

There used to be a time when a "liberal arts" education would have taught students the classics, including critical thinking skills. Now, the socialist professors have corrupted the minds of the latter-day baby boomers and generations "X" and "Y".

Liberal Arts now means creating, identifying, and using the government to protect society's "victims", why Republicans are mean, stupid, and evil geniuses, and how to braid your underarm hair (for womb-en only).

Allan Bloom covered the subject of the loss of a true liberal education in his book, "The Closing of the American Mind".
29 posted on 07/10/2004 9:29:17 AM PDT by LA Conservative (The Fourth Estate is the Fifth Column)
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To: LA Conservative
Milton Friedman writes in the introduction, "I use the term "liberal"...in the original nineteenth-century sense of limited government and free markets,

It also encompassed the sovereignty of the individual. Gone are those days.

32 posted on 07/10/2004 10:08:34 AM PDT by DumpsterDiver
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