[ New Individualist Review , 1961] When Oswald Spengler in one of his minor books scornfully characterized German classical liberalism as “a bit of the spirit of England on German soil,” he was merely displaying the willful blindness of the school of militaristic statist German historians, who refused to acknowledge as a true compatriot any
[ American Conservatism: An Encyclopedia , 2006] “Classical liberalism” is the term used to designate the ideology advocating private property, an unhampered market economy, the rule of law, constitutional guarantees of freedom of religion and of the press, and international peace based on free trade. Up until around 1900, this ideology was
[This article appeared in the Future of Freedom Foundation’s Freedom Daily , August 1992] Classical liberalism—or simply liberalism, as it was called until around the turn of the century—is the signature political philosophy of Western civilization. Hints and suggestions of the liberal idea can be found in other great cultures. But it was the
“He loved liberty as other men love power,” was the judgment passed on Benjamin Constant by a contemporary. His lifelong concern, both as a writer and politician, was the attainment in France and in other nations of a free society; and at the time when classical liberalism was the specter haunting Europe — in the second and third decades of the
Leonard Liggio has died, at the age of 81. He was my friend for close to sixty years, and I came to know him well. Today my mind is filled with thoughts and memories of him. Leonard was a Catholic, a scholar, and a libertarian. His Catholic faith was his lodestar. Leonard was a “birthright Catholic,” and from his childhood through to university
Few ideas are as closely associated with Marxism as the concepts of class and class conflict. It is, for instance, impossible to imagine what a Marxist philosophy of history or a Marxist revolutionary theory would be in their absence. Yet, as with much else in Marxism, these concepts remain ambiguous and contradictory. For instance, while
[Este ensayo apareció originalmente como “ The Theory of Economic Development and the European Miracle “ en The Collapse of Development Planning , editado por Peter J. Boettke.] Entre los escritores sobre desarrollo económico, PT Bauer se destaca tanto por la profundidad de su conocimiento histórico como por su insistencia en la indispensabilidad
El episodio más espectacular de la presidencia de Harry Truman nunca se olvidará, pero estará siempre ligado a su nombre: los bombardeos atómicos de Hiroshima, el 6 de agosto de 1945, y de Nagasaki, tres días después. Probablemente unas doscientas mil personas murieron en los ataques y por envenenamiento por radiación; la gran mayoría eran
[Extraído de « Harry S. Truman: Advancing the Revolution », en Reassessing the Presidency: The Rise of the Executive State and the Decline of Freedom ] ¿Un «casi genial»? Cuando Harry Truman dejó el cargo en enero de 1953, era intensamente impopular, incluso ampliamente despreciado. Muchos de sus planes más apreciados, desde el seguro médico
[Introducción a las Grandes guerras y grandes líderes (2010). Un archivo de audio MP3 de este artículo, narrado por Keith Hocker, está disponible para su descarga ]. El rey de Prusia, Federico II («el Grande»), confesó que le había arrebatado la provincia de Silesia a la emperatriz María Teresa en 1740 porque, como recién llegado al trono, tenía
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