After World War I, conservatism was transformed from an antiegalitarian, antistatist ideological force into a movement of culturally conservative statists: the right wing of the socialists and social democrats.
Laurence Vance explains that Mises's writings criticize both theism and atheism insofar as they are guilty of conflating economic fallacy and divine will.
Bob Murphy talks inflation and why suddenly everyone is an expert, and then why Jim Rogers says buy a motorcycle and see the world: It's a great way to get an education. Jeff and Peyton Gouzien discuss big questions like liberalism and illiberalism in the twentieth century and David Gordon reviews The Lords of Easy Money, a thoroughgoing critique of the subversive power of the Fed.
The presence of American companies in foreign nations was once seen as a sign of American superiority and an instrument of American cultural power. Not anymore.
In Nock's view, the usurpation of social power by state power went hand in glove with a rise in war, intra-social conflict, arbitrary authority, indebtedness, and many other injustices.
Revisionism has the general function of bringing historical truth to a public that had been drugged by wartime lies and propaganda.
Look closely and you'll notice that elite professors, doctors, economists, and other intellectuals use their social standing to justify the state's policies and maintain its image.
Social issues, from abortion to critical race theory to teaching gender identity in elementary schools, dominate our politics and media.
The dichotomies of the twentieth century and the turning of the tide toward illiberalness highlight not only a difference in the thinking within the liberty community, but Americans and people in general. We are left with the consequences of this thinking and the beast it created.
