Germany’s New Political Party Is Just Another Big-Government Party
Germany's newest political party once held a banner for free markets. Unfortunately, it's been lately moving very much in the wrong direction.
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Walter Starkie and the Greatest Novel of All
Whether Starkie was right that Don Quixote was the greatest of all novels is a question that each reader must determine for himself.
“Liberal Socialism” — Another False Utopia
Very often, bad and failed ideas do not die, they simply reappear in slightly different intellectual garb.
The King Hath a Heavy Reckoning to Make
The Bard had a deep appreciation of political theatre, and even when his works seem to praise kings and wars, they’re often subtly condemning them.
The Milk of the Poppy
In the third episode of the Historical Controversies podcast, Chris Calton looks at the history of opium use around the world.
Why Was Ancient China so Good at War, and so Bad at Commerce?
By providing rewards for bureaucrats and punishments for merchants, many rulers destroyed interest in entrepreneurship and innovation outside the state.
World War I and the Triumph of Illiberal Ideology
Mises warned that war is the outcome of abandoning economic freedom, which is inextricably tied to the spirit of liberalism and its philosophy of peace.
Week in Review: August 12, 2017
As the war drums with North Korea get ever louder, it’s appropriate that this week was the anniversary of the atomic bombing of Japan.
The End of the Nation-State
The problem is that government is based on coercion, and it is, at a minimum, suboptimal to base a social structure on institutionalized coercion.
Harry Truman and the Atomic Bomb
The destruction of Hiroshima and Nagasaki was a war crime worse than any that Japanese generals were executed for in Tokyo and Manila.
