Today’s Jewish Taliban is not the Israel I grew up in. Israel has rendered Gaza a “ moonscape in war ,” uninhabitable for years to come, reduced to rubble by “the most intense air campaigns in the modern record .” Not only is Israel murdering tens of thousands of Gaza’s civilians–22,313 Palestinians to date (Via Ha’aretz Israel News, Wednesday,
If you know in advance that your actions will cause the death of thousands of civilians; attached to your criminal actions ( actus reus ) is a guilty mind ( mens rea ) , which means malice aforethought , also known as intent, in Western jurisprudence and judicial philosophy. The razing of Gaza and the ongoing murder of tens of thousands of
In their recent military campaigns, America and Israel have waged what to the inexpert, keen observer is largely old-fashioned, Third-Generation Warfare —a blitzkrieg , by any other name, against civilian populations. The ostensible use of “tanks, mechanized infantry, and close air support” to “collapse an enemy’s defenses” are really unthinking,
The article “Prosperity Requires Freedom” ( blogged here ) is typical of the WSJ’s naiveté about cultural context. It’s this very “innocence,” pinpointed so well by Peter Brimelow, which prompted WSJ editorialist Paul Gigot to venture that a million Zulus would be better immigrants to the US than the same number of Englishmen. Having been born and
Not a day goes by when the liberal media don’t telegraph to the world that a “ Trumpocracy ” is destroying American democracy. Conspicuous by its absence is a pesky fact: Ours was never a country conceived as a democracy. To arrive at a democracy, we Americans destroyed a republic. One of the ways in which the republic was destroyed was through
“This is just a truly astonishing moment coming from the White House podium,” tweeted MSNBC’s Kasie Hunt. Like the rest of the media pack-animals she hunts with, Ms. Hunt had been fuming over President Trump’s telephone call to Vladimir Putin, congratulating him on winning another term as president. Reliably opposed to a truce were party heavies
I recently traveled to Texas to speak about South Africa , at the Free Speech Forum of the Texas A & M University. To travel from the Pacific Northwest all the way to College Station, Texas , without experiencing more of the “Lone Star State” was not an option. So, after driving from Austin eastward to College Station (where I was hosted by two
First came the Republican memo, courtesy of the Republican House Intelligence Committee chairman Devin Nunes. Their memo detailed the surveillance abuses against one Carter Page, enabled by a kangaroo court which was strengthened immeasurably by the old Republican-Party boss, George Bush. Bush II had fortified the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance
Dear President Carol C. Harter, U niversities are supposed to contribute to the development of character in their young charges. All too often they prefer to breed spineless, spoilt youngsters, forever poised to receive offence and ever eager to deploy Soviet-style procedures to destroy careers and reputations. The complaining student was offended
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The Mises Institute is a non-profit organization that exists to promote teaching and research in the Austrian School of economics, individual freedom, honest history, and international peace, in the tradition of Ludwig von Mises and Murray N. Rothbard.
Non-political, non-partisan, and non-PC, we advocate a radical shift in the intellectual climate, away from statism and toward a private property order. We believe that our foundational ideas are of permanent value, and oppose all efforts at compromise, sellout, and amalgamation of these ideas with fashionable political, cultural, and social doctrines inimical to their spirit.
