Market Liberalism, International Order, and World Peace, Part 1 by Richard M. Ebeling November 1, 2000 Part 1 | Part 2 In this Post–Cold War epoch the world is desperately searching for international order, global peace, and general economic prosperity. The great debate going on around the world is whether these desired goals can be attained through the existing system of national sovereignty or whether they require the establishment of international political organizations with the ...
The Civil War and the American Mind by Sheldon Richman November 1, 2000 THE CIVIL WAR and its militaristic effect on American society had important consequences for the nationalist collectivization of America that occurred in the following decades. It encouraged collectivist intellectuals to vigorously promote their reform visions and it won thinkers to the collectivist cause. It even convinced ...
No Border Debate in the Presidential Race by Jacob G. Hornberger November 1, 2000 When Mexican president Vicente Fox visited Washington last August, he raised an idea that caught presidential candidates Al Gore and George W. Bush totally off guard. Fox suggested that it was time to consider opening the borders between Mexico, the United States, and Canada to the free movements of ...
AmeriCorps: Salvation through Handholding by James Bovard November 1, 2000 PRESIDENT CLINTON, in an August 9, 1999, speech to AmeriCorps members, declared, “AmeriCorps is living, daily, practical, flesh-and-blood proof that there’s a better way to live ... that if we ... hold hands and believe we’re going into the future together, we can change anything we want to change. You are the modern manifestation of the dream of America’s ...
Lincoln Crossing the Rubicon by Charles Adams November 1, 2000 WHEN THE CIVIL WAR started in the Roman Republic, Julius Caesar defied the civil authority and crossed the River Rubicon in 49 B.C. This was a violation of the Roman constitution, for no army was to cross the Rubicon and enter Rome under arms. Within a few months Caesar was the ...
Why the South Was Right, the North Wrong by Doug Bandow November 1, 2000 THE VICTORS WRITE history books, and the dominant accounts of the Civil War reflect the victorious perspective: misguided Southerners sought to destroy democratic governance and preserve slavery. Led by the heroic Abraham Lincoln, Northerners responded by saving the Union and emancipating the slaves. And for leading his moral crusade, Lincoln is America’s greatest president, martyred ...
Book Review: When in the Course of Human Events by Richard M. Ebeling November 1, 2000 When in the Course of Human Events: Arguing the Case for Southern Secession by Charles Adams (Lanham, Md.: Rowman & Littlefield, 2000); 255 pages; $24.95. IN HER 1924 BOOK Free Trade and Peace in the Nineteenth Century, Helen Bosanquet pointed out, The conflict between Free Trade and Protection was one of the chief causes of the great Civil War.... Interests ...
Politicians Can Pollute Too by Sheldon Richman November 1, 2000 Politicians use language differently from the rest of us. Take the expression “Big Polluters.” Apparently there are entire industries that do nothing but pollute. Big Oil produces oil. Big Pharmaceuticals produce medicines. So Big Polluters presumably produce air and water pollution. What’s more, they somehow make big ...
CAPSULE COMMENTARY: “Bush = Gore” by Jacob G. Hornberger October 1, 2000 "Well, the first big presidential debate took place last night. Let me see if I have this right. Both Bush and Gore believe in: income taxation and the IRS; the drug war and the DEA; gun control and the ATF; Medicare and Medicaid; Social Security; public schooling and the Department of ...
CAPSULE COMMENTARY: “Stop Transfer Payments, Not Political Spending” by Jacob G. Hornberger October 1, 2000 "Three billion dollars have been spent on the 2000 presidential and congressional races, making this the most expensive election in history. People gripe and complain, but refuse to face the true nature of the problem. The problem is not that people are spending too much money to get their friends elected. The ...
CAPSULE COMMENTARY: “U.S. War or Terrorism?” by Jacob G. Hornberger October 1, 2000 "How does the U.S. government distinguish between war and terrorism? Our government continues to bomb Iraq on a regular basis, without a constitutionally required congressional declaration of war, and calls it "war." Our government also continues its embargo against the people of Iraq, which has caused untold ...
Vouchers Are Just Another Welfare Scheme by Jacob G. Hornberger October 1, 2000 If proponents of school vouchers get their way, Americans might well be permanently saddled with one of the most massive government welfare programs in history. What began many years ago as a modest proposal to help those on the lowest rungs of the economic ladder with their ...