Freedom Daily Archive

Repatriation — The Dark Side of World War II, Part 3

by Jacob G. Hornberger April 1, 1995

Part 1 | Part 2 | Part 3 | Part 4 | Part 5 | Part 6 | Part 7 Adolf Hitler did not trust Andrey Vlasov. The Russian general had served in the Russian army since the Russian Revolution. He had fought hard and valiantly in the successful defense of Moscow. It was ...

Covering the Map of the World — The Half-Century Legacy of the Yalta Conference, Part 3

by Richard M. Ebeling April 1, 1995

Part 1 | Part 2 | Part 3 | Part 4 | Part 5 | Part 6 | Part 7 | Part 8 | Part 9 The Yalta meeting was the culmination of the wartime conferences between Churchill, Stalin, and Roosevelt. Both Winston Churchill and Franklin Roosevelt placed a high value on ...

The America First Committee

by Sheldon Richman April 1, 1995

One of the most remarkable episodes in American history was the spontaneous and widespread opposition to Franklin Roosevelt's obvious attempts to embroil the United States in the European war that broke out in 1939. That opposition was centered in the America First Committee. In modern accounts of the war period, the committee is either ignored or maligned as a ...

American Foreign Policy — The Turning Point, 1898 –1919 Part 3

by Ralph Raico April 1, 1995

Part 1 | Part 2 | Part 3 | Part 4 | Part 5 | Part 6 By 1899, the United States was involved in its first war in Asia. Three others were to follow in the course of the next century: against Japan, North Korea and China, and, finally, Viet Nam. But our first ...

The Art of Budget Cutting

by James Ostrowski April 1, 1995

The new Republican majority in Congress will have its integrity severely tested when it decides the fate of the National Endowment for the Arts (NEA). The Republicans got elected on one basic promise — to cut the size of the national government. It is difficult to think of another federal program that so richly deserves to be axed. That ...

Book Review: Dead Right

by Richard M. Ebeling April 1, 1995

Dead Right by David Frum (New York: A New Republic Book/Basic Books, 1994); 230 pages; $23.00. The congressional Republicans are approaching the end of their first one hundred days, during which they promised to implement much of the legislation in their Contract with America, a contract that they said would usher in a "historic change" that would bring about "the end ...

Repatriation — The Dark Side of World War II, Part 2

by Jacob G. Hornberger March 1, 1995

Part 1 | Part 2 | Part 3 | Part 4 | Part 5 | Part 6 | Part 7 Hitler, Stalin, Roosevelt, Churchill, and Truman shared two things in common — their philosophical belief on the role of government in economic activity and their participation in the mass murder of millions of innocent ...

Covering the Map of the World — The Half-Century Legacy of the Yalta Conference, Part 2

by Richard M. Ebeling March 1, 1995

Part 1 | Part 2 | Part 3 | Part 4 | Part 5 | Part 6 | Part 7 | Part 8 | Part 9 On the evening of February 8, 1945-the fifth day of the Yalta Conference — the Big Three — Franklin D. Roosevelt, Winston Churchill, and Joseph Stalin ...

American Foreign Policy — The Turning Point, 1898–1919 Part 2

by Ralph Raico March 1, 1995

Part 1 | Part 2 | Part 3 | Part 4 | Part 5 | Part 6 The year 1898 was a landmark in American history. It was the year America went to war with Spain — our first engagement with a foreign enemy in the dawning age of modern warfare. Aside from a few ...

World War II and the Triumph of Keynesianism

by Robert Higgs March 1, 1995

War, everybody says, is hell. But many Americans do not really believe this truism, especially when the war in question is World War II. Of course, for the men who had to endure the horrors of combat, the war was terrible — just how terrible, hundreds of thousands of them did not live to say. But the great majority ...

As Capitalism Wins, the U.S. Drops Out

by Theodore J. Forstmann March 1, 1995

American political and economic life has entered a twilight zone. As countries everywhere are embracing capitalism, the United States, unfortunately, is moving toward democratic socialism. As I travel the world, the irony could not be more profound. I've been to Mexico to talk about free-market reform, to Russia and Eastern Europe — to meet with young entrepreneurs, and all over ...

Book Review: The Politics of Envy

by Richard M. Ebeling March 1, 1995

The Politics of Envy: Statism as Theology by Doug Bandow (New Brunswick, N.J.: Transaction Books, 1994); 338 pages; $19.95. In his recent book, The Politics of Envy: Statism as Theology, Doug Bandow analyzes the destructive effect of envy in the contemporary world. "e live in an age of envy," he says. The problem is not that people simply want ...