The Myth of National Guilt
If we insist on "collective" responsibility assigned to entire nations, then we must naturally punish the innocent along with the guilty.
If we insist on "collective" responsibility assigned to entire nations, then we must naturally punish the innocent along with the guilty.
"The reality must be faced that the new…colony of Pennsylvania lived for the greater part of four years in a de facto condition of individual anarchism, and seemed none the worse for the experience."
The year 1898 was a landmark in American history. It was the year America went to war with Spain—our first engagement with a foreign enemy in the dawning age of modern warfare. Aside from a few scant periods of retrenchment, we have been embroiled in foreign politics ever since.
Rothbard took the American Revolution to be mainly libertarian in its inspiration, but he contends that the libertarian impulses of the Revolution were betrayed by a centralizing coup d’état. If Rothbard is right, the Constitution as written provides ample scope for tyranny.
Part V: The Nationalists Triumph: The Constitution Ratified. Narrated by Millian Quinteros.
Part V: The Nationalists Triumph: The Constitution Ratified. Narrated by Millian Quinteros.
Part I: The Economic Legacy of the American Revolution. Narrated by Millian Quinteros.
Part VI: The Nationalists Triumph: The Constitution’s Legacy. Narrated by Millian Quinteros.
Part I: The Economic Legacy of the American Revolution. Narrated by Millian Quinteros.