[ The Politics of Hunger: Allied Blockade of Germany, 1915-1919 • By C. Paul Vincent • Ohio University Press (1985) • 185 pages. This review was first published in the Review of Austrian Economics 3, no. 1.] States throughout history have persisted in severely encumbering and even prohibiting international trade. Seldom, however, can the
[This lecture was given by the Swiss-French thinker Benjamin Constant in 1819. The French title is “De la liberté des anciens comparée à celle des modernes.”] Introduction by Ralph Raico “He loved liberty as other men love power,” was the judgment passed on Benjamin Constant by a 19th-century admirer. His great public concern, all throughout his
Originally published at LewRockwell.com. 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 ,
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