Reprinted from LewRockwell.com The recent opening of the Ron Paul Institute for Peace and Prosperity was a watershed moment in American history. There has never been anything quite like it. Ideologically diverse, the Ron Paul Institute reaches out to all
Reprinted from LewRockwell.com William Kristol knows what is wrong with the United States. As he wrote recently in the flagship magazine of the neo-conservatives, the Weekly Standard, the problem with the US is that we seem to have lost our
Reprinted from LewRockwell.com Last year more US troops died by suicide than died in combat in Afghanistan. More than 20 percent of military personnel deployed to combat will develop post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD). Some 32 percent of US soldiers reported
To swindle is to achieve something by fraud or deceit. In stereotype form, the swindler is a snake oil salesman who promises miracles in a jar for an extra low price. While this sly vendor might be seen as unsavory
Failure to distinguish between the private person and state action is always a recipe for muddled thinking. This is especially so in regard to the conduct of war. Though it can occur between any cluster of persons, war is characteristically
The anarcho-capitalist movement appears to be tweaking the interest of the young leftist movement, which historically represents the radical side of the political spectrum. Maybe the time has come for “revolutionary politics.†In his 1969 essay, “The Death of Politicsâ€,
[This article is excerpted from Liberalism, Chapter 3] 4. Nationalism As long as nations were ruled by monarchical despots, the idea of adjusting the boundaries of the state to coincide with the boundaries between nationalities could not find acceptance. If
Last June the New York Times ran an article adapted from a book by David E. Sanger which revealed that within the first few months of his administration, U.S. President Barack Obama ordered a ramping up of the federal government’s
To mark the 11year anniversary of the Afghanistan occupation, the death toll for the U.S. military reached two thousand. The soldier who had the misfortune of both dying and becoming a stark symbol of America’s longest running war died under
As Reuters reported last week, the United Nations nuclear watchdog, the International Atomic Energy Agency, has confirmed that while the Iranian government is still enriching uranium at an increasing rate, there is no evidence of a weapons program under development.Â
Reprinted from LewRockwell.com PROLOGUE In 1951, during the Korean War, I wrote a pamphlet entitled Conscience on the Battlefield. War “as a means to peace among nations” was then, and remains, a world-wide fallacy. Today, small wars go on in
[Excerpted from It's a Jetsons World (2011). An MP3 audio file of this article, narrated by Steven Ng, is available for download.] Ludwig von Mises summed up the essence of government in words that are particularly vivid in wartime: Government
The path to what could be World War III showed no signs of stopping today. You know it’s kleptocracy when one of the heads of the federal government openly appeases perhaps the most influential and financially flush lobbying groups in
["War, Peace, and the State." The Standard, April 1963, pp. 2-5; 15-16, and Egalitarianism as a Revolt Against Nature and Other Essays, R.A. Child, Jr., Ed., Washington: Libertarian Review Press, 1974; 2nd edition, Auburn, Alabama: Mises Institute, 2000, pp. 115-132.
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