Justin Raimondo, a media fellow of the Mises Institute, has been writing a daily column since the Balkan war began. His analysis of why the U.S. is involved in this conflict is particularly compelling. See his extended treatment on Why the War? .
[This monograph is part of a series that is being distributed, complements of the Mises Institute, in hard copy with book purchases from the store .] John T. Flynn — journalist, author, and master polemicist of the Old Right — is highly unusual. He started out as a liberal columnist for that flagship of American liberalism, the New Republic, and
This selection is from Justin Raimondo’s 1995 introduction to Rothbard’s monograph Wall Street, Banks, and American Foreign Policy , in which Rothbard further develops libertarian class analysis in an examination of how “big business” and other monied elites have consistently controlled American domestic and foreign policy to the detriment of free
The Free Market 14, no. 1 (January 1996) Once again, a national gay rights bill is before Congress, with the difference that, this time, it has President Clinton’s endorsement. For the first time, an American President has put the power and prestige of his office behind a gay version of the 1964 Civil Rights Act, to outlaw discrimination against
The Free Market 14, no. 7 (July 1996) The rise in oil prices provoked a frenzy of opportunistic posturing by politicians of both parties. Yet neither Clinton nor Dole will acknowledge the real reasons for sustained high prices—taxes and environmental regulations designed to keep prices high—or the reason for the newest price rise itself. Both
The Free Market 14, no. 12 (December 1996) The excuses given for big government take many forms. But NASA has surely come up with something unique in world history. They are trying to convince us that there is life on Mars, that we’d better speed our way there to find out more, and that’s why they need more of your money. Richard Zare of
The Free Market 15, no. 1 (January 1997) The furor over the supposed racism of Texaco’s management dramatizes, in miniature, the tragedy and danger of so-called civil-rights legislation. The Texaco story paints a vivid picture of what we’ve become: an economy distorted and abused by a racial spoils system, in which race is pitted against race,
The Free Market 16, no. 4 (April 1998) Among the conventional weapons in the arsenal of the modern Warfare State, none is crueler or more indiscriminate than economic sanctions. While a bomb, missile, or other military ordnance can devastate an entire neighborhood in a moment, the slow death of economic strangulation can so degrade an entire
The Free Market 16, no. 7 (July 1998) It was a news story to end all news stories—literally. The announcement that a giant asteroid was headed for the vicinity of the earth caused a momentary sensation. Dr. Brian G. Marsden, director of the Central Bureau of Astronomical Telegrams, informed the media that an asteroid would pass within 30,000
Prior to World War I, liberals held two guiding principles: distrust of Big Business and opposition to war. As the approach of World War II darkened the political horizon, the American Left’s hatred of capitalism and embrace of “democracy” overwhelmed its traditional abhorrence of war. Volume 10, Number 2 (1992) Raimondo, Justin. “Metaphor In
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