During the fury and carnage of World War I, little thought was given to two shots fired from a small pistol on a leafy suburban street in Sarajevo that killed Archduke Ferdinand and his wife. Gavrilo Princip acquired fame as the man who started World War I only after the upheaval was over and historians had the leisure to trace causes from
Well, how about that? In an interview for Britain’s Daily Telegraph on a lot of other subjects, Antonin Scalia offered, perhaps without invitation, his opinion on the prominence of laws and (hence) lawyers in his country. It’s at the very end of this article , and he notes that law is the major seemingly chosen in college by all of America’s best
Though the British mainstream media buried this story for as long as they could, this three-minute speech by Daniel Hannan, a member of the European Parliament, attacking the economic policies of British Labor-Party Prime Minister Gordon Brown, garnered over 2 million viewers through the Internet. That such a speech arouses this much interest
“The best conceived and most desirable solution to the Austrian question is a monarchy with the legacy of the Habsburger tradition.” [Memo to Otto von Habsburg, dated New York, April 20, 1942, and never before published] Response to His Majesty’s Interrogatory The term “legitimism” is usually used for a claim to power that is unrelated to the
The US government’s hypocritical, ill-conceived legislation of accounting morality known as the Oxley-Sarbanes Act has sparked a “deregistration” movement among European and other non-US firms that have registered with US stock exchanges for listing of their shares. This is described in a Wall Street Journal article that reports a reversal of the
The report on the front page of today’s (Monday’s) Wall Street Journal of political correctness in natural science goes a long way to explain the penetration of the state and its agents into the science of economics. The wistful affectation of positivist economists to ape the physical sciences seems more misplaced than ever in light of this
The population of India is expected to eclipse that of today’s largest country, China, by about 2010. So the “social safety net” now being mooted in India will move that country down the road to collectivism by a vast quantum. The article in The Economist came complete with accounts of Victorian sensibilities in such matters from the reign of the
Today’s proposal by the administration that brought us (and them) interminable war in the Middle East to greatly increase the death benefit for combatants may incent American soldiers to take more risks in battle, especially on bad days. While this could improve their effectiveness against opponents who themselves sometimes seem to value their
The Economist for February 5 contains an article that, for many of us, introduces a novel mode of production: sharing. While voluntary (without which it would be confiscation, not sharing), this mode of exchange seems to abjure not only counterexchanges of money, but any and all kinds of formal bookkeeping of the sort that normally accompanies
Tonight on the Las Vegas Review-Journal’s Web site, the most-e-mailed article is “Lecture Causes Dispute” concerning Hans-Hermann Hoppe. Wonder whom all those e-mails are going to . . . Mine went to a very vocal friend of mine who lives in Las
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