The Ongoing Destruction of the Minds of Children by Gary D. Barnett March 1, 2019 There can be no greater stretch of arbitrary power than to seize children from their parents, teach them whatever the authorities decree they shall be taught, and expropriate from the parents the funds to pay for the procedure. — Isabel Paterson Compulsory schooling is a travesty. To call it education is absurd. Real education is lifelong learning as an individual, while ...
Pull That Veil Away! by Leonard Read March 1, 2019 Combatting statism is not, as many assume, a project in propaganda; it is, instead, a probing operation. The problem is not one of merely getting others to grasp the little we already know; it is far more a matter of discovering that which we ourselves do not yet understand. A major area of exploration, of course, is to find new ...
Understanding the JFK Assassination, Part 5 by Jacob G. Hornberger February 1, 2019 This series will be published in a forthcoming book. Details to follow.
Washington’s Biggest Fairy Tale: “Truth Will Out” by James Bovard February 1, 2019 The arrest of Julian Assange has produced rapturous cheering from the American political elite. Hillary Clinton declared that Assange “must answer for what he has done.” Unfortunately, Assange’s arrest will do nothing to prevent the vast majority of conniving politicians and bureaucrats from paying no price for deceiving the American public. “Truth will out” is a phrase that is routinely ...
Equal Employment Opportunity Is Bad Law by Laurence M. Vance February 1, 2019 Everyone who works a job has seen the same poster on a wall or a bulletin board at his place of employment: Equal Employment Opportunity Is THE LAW. (The last two words are usually in all caps and in a much larger font and in a different color than the first four words.) The poster The poster says that applicants to ...
Abolish the Welfare State to Solve the National Debt Crisis by Richard M. Ebeling February 1, 2019 Why is it so difficult to win the case for freedom in modern American society? A variety of possible answers come to mind. The collectivists are more effective in appealing to people’s emotions. The interventionist-welfare-statist argument is easier to make than it is to follow the logical chains of reasoning required to make the free-market case. Socialist-leaning teachers and ...
Bin Laden Won by Matthew Harwood February 1, 2019 Fool’s Errand: Time to End the War in Afghanistan by Scott Horton (Chicago: The Libertarian Institute, 2017); 317 pages. According to official U.S. government accounts, the body of Osama bin Laden slid off the deck of the aircraft carrier USS Carl Vinson into his watery grave in the Indian Ocean sometime on the morning of May ...
Understanding the JFK Assassination, Part 4 by Jacob G. Hornberger January 1, 2019 This series will be published in a forthcoming book. Details to follow.
Truth Is an Outlaw in Washington by James Bovard January 1, 2019 “Truth isn’t truth,” declared Rudy Giuliani, Donald Trump’s personal attorney, on Meet the Press last August. Giuliani’s comment was the “Trump era’s epitaph,” according to a Washington Post columnist. But truth really is defined differently inside the Beltway — when it is not in total hiding. Trump could face a “perjury trap” from Special Counsel Robert Mueller because of the ...
Your Tax Dollars at Work by Laurence M. Vance January 1, 2019 We have all seen the signs. They might be referring to a road-widening project, a new city or county park, sidewalks being repaired, new airport terminals being constructed, potholes being filled in, additional trees being planted, or some sort of downtown development. But regardless of the project, the signs are usually the same: Your Tax Dollars at Work. Now, it ...
Liberal Internationalism: True and False, Part 2 by Richard M. Ebeling January 1, 2019 Part 1 | Part 2 The classical liberal international order of the nineteenth century was not planned or designed by anyone. It was, for the most part, the natural outgrowth of the expanding influence of a new political philosophy of freedom, free markets, and free trade. It began to emerge in the wake of the twenty-five years of war ...
The Little House on the Prairie of Laura Ingalls Wilder by Wendy McElroy January 1, 2019 Prairie Fires: The American Dreams of Laura Ingalls Wilder by Caroline Fraser (Metropolitan Books, 2017); 625 pages. Prairie Fires: The American Dreams of Laura Ingalls Wilder, by Caroline Fraser, is one of the finest biographies I have read, and a fully deserving winner of the 2018 Pulitzer Prize for Biography. Prairie Fires is the definitive depiction ...