More troubling news from the regime that we were so assured would bring all good things to Ukraine. So that’s 3 for 3: corruption, Socialism , bankruptcy .
From my 1980 article, which seems oddly relevant today: “Libertarians are not ‘against’ tradition. But we make certain elementary distinctions. It is time conservatives like van den Haag began doing likewise – starting with the distinction between the traditions that mankind has voluntarily generated and preserved, and those stemming from
News item: “Britain is to become the first country in the world where the movements of all vehicles on the roads are recorded. A new national surveillance system will hold the records for at least two
In the popular academic mind, the doctrine of class-conflict seems to be inextricably linked to the particular Marxist version of the idea. Lip-service is often paid - especially by those eager to diminish the claims to originality of Marx and Engels - to the fact that these writers had precursors in this approach to social reality. Frequently a
I’m would like to add my voice to the celebration over the publication of Mises: The Last Knight of Liberalism . It is a magnificent work of scholarship, not only definitive on Mises’s life and works, but also brilliantly delineating the Vienna of the time, the development of the Austrian school, the place of other thinkers like Hayek, and Mises’s
New Individualist Review 1, no. 4 (Winter 1962) THOSE AMERICANS WHO belong to the sophisticated academic circles which continue, in their hearts, to look on Communism as largely a myth invented by the John Birch Society ought to take a trip to Berlin. Here they will be able to ascertain for themselves that Communism does, indeed, exist. Hardly
The most spectacular episode of Harry Truman’s presidency will never be forgotten but will be forever linked to his name: the atomic bombings of Hiroshima on August 6, 1945, and of Nagasaki three days later. Probably around two hundred thousand persons were killed in the attacks and through radiation poisoning; the vast majority were civilians,
[Excerpted from “Harry S. Truman: Advancing the Revolution,” in Reassessing the Presidency: The Rise of the Executive State and the Decline of Freedom ] A “Near-Great”? When Harry Truman left office in January 1953, he was intensely unpopular, even widely despised. Many of his most cherished schemes, from national health insurance (socialized
Ira Levin’s gift is no longer what it once was, to judge from his recent Son of Rosemary and his Sliver a few years back. Still, we are permanently in Levin’s debt. For decades he produced some of the most exciting and intelligent page-turners in the business — A Kiss Before Dying , Rosemary’s Baby , The Stepford Wives , and The Boys from Brazil .
[Introduction to Great Wars and Great Leaders (2010).] The king of Prussia, Frederick II (”the Great”), confessed that he had seized the province of Silesia from the Empress Maria Theresa in 1740 because, as a newcomer to the throne, he had to make a name for himself. This initiated a war with Austria that developed into a worldwide war (in North
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