More starvation and disease or bombers and cruise missiles--these are the only actual choices Washington offers Iraq. No wonder Saddam will risk being bombed to end the economic blockade. United Nations’ authorities have officially recognized Iraq’s compliance with Resolution 687, the basic cease fire resolution, for the destruction of all its
Reassessing the U.S. Presidency October 16-17, 1998 Callaway Gardens and Warm Springs, Georgia The worst of the allegations against the president are alarming. But American history is littered with examples of abuses of executive power that go well beyond personal corruption. Where can you go in the library to find the truth about the havoc U.S.
The Free Market 16, no. 2 (February 1998) The conventional wisdom on the defeat of Fast Track trade legislation is dead wrong. As the press would have it, the failure of Fast Track reflects the rise of grass-roots protectionism. The vote in Congress to deny Clinton the authority to negotiate trade deals is a response to constituent pressure.
The Free Market 16, no. 4 (April 1998) Among the conventional weapons in the arsenal of the modern Warfare State, none is crueler or more indiscriminate than economic sanctions. While a bomb, missile, or other military ordnance can devastate an entire neighborhood in a moment, the slow death of economic strangulation can so degrade an entire
Foreign Policy as Pseudo-Science Mises Review 4, No. 3 (Fall 1998) FROM WEALTH TO POWER Fareed Zakaria Princeton University Press, 1998, x + 199 pgs. Mr. Zakaria finds a paradox at the heart of American foreign policy in the latter part of the nineteenth century. The United States at that period was rapidly becoming an economic giant. Yet its role
The Open Conspiracy Mises Review 4, No. 2 (Summer 1998) THE RELUCTANT SHERIFF: THE UNITED STATES AFTER THE COLD WAR Richard N. Haass Council on Foreign Relations, 1997, 148 pgs. You don’t have to be a believer in the conspiracy theory of history to feel suspicious about the provenance of Mr. Haass’s book. Its publisher is the Council on Foreign
The Left’s Favorite Killer Mises Review 4, No. 2 (Summer 1998) DRAWING LIFE: SURVIVING THE UNABOMBER David Gelernter The Free Press, 1997, viii + 158 pgs. Much of this moving book lies outside the scope of The Mises Review . The Unabomber selected Mr. Gelernter as a target; and in June 1993, a package exploded in his office at Yale University.
The Hegemonic Imperative Mises Review 4, No. 4 (Winter 1998) THE GRAND CHESSBOARD: AMERICAN PRIMACY AND ITS GEOSTRATEGIC IMPERATIVES Zbigniew Brzezinski Basic Books, 1997, xiv + 223 pgs. Professor Brzezinski displays in this book an inordinate fondness for intellectual games. A minor and forgivable weakness, you might think. But unfortunately
The Roosevelt Myth by John T. Flynn is the best book ever written on the New Deal, the drive to war, and the terrible consequences of the FDR presidency. A new edition of the book, with a brilliant introduction by Ralph Raico, is now available for $25 (hardback) on mises.org. See The Roosevelt Myth The Investors Business Daily (Dec 3, 1998) ran
The Guts, Not the Glory, of Fighting the ‘Good War’ By Paul Fussell Washington Post , Sunday, July 26, 1998; Page C01 Instructed by his experience as a volunteer in Civil War military hospitals, Walt Whitman declared that the real war will never get in the books. Nor in films either, we can say, after we’ve seen attempts to represent more recent
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