Conservatism

The Failure of the Republican “Revolution,” Part 5

by Jacob G. Hornberger June 1, 1996

Part 1 | Part 2 | Part 3 | Part 4 | Part 5 | Part 6 | Part 7 | Part 8 | Part 9 It would be difficult to find a better example of socialist central planning than public schooling. The system is run by a board of government officials, ...

The Failure of the Republican “Revolution,” Part 4

by Jacob G. Hornberger May 1, 1996

Part 1 | Part 2 | Part 3 | Part 4 | Part 5 | Part 6 | Part 7 | Part 8 | Part 9 It would be difficult to find a better example of socialist central planning than the Federal Reserve Board — the central bank of the United States. ...

The Failure of the Republican “Revolution,” Part 3

by Jacob G. Hornberger April 1, 1996

Part 1 | Part 2 | Part 3 | Part 4 | Part 5 | Part 6 | Part 7 | Part 8 | Part 9 The year 1913 was one of the most revolutionary years in American history. Two things dramatically changed the nature of American society and the philosophy of ...

The Failure of the Republican “Revolution,” Part 2

by Jacob G. Hornberger March 1, 1996

Part 1 | Part 2 | Part 3 | Part 4 | Part 5 | Part 6 | Part 7 | Part 8 | Part 9 Our 19th-century American ancestors created the most unusual society in history. No income taxation. No Social Security. No Medicare. No Medicaid. No welfare. No public housing. ...

The Failure of the Republican “Revolution,” Part 1

by Jacob G. Hornberger February 1, 1996

Part 1 | Part 2 | Part 3 | Part 4 | Part 5 | Part 6 | Part 7 | Part 8 | Part 9 There have been four significant non-violent revolutions in American history: the Revolution in 1776, the Industrial Revolution in the 1800s, the constitutional amendments of 1913, and ...

The Religious Right

by Jacob G. Hornberger December 1, 1994

Sixty years ago, there occurred one of the most monumental revolutions in history. It was a revolution that shook the very foundations of American society. For 150 years, the American people subscribed to a fundamental moral principle with respect to the role of government in their lives: Government shall never be ...

The Greying of the Conservative Idea: Freedom and the Social Order

by Richard M. Ebeling October 1, 1994

Ours is a time without a consistent ideological or philosophical direction. The utopian dreams that dominated more than three-quarters of our century have lost their attractiveness for most people, after the attempt to implement them produced nothing but death camps, slave labor, and mass terror. Fascism, National Socialism, and ...

The Crisis in Conservatism

by Jacob G. Hornberger October 1, 1992

The end of the Cold War has brought a deep crisis to the conservative movement in America. For over four decades, the communist threat was the glue that bound conservatives together. However, now that communism no longer poses a direct threat to the United States, deep cracks have appeared in the conservative movement. Why? The reason is that conservatives have ...

Freedom’s Greatest Challenge

by Richard M. Ebeling June 1, 1990

At the end of January, President Bush delivered his State of the Union address before the Congress. Two leading themes ran through his speech: the demise of communism and the bright future for America in the post-communist world. The President spoke forcefully of the desire for freedom that had never died in the hearts and minds of the people in ...

An Open Letter to Russell Kirk

by Jacob G. Hornberger April 1, 1990

Friends of mine recently shared with me your two articles, "Libertarians: The Chirping Sectaries" and "A Dispassionate Assessment of Libertarians." In these articles, you claimed that an unbridgeable gulf separated the moral and philosophical positions of conservatives and libertarians. You concluded, therefore, that there was little hope for ...