If somehow, suddenly, Randolph Bourne were alive again in today’s world , he would not be as bewildered or as bewildering as some of those who did not die. Though it is perilous to draw parallels between historical periods, it is safe to say that he would find the world in a similar, if more desperate plight. Then in 1918, the year of his death,
In 1944, Ludwig von Mises published one of his least-known masterworks: Omnipotent Government: The Rise of the Total State and Total War . Drawing on his prewar experience in Vienna, watching the rise of the national socialists in Germany (the Nazis), who would eventually take over his own homeland, he set out to draw parallels between the Russian
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. 1 (January 1998) China is undergoing one of the great economic transformations in human history. It has moved from communism toward what it calls “market socialism” at breakneck pace, and enjoyed double-digit economic growth as a result. As an inevitable consequence, the grip of central state power has begun to relax.
The Free Market 16, no. 4 (April 1998) British Prime Minister Tony Blair apologized for doing “too little” in response to the Irish Potato Famine of the 19th century that killed one million people and brought about the emigration of millions more. But in fact, the English government was guilty of doing too much. Blair’s statement draws attention
Single-Issue Scholarship Mises Review 4, No. 2 (Summer 1998) THE RACIAL CONTRACT Charles W. Mills Cornell University Press, 1997,171 pgs. Charles W. Mills has, by his own estimation, located a crucial gap in Western political and ethical theory from the Enlightenment to Rawls and Nozick. As Mills rightly says, the social contract dominates modern
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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