All Posts Tagged With: "foreign interventionism"
Is a Nation Something That Can Be Built?
In the wake of both the collapse of the Soviet empire and the more recent U.S. interventions in Iraq and Afghanistan, we have seen a lively debate on nation-building. Many people who are ordinarily skeptical about the power of the U.S. government as a force for good, either at home or around the world, have [...]
25May2011 | Steven Horwitz | 10 comments | ContinuedStop the Bad Guys
It’s not too much of a simplification to say that modern American conservatives believe the national government to be ignorant, bumbling, and corrupt when it meddles in the U.S. economy, but sagacious, sure-footed, and righteous when it meddles in foreign-government affairs. Nor are the boundaries of acceptable simplification breached by saying that modern American “liberals” [...]
25May2011 | Donald J. Boudreaux | 19 comments | ContinuedNeoconservatives and the Freedom Philosophy
The winter 2004 issue of The Public Interest contains an article by Adam Wolfson, the publication’s editor, on “Conservatives and Neoconservatives.” Mr. Wolfson outlines some of the central ideas of neoconservatism by contrasting them with what he refers to as traditionalist conservatism, paleoconservatism, and libertarian conservatism. Before World War II, he points out, conservatism was [...]
1May2004 | Richard M. Ebeling | 2 comments | ContinuedGlobal Taxes for World Government
Laurence Vance is an instructor at Pensacola Bible Institute and a freelance writer living in Pensacola, Florida. Many Americans have at least some knowledge about the Stamp Act of 1765, so instrumental in setting the stage for the American Revolution. But who among us has ever heard of former United Nations Secretary-General Boutros Boutros-Ghali’s proposal [...]
1Sep1998 | Laurence M. Vance | 0 comments | Continued-
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