Events in Ukraine are happening very fast, and if I tried to predict what will happen there, my prediction would soon be overtaken by events. But one thing is certain. We need to understand the background of the crisis, and we also need to remember the basic principles that should guide American policy. To understand the background, the best guide
T. Hunt Tooley is chairman of the department of history at Austin College and an Associated Scholar of the Mises Institute. In this interview with The Austrian , Dr. Tooley examines what we can learn today from the First World War. THE AUSTRIAN: It has now been 100 years since the United States entered the First World War. Was getting involved in
Capitalism is essentially a scheme for peaceful nations. What the incompatibility of war and capitalism really means is that war and high civilization are incompatible. — Ludwig von Mises Peace is popular. That was Ron Paul’s message to our audience in Texas earlier this spring, and it has been his consistent message since first running for
THE AUSTRIAN : Among those of us who are very laissez-faire, Europe’s liberal nineteenth century seems like ancient history, and people like Richard Cobden seem to be incredibly far from what is now the mainstream. And yet, leftists seem to believe that “neoliberalism” (i.e., the ideology of “limited government”) is making gains everywhere. Can
Since 2008, Marvel Studios, now owned by Disney, has been cranking out at least one big-budget new movie each year, with much success. The movies of the so-called Marvel Cinematic Universe — which includes the post-2007 Marvel movies about the Incredible Hulk, Captain America, Iron Man, Thor, and the Avengers — have combined to gross more than 8.5
[ Patrick Newman is editor of a forthcoming book by Murray Rothbard titled The Progressive Era. Dr. Newman recently spoke with us about the book and Rothbard’s innovative views on the period. ] THE AUSTRIAN: Why is this book only being published now and how did you become involved? PATRICK NEWMAN: The book totals 15 chapters and begins with an
The Hell o Good Intentions: America’s Foreign Policy Elite and the Decline of U.S. Primacy by Stephen M. Walt Farrar, Straus, and Giroux, 2018 xii + 384 pages Stephen Walt has put himself in a difficult position. He is a Professor of International Affairs at the Kennedy School of Government at Harvard and the author of studies, most notably The
Covert Regime Change: America’s Secret Cold War Lindsey A. O’Rourke Cornell University Press, 2018 330 pages Lindsey O’Rourke has given us a devastating indictment of the foreign policy of the United States during the Cold War and after. O’Rourke, who teaches political science at Boston College, is not a principled non-interventionist in the
The New Right: A Journey to the Fringe of American Politics by Michael Malice All Points Books/St. Martin’s Press 2019 307 pages Conservatism, Michael Malice famously remarks, is progressivism driving the speed limit. Malice’s latest book, aptly titled The New Right: A Journey to the Fringe of American Politics, documents a movement of sorts to
[ The Austrian 3, nº 4 (Julio-Agosto 2017)] THE AUSTRIAN: ¿Por qué se publica ahora este libro y como te viste implicado en él? PATRICK NEWMAN: El libro contiene quince capítulos y empieza con un manuscrito inédito (capítulos 1-9) que Rothbard escribió a finales de la década de 1970. A principios de la década de 1980 Rothbard dejó de trabajar en
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