I’m glad “mainstream” media finally catches on to the fact that sanctions don’t work. They are worse than useless; they actually destroy a dictator’s political opposition. If you want to keep a dictator in power, blockade his country.

Sweet Home Alabama

By Kyle Wingfield

Wall Street Journal Europe

August 4, 2006

Update: My article, The Greatest Libertarian Books, appeared on LewRockwell.com on Monday, August 7, 2006. See discussion here.

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In my article, I mentioned:

A blog to watch: The Chronicles of Mises

I’ve long been fascinated by C.P. Snow’s “The Two Cultures“ (excerpts) thesis, which concerns misunderstandings between the sciences, and the humanities. But it always seemed ... incomplete. To be missing something.

Those who wish to use government power to redistribute income in directions they choose (almost everyone, today) must abuse others’ rights, because, as Thomas Jefferson put it, “To take from one...to spare to others...is to violate arbitrarily the first principle of association--the guarantee to every one of a free exercise of his industry and the fruits acquired by it.”