James Ostrowski

Articles

DiLorenzo and His Critics on the Lincoln Myth

04/15/2003 Essays in Political Economy James Ostrowski

Can a few courageous writers like Tom DiLorenzo and his colleagues, using logic, evidence, and moral suasion, negate what their opponents thought they had won with over a million troops on battlefields 138 years ago?

A Letter to the President of IBM

07/01/1991 Free Market James Ostrowski

Poor IBM. Apparently big isn't necessarily better in the relatively free computer market. How will IBM ever get the public to buy its fancy, expensive personal computers or pick its new operating system? How can IBM stop ACE?

A Real Education

10/01/2001 Free Market James Ostrowski

The Free Market 19, no. 10 (October 2001) The single greatest obstacle to creating a free society is government’s control over education. Government dictates that children attend a school, and...

Media

Republicans and Big Government

07/02/2025 James Ostrowski

Contrary to popular myth, every Republican president since and including Herbert Hoover has increased the federal government's size, scope, or power. Over the last one hundred years, of the five presidents who presided over the largest domestic spending increases, four were Republicans.

James Ostrowski: The Illiberal Progressive Mind

05/15/2015 James Ostrowski Jeff Deist

Jeff Deist and Jim Ostrowski discuss how progressives managed to capture the 20th century.

Was the Union Army’s Invasion of the Confederate States a Lawful Act?

01/08/2009 James Ostrowski

Sponsored by the Mises Institute and held at the College of Charleston in South Carolina; 7-9 April 1995.

The Mises Institute is a non-profit organization that exists to promote teaching and research in the Austrian School of economics, individual freedom, honest history, and international peace, in the tradition of Ludwig von Mises and Murray N. Rothbard.

Non-political, non-partisan, and non-PC, we advocate a radical shift in the intellectual climate, away from statism and toward a private property order. We believe that our foundational ideas are of permanent value, and oppose all efforts at compromise, sellout, and amalgamation of these ideas with fashionable political, cultural, and social doctrines inimical to their spirit.