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War Guilt in the Middle East
5+ hour, 20+ min ago (149+ words) Into the heart of the peasant and nomadic Arab world of the Middle East there came, on the backs and on the bayonets of British imperialism, a largely European colonizing people.Original article: https://mises.org/mises-wire/war-guilt-middle-east War Guilt in the Middle East…...
New Additions to the Leveller Anthologies at the David M. Hart Archives
1+ mon, 2+ week ago (249+ words) David Hart, former head of the Liberty Fund's Online Library of Liberty Project, continues to build new archives of important documents from the history of liberalism. This includes new additions to the Leveller archives. the Levellers, according to Rothbard, were…...
Is Total War in Our Future? The Prognosis
2+ mon, 3+ week ago (761+ words) Anthony Aguilar'a retired Green Beret and recipient of a Purple Heart'spent several months in Gaza at an aid distribution site under contract from a US motorcycle club whose charter calls for the elimination of all Muslims. Based on his experience…...
Rothbard: World War I as the Triumph of Progressive Intellectuals
3+ mon, 2+ week ago (203+ words) November 11 was once known as Armistice Day, the day set aside to celebrate the end of WWI. In this essay Rothbard discusses the war as the triumph of several Progressive intellectual strains from the late 19th and early 20th centuries.Original article:…...
Murray Rothbard and World War II Origins
4+ mon, 3+ day ago (352+ words) Murray Rothbard's view of the origins of World War II has an important lesson for us today. Many people today think that a non-interventionist foreign policy is unrealistic. "Neocons always cry out "Hitler!" if you resist their demands for all-out…...
Ludwig von Mises Did not Promote Hitler’s Racial Ideas
4+ mon, 5+ day ago (678+ words) In highlighting what they see as the excesses of capitalism, the strategy of many progressives is to slander capitalists as terrible human beings. Their message is that capitalism is bad because capitalists are racists, fascists, and Nazis. For example, the…...
Roosevelt, Lindbergh, and an Impending War
5+ mon, 2+ week ago (141+ words) [America First: Roosevelt vs. Lindbergh in the Shadow of War by H.W. Brands (Doubleday Books, 2024; 444 pp.)] The gold price is off and running this week. But, money creation isn't listed as a cause. The recent murder of a young woman on…...
Every Year is 1939 to the War Hawks
6+ mon, 2+ week ago (213+ words) According to the neo-conservative war hawks, every so-called enemy is the Next Hitler and every year is 1939. The failure to seek new conflicts abroad is equated to the failure of Great Britain and France to stand up to Hitler before…...
Harry Truman and the Atomic Bomb
6+ mon, 3+ week ago (187+ words) The destruction of Hiroshima and Nagasaki was a war crime worse than any that Japanese generals were executed for in Tokyo and Manila. If Harry Truman was not a war criminal, then no one ever was.Original article: https://mises.org/mises-daily/harry-truman-and-atomic-bomb Harry…...
The “American Miracle” was the European Miracle on Steroids
8+ mon, 5+ day ago (737+ words) The Hockey Stick Graph In much literature on this topic, this has become known as the "European miracle." The conditions of the European miracle were not limited to Europe proper, but also to what might be termed the most successful…...