“To disarm the people is the best and most effectual way to enslave them." -George Mason - Father of the Bill of… — Mark Goodwin Copy Share Image
“Lots of people wrote to the magazine to say that Marilyn vos Savant was wrong, even when she explained very carefully why… — Mark Haddon Copy Share Image
“And shall we at last become the victims of our own abominable lust of gain? Forbid it, Heaven." Washington himself could be… — Ron Chernow Copy Share Image
“THE ADULT BRAIN, it turns out, is not just plastic but, as James Olds, a professor of neuroscience who directs the Krasnow… — Nicholas Carr Copy Share Image
“While these tax cuts starved the government, George Mason also belittled its role philosophically. A star on its faculty was James Buchanan,… — Jane Mayer Copy Share Image
“George Mason’s economics department, meanwhile, became a hotbed of controversial theories that began to transform Americans’ tax bills, serving as an incubator… — Jane Mayer Copy Share Image
At George Mason University I saw Hoppe present a lecture in which he claimed that Ludwig von Mises had set the intellectual… — Tom G. Palmer Copy Share Image
“But George Mason still had concerns; he reasoned that though Congress would have had to call up the militia and the army,… — Brion T. McClanahan Copy Share Image
“To disarm the people is the best and most effectual way to enslave them..." -George Mason” — George Mason Copy Share Image
“Two centuries ago, the United States settled into a permanent political order, after fourteen years of violence and heated debate. Two centuries… — Russell Kirk Copy Share Image
“That the people have a Right to mass and to bear arms; that a well-regulated militia composed of the Body of the… — Mark Goodwin Copy Share Image
“George Mason was the Kochs’ largest libertarian academic project but far from the only one. By 2015, according to an internal list,… — Jane Mayer Copy Share Image