Freedom Daily Archive

Terrorism — Public and Private

by Jacob G. Hornberger June 1, 1995

On April 19, 1995, the federal building in Oklahoma City was bombed. Hundreds of people, including children, were killed or injured. Although federal government officials have been sporadically killed in the line of duty in the past, this was the first mass killing of federal civil servants in American history. There was tremendous shock, anger, and outrage over the Oklahoma ...

The Oklahoma Tragedy and the Mass Media

by Richard M. Ebeling June 1, 1995

The hundreds of pictures and thousands of words that have appeared in the popular press since the Oklahoma City bombing tell us much about America and its people. The images and descriptions of the killed and wounded have aroused the sympathy and concern of millions of Americans. Countless prayers have been offered for the dead and those they left ...

American Foreign Policy — The Turning Point, 1898–1919 Part 5

by Ralph Raico June 1, 1995

Part 1 | Part 2 | Part 3 | Part 4 | Part 5 | Part 6 When the United States broke off diplomatic relations with Germany in February 1917, war did not immediately follow. President Wilson hesitated to take that final, fateful step, first asking Congress for authority to arm U.S. merchant ships. Since ...

Freedom through Encryption

by Sheldon Richman June 1, 1995

When the history of the modern struggle for liberty is written, Philip Zimmermann will be celebrated as a true hero. To understand why, we must explore the issue of privacy in the information age. It is a story that should the thrill the heart of every lover of liberty. The government has always been able to read our mail. After ...

The Power to Declare War — Who Speaks for the Constitution? Part 1

by Doug Bandow June 1, 1995

Part 1 | Part 2 | Part 3 When presidents lose domestic support, they invariably look overseas for crises to solve. President Clinton is no different. After the Republicans swept Congress, he immediately flew off to the Pacific for a series of meetings with foreign leaders. Aides predict that he will continue to pay greater attention to foreign policy, where ...

Book Review: Days of Infamy

by Richard M. Ebeling June 1, 1995

Days of Infamy: MacArthur, Roosevelt, Churchill — The Shocking Truth Revealed by John Costello (New York: Pocket Books, 1994); 448 pages; $24. John Costello is a distinguished historian who has uncovered fascinating new evidence on a wide number of topics. Two of his previous works, Mask of Treachery: Spies, Lies, Buggery & Betrayal (1988) and Deadly Illusions (1993), unearthed ...

Repatriation — The Dark Side of World War II, Part 4

by Jacob G. Hornberger May 1, 1995

Part 1 | Part 2 | Part 3 | Part 4 | Part 5 | Part 6 | Part 7 To fully understand what happened to American soldiers who were part of the repatriation horror at the end of World War II — and why it happened — it is necessary to examine events ...

Covering the Map of the World — The Half-Century Legacy of the Yalta Conference, Part 4

by Richard M. Ebeling May 1, 1995

Part 1 | Part 2 | Part 3 | Part 4 | Part 5 | Part 6 | Part 7 | Part 8 | Part 9 As we have seen, Roosevelt approached his meetings with Stalin with a determination to make friends and use the Red Czar of Soviet Russia as his ...

American Foreign Policy — The Turning Point, 1898–1919 Part 4

by Ralph Raico May 1, 1995

Part 1 | Part 2 | Part 3 | Part 4 | Part 5 | Part 6 Once war broke out in 1914, each of the European powers felt that its very existence was at stake, and rules of international law were rapidly abandoned. The Germans violated Belgian neutrality because their war plan called for the ...

World War II and the Military-Industrial-Congressional Complex

by Robert Higgs May 1, 1995

On January 18, 1961, just before leaving office, President Dwight D. Eisenhower gave a farewell address to the nation in which he called attention to the "conjunction of an immense military establishment and a large arms industry." He warned that "in the councils of government, we must guard against the acquisition of unwarranted influence, whether sought or unsought, by ...

Baseball, Microsoft, and Antitrust Tyranny

by Sheldon Richman May 1, 1995

Congress's efforts to meddle in the Major League Baseball strike and the Department of Justice's harassment of the software giant Microsoft are just the latest reminders that the American economy badly needs to be liberated from the century-long tyranny of antitrust law. (The Sherman Antitrust Act was passed in 1890.) Through a quirk of jurisprudential history, baseball has been exempt ...

Book Review: Conditions of Liberty

by Richard M. Ebeling May 1, 1995

Conditions of Liberty: Civil Society and Its Rivals by Ernest Gellner (London: Hamish Hamilton, 1994); 225 pages; $25. The Western world is unique. It is the only civilization that has successfully combined liberty, order, and prosperity. We who live in it — even with all of its existing impurities of statist interventionism and coercive redistributivism — take it for granted and ...