For millions of Americans the Second Amendment and its right for the individual to bear arms appears irrelevant and practically anachronistic. It seems a throwback to those earlier days of the Wild West, ...
The Second World War is considered America’s “good war” of the 20th century.
The First World War is considered the tragic war. President Woodrow Wilson intended the war to “make the world safe for ...
WITH THE END OF THE 2001 SPRING SEMESTER, one of the leading Austrian economists in the world, Dr. Israel M. Kirzner, has decided to retire from formal academic life at the age of 71. Over a scholarly career that ...
The history of mankind is a history of war, conquest, and oppression. From ancient times to the modern era, peace and freedom have been rare occurrences in the sweep of human events. When ...
The New Dealers’ War: F.D.R. and the War within World War II
by Thomas Fleming (New York: Basic Books, 2001); 628 pages; $35.
THE SECOND WORLD WAR is considered America’s “good war” of the 20th century.
The First World War is considered ...
DURING THE WEEKEND of April 20–22, 2001, the leaders of countries in North, Central, and South America met in Quebec, Canada, to approve an agenda for establishing free trade throughout the western hemisphere by 2005.
The news media gave a ...
The Making of Modern Economics: The Lives and Ideas of the Great Thinkers
by Mark Skousen (Armonk, N.Y.: M.E. Sharpe, 2001); 485 pages; $25.
IN THE EARLY DECADES OF THE 19TH CENTURY, Thomas Carlyle was the first one to call economics ...
JOHN STUART MILL’S 1859 ESSAY “On Liberty” is one of the most enduring and powerful defenses of individual freedom ever penned. Both advocates and enemies of personal freedom have challenged either the premises ...
Regulation without the State ... The Debate Continues
by John Blundell and Colin Robinson (London: Institute of Economic Affairs, 2000); 93 pages; $15.
ALMOST 40 YEARS AGO, free-market economist and Nobel Laureate Milton Friedman published a short book entitled Capitalism and ...
WHAT MAKES SOMEONE an American as opposed to, say, an Englishman, or a Frenchman, or a German, or an Italian? Within these other countries, the answers are fairly simple.
For example, a German ...
