A Brief History of Global Conservatism

Now available on Amazon is the Encyclopedia of Modern Political Thought from Sage Publications. Sage was nice enough to ask me to write the section on conservatism in the encyclopedia. The type of conservatism discussed is primarily the global conservative tradition of Burke, Maistre, Metternich, and Pius IX, with some references to the American conservative movement, and to its critics including Ronald Hamowy, Rothbard, Mises, Erik von Kuehnelt-Leddihn, among others.

A Year-End Message From Lew Rockwell

 

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Who Needs the Debt Ceiling?

The singular brilliance of the debt ceiling is that it keeps reminding everyone that there is a growing national debt that never seems to shrink. That is a tremendous service to American citizens who live in the dark regarding the borrowing machinations of their political overlords.