Bush's Ownership Society: Why No One's Buying. (cover story)

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  • Author(s): Glastris, Paul
  • Source:
    Washington Monthly. Dec2005, Vol. 37 Issue 12, p14-19. 6p. 1 Black and White Photograph.
  • Additional Information
    • Subject Terms:
      INTELLECTUALS; CONSERVATIVES; FRIEDMAN, Milton, 1912-2006; BIRTH control; ECONOMIC policy
    • Subject Terms:
      UNITED StatesReport Available
    • Abstract:
      The article looks at how conservative intellectuals in the U.S. have seized on formerly liberal ideas and make it their own. Such is the case with the issue of choice and individual empowerment. Those very concepts used to be associated with liberal causes like abortion and voting rights. But over the last couple of decades, conservative intellectuals have roped them to a larger agenda to revolutionize government. Conservative intellectuals explains that big government and individual freedom are opposed to each other. More of the one means less of the other. The most influential conservative economists on the issue of government spending is Milton Friedman.