Covering the Map of the World — The Half-Century Legacy of the Yalta Conference, Part 3 by Future of Freedom Foundation April 1, 2010 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 personal diplomacy. Churchill believed in the "great man" theory of history. As John Charmley has recently expressed it in his biographyChurchill: The End of Glory (1993), Churchill believed that "such men could be recognized by the mark they made on their own and subsequent ages, and knowing himself to be one, Churchill enjoyed making contact with others of the same species." He had used personal diplomacy with great effect in his relationship with FDR, first in establishing a stream of war material from America under Lend-Lease and then obtaining American participation in the war against Nazi Germany. While deeply suspicious of communism and the Soviet Union, Churchill believed that a similar personal relationship could work with Stalin — in getting the Soviet leader to work with him in determining the political settlement that would ...
Covering the Map of the World The Half-Century Legacy of the Yalta Conference, Part 3 by Future of Freedom Foundation May 3, 2010 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 personal diplomacy. Churchill believed in the "great man" theory of history. As John Charmley has recently expressed it in his biographyChurchill: The End of Glory (1993), Churchill believed that "such men could be recognized by the mark they made on their own and subsequent ages, and knowing himself to be one, Churchill enjoyed making contact with others of the same species." He had used personal diplomacy with great effect in his relationship with FDR, first in establishing a stream of war material from America under Lend-Lease and then obtaining American participation in the war against Nazi Germany. While deeply suspicious of communism and the Soviet Union, Churchill believed that a similar personal relationship could work with Stalin in getting the ...
The Future of Freedom-Retrospect and Prospects, Part 1 by Future of Freedom Foundation April 27, 2010 Part 1 | Part 2 | Part 3 With the approaching end of 1994, The Future of Freedom Foundation is celebrating its fifth anniversary. For a half-decade, Jacob Hornberger and I, and the other authors who have contributed essays for Freedom Daily, have attempted to make the ethical and economic case for individual liberty and the market economy. In our published articles and spoken addresses, we have tried to present the principled argument for freedom on a wide variety of economic and social issues, as well as on a number of domestic and international topics. During these five years, I found that one of the most frequently heard comments during discussions with people has been: "How can we turn this situation around? Haven't we moved too far ...
Social Conflict, Self-Determination, and the Boundaries of the State by Future of Freedom Foundation April 25, 2010 For the advocate of classical or market liberalism, the depoliticization of economic life is considered the primary avenue for the diminishment of social and cultural tensions in society. The removal of the state from all involvement in market activities, other than as protector of life and property and legal arbiter ...
Book Review: Hayek on Hayek by Future of Freedom Foundation March 30, 2010 Hayek on Hayek: An Autobiographical Dialogue by F. A. Hayek, edited by Stephen Kresge and Leif Wenar (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1994) $27.95; 170 pages. This year marks the fiftieth anniversary of the publication of Friedrich A. Hayek's ...
Book Review: Double Lives by Future of Freedom Foundation March 30, 2010 Double Lives: Spies and Writers in the Secret Soviet War of Ideas against the West by Stephen Koch (New York: Free Press, 1994) 419 pages; $24.95. In the first half of the 20th century, one of the most respected and internationally famous ...
Book Review: Reclaiming the American Right by Future of Freedom Foundation March 30, 2010 Reclaiming the American Right: The Lost Legacy of the Conservative Movement by Justin Raimondo (Burlingame, CA: Center for Libertarian Studies, 1993); 287 pages. In the first issue of the conservative quarterly Modern Age — Summer 1957 — there was an ...
Book Review: Market Liberalism by Future of Freedom Foundation March 30, 2010 Market Liberalism: A Paradigm for the 21st Century, edited by David Boaz and Edward H. Crane (Washington, D.C.: Cato Institute, 1993); 404 pages; $15.95. As the 20th century approaches its end, the American people face the challenge of deciding their political ...
Book Review: Mises by Future of Freedom Foundation March 30, 2010 Mises: An Annotated Bibliography compiled by Bettina Bien Greaves and Robert W. McGee (Irvington-on-Hudson, New York: The Foundation for Economic Education, 1993); 391 pages; $14.95. In his 1894 book, The Tyranny of Socialism, the French classical ...
Book Review: Welfare Economics and Externalities in an Open Ended Universe by Future of Freedom Foundation March 30, 2010 Welfare Economics and Externalities in an Open Ended Universe: A Modern Austrian Perspective by Roy E. Cordato (Boston: Kluwer Academic Press, 1992); 140 pages. Classical liberals and libertarians have traditionally argued that government should be limited to certain essential functions for ...
Individual Liberty and Civil Society by Future of Freedom Foundation March 27, 2010 In 1819, the French classical liberal, Benjamin Constant, delivered a lecture in Paris entitled, "The Liberty of the Ancients Compared with that of the Modems." He drew his audience's attention to the fact that in the world of ancient Greece, "the aim of the ancients was the sharing of power ...
If Liberty Mattered … A Presidential Candidate’s Press Conference by Future of Freedom Foundation April 1, 2010 Election years are meant to be momentous events in the life of a nation. The electorate are given the opportunity to determine the political course of the country. And every four years, the electoral process includes the election of the president has come to symbolize the mood of the country — a statement by the ...
