Archive for Robert A. Peterson
Nature Versus the Central Planners
Mr. Peterson is headmaster at the Pilgrim Academy in Egg Harbor City, New Jersey. He is the author of In His Majesty’s Service (Huntington House), a book an politics to be published in October.
For the past 100 years, central planners have used the language and methods of science to explain and justify their attempts [...]
Shipwrecked In New Jersey
Mr. Peterson is headmaster at The Pilgrim Academy in Egg Harbor, New Jersey.
I grew up in a town where yacht-making was the chief industry. Indeed, boat-building has been a South Jersey specialty for hundreds of years. The first ships were built with cedar from local cedar swamps, then dragged down nearby streams to be [...]
Book Review: Rationalism in Politics And Other Essays by Michael Oakeshott
Liberty Press, 7440 North Shadeland Avenue, Indianapolis, iN 46250-2028 • 1991 • 556 pages • $24.00 cloth; $7.50 paper
When British political philosopher Michael Oakeshott died in 1990, the world lost one of its greatest defenders of liberty. Not that Oakeshott ever stood near the Berlin Wall and asked for it to be tom down; [...]
The Best for Priscilla
Mr. Peterson is headmaster of The Pilgrim Academy in Egg Harbor City, New Jersey.
When our sixth child was born a few months ago, we were distressed to hear that she might have a problem with her hips. Visions of a baby in braces raced through our minds. Trying to be the strong husband, I [...]
When My Country Is Free
Mr. Peterson is headmaster of The Pilgrim Academy in Egg Harbor City, New Jersey.
Not long ago, I had the opportunity of hosting Marcos, a representative of “Free Angola,” at my school. His message on the Angolan people’s 15-year struggle to bring the Marxist, Cuban-backed government of Angola to the negotiating table was so well [...]
Lessons in Liberty: Hong Kong, Crown Jewel of Capitalism
Mr. Peterson is headmaster of The Pilgrim Academy in Egg Harbor City, New Jersey.
For over 100 years, the name Hong Kong has been synonymous with free enterprise. Today, the label “Made in Hong Kong” can be found just about anywhere, from clothing stores in Manhattan to grit shops in London, as the raw materials [...]
A Tale of Two Revolutions
Mr. Peterson is headmaster of The Pilgrim Academy in Egg Harbor City, New Jersey.
The year 1989 marks the 200th anniversary of the French Revolution. To celebrate, the French government is throwing its biggest party in at least 100 years, to last all year. In the United States, an American Committee on the French Revolution [...]
Origins of the German Economic Miracle
This year marks the 40th anniversary of Ludwig Erhard’s sweeping free market reforms which gave economic freedom to over 80 million Germans and began West Germany’s 30-year post-war economic miracle.
At the end of World War II, Germany was in a shambles. Fire bombs—more destructive than the atomic bombs that were dropped on Hiroshima and Nagasaki—had completely destroyed Dresden.
1Dec1988 | Robert A. Peterson | 0 comments | ContinuedThe Pilgrims in Holland
The Dutch have given many things to America: Easter eggs, Santa Claus, waffles, sauerkraut, sleighing, skating, and a host of “vans” and “velts” who helped to build our nation.[1] But perhaps their greatest contribution to America was the 11 years of freedom they gave the Pilgrims—crucial years that helped America’s founding fathers work out their philosophy of freedom and prepare for self-government in the New World.
1Nov1988 | Robert A. Peterson | 0 comments | ContinuedBooker T. Washington: Apostle of Freedom
Mr. Peterson is headmaster of The Pilgrim Academy in Egg Harbor City. New Jersey. His articles have appeared in a variety of publications, including National Review and Human Events.
“Political activity alone cannot make a man free. Back of the ballot, he must have property, industry, skill, economy, intelligence, and character.”
These words were spoken [...]
Lessons in Liberty: The Dutch Republic, 1579-1750
Mr. Peterson is headmaster of The Pilgrim Academy in Egg Harbor City, New Jersey. His articles have appeared in a variety of publications, including National Review and Human Events.
“The Dutch must be understood as they really are, wrote Daniel Defoe,” the Middle Persons in Trade, the Factors and Brokers of Europe . . . [...]
John Witherspoon: Animated Son of Liberty
On July 4, 1776, the Declaration of Independence lay on the table of Independence Hall in Philadelphia. Two days earlier, Richard Henry Lee’s resolution for independence had been adopted, and now the time was at hand when each delegate would put pen to paper, thus committing his life, his fortune, and his sacred honor to a future darkened by clouds of war. If their bid for liberty failed, those who signed would be the first to be hung from a British noose.
1Dec1985 | Robert A. Peterson | 1 comment | ContinuedGeorge Wythe of Williamsburg
“Nothing would advance me faster in the world,” wrote a young law student, “than the reputation of having been educated by Mr. Wythe, for such a man as he casts a light upon all around him.”[1] So wrote William Munford as he summed up the attitude of the more ambitious youths of revolutionary Virginia. To be taught by George Wythe—as were Henry Clay, Thomas Jefferson, John Marshall and “enough other founding fathers to populate a small standing army”[2]—was the first step on the road to success.
1Jun1984 | Robert A. Peterson | 0 comments | ContinuedBook Review: The Original Mcguffeys by William Holmes McGuffey
(Mott Media, 1000 East Huron, Milford, Michigan 48042), 1982
7 volumes • $69.95 set
For many years McGuffey’s Readers have charmed nostalgia buffs and have provided solid academic fare for a few traditional educators. The McGuffey’s Readers that were available, however, were later editions, the most recent being the 1920 revision. Now Mott Media, an aggressive [...]
Education in Colonial America
Mr. Peterson is Headmaster of The Pilgrim Academy, Egg Harbor City, New Jersey. He teaches economics and is constantly in search of ways to support and defend the principle of voluntarism in education.
One of the main objections people have to getting government out of the education business and turning it over to the free [...]
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The End of Prosperity: How Higher Taxes Will Doom the Economy–If We Let it Happen
By Arthur B. Laffer, Stephen Moore, and Peter J. Tanous
