Robert A. Taft

Articles

02/01/2022 Mises Daily Robert A. Taft

Robert Taft fought military conscription in 1946, stating, "If adopted, it will color our whole future. We shall have fought to abolish totalitarianism in the world, only to set it up in the United States."

Publications

A Foreign Policy for Americans

12/18/1952 Robert A. Taft

Written in 1951, Taft argued that the freedom of the people of the United States was — as it is now — in serious danger from the foreign and domestic policies of the political class . From the foreword: Today we face threats to our liberty and moral

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