Here is Henry Hazlitt exercising his gift for lucidity to produce a book entitled Economics in One Lesson . If there were such a book this would be it. It deals with those “economic fallacies that are at last so prevalent that they have almost become new orthodoxy,” — to the point that now there is not a major government in the world whose
“and they shall beat their swords into plowshares” – Isaiah 2:4 [ Faith & Freedom , March 1951] With the advent of war, what means are available to those who wish to resist the progressive socialization of American society? After every war, until the last one, the people took their liberty back. It was understood that they would; it was
[This article is excerpted from The American Story by Garet Garrett, 1955] For 125 years the American omen was splendid in isolation. What it signified was nothing already known. It was not a continuation of anything. It came from nowhere. It was original, improbably born, improbably nurtured, and did not belong to this world; deriving its
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