World History

If the secret wishes of each producer were realized, the world would retrograde rapidly toward barbarism.

Hitler is the modern archetype of political evil, but many who condemn him still embrace his policies, writes Llewellyn H. Rockwell Jr.

Kenneth McIntyre has given us a deeply thoughtful and erudite account of one of the greatest 20th-century historians, Hebert Butterfield. I should like to concentrate on an aspect of Butterfield's thought likely to be of

Whatever the failings of this book, its author has a sense of humor. Peikoff writes of his unusual name for his main hypothesis,

A powerful state, Butterfield said, will endeavor to portray itself as the champion of the good, locked in battle with the forces of evil.

During the havoc and upheaval of the French Revolution, the communist creed again popped up, but this time the major emphasis was a secular context.

Schumpeter said that the USSR "would be a good laboratory." Weber responded, "A laboratory heaped with human corpses!"

Brehon law was a private legal system in ancient Ireland that survived until the 17th century.
 

Once the economy is deprived of its monetary steroids, the malinvestments will be revealed as wasteful, misplaced capital and labor.