The Dictators: Hitler’s Germany, Stalin’s Russia

Throughout the 1930s the propaganda machines of the Nazi and Soviet regimes did all in their power to insist that they were ideological enemies, diametrically opposed to each other in every conceivable way. There were critics of totalitarianism who emphasized the similarities in the two systems, but theirs was a minority view among many intellectuals, [...]

Churchill, Hitler, and “The Unnecessary War”

As a soldier, politician, and writer, Winston Leonard Spencer Churchill (1874–1965) made a deep imprint on world history for more than half a century. He is best known for rallying his countrymen during the fateful Battle of Britain when he was prime minister—thereby, many people believe, stemming the flood that was sweeping Adolf Hitler to [...]

Book Reviews – June 2007

• Hitlers Beneficiaries: Plunder, Racial War, and the Nazi Welfare State
  
  by Goetz Aly Reviewed by Richard M. Ebeling
  
• The Big Ripoff: How Big Business and Big Government Steal Your Money
  by Timothy P. Carney Reviewed by Sheldon Richman
  
• Income and Wealth
  by Alan Reynolds Reviewed by George C. Leef
  
• The Sarbanes-Oxley Debacle What We Have Learned; How to Fix It
  by Henry N. Butler and Larry E. Ribstein Reviewed by Barbara Hunter
  
• The Joy of SOX: Why Sarbanes-Oxley and Service-Oriented Architecture May Be the Best Thing That Ever Happened to You
  by Hugh Taylor Reviewed by Barbara Hunter
  

Two Who Made a Difference

In 20 years of traveling to 67 countries I’ve come across some pretty nasty governments and some darn good people. To be fair I should acknowledge that I’ve also encountered some rotten people and a half-decent government or two. The ghastliest of all worlds is when you have rotten people running nasty governments, a combination [...]

Ludwig von Mises and The Vienna of His Time (Part 1)

Ludwig von Mises was a passionate advocate of reason who deeply believed in the value of human freedom. He also was a patriotic cosmopolitan; that is, in the years before he left Europe in 1940, Mises was deeply loyal to the Austria of his birth, while adhering to a philosophy and an outlook on life [...]

The Lost Literature of Socialism

The literature of socialism is lost only in the sense of not having been read for a very long time. George Watson has been re-reading this literature as a professional literary critic, with strong interests in both political affairs and the history of ideas. Many of his findings are astonishing. Perhaps for readers today the [...]

Albert Jay Nock: A Gifted Pen for Radical Individualism

American individualism had virtually died out by the time Mark Twain was buried in 1910. Progressive intellectuals promoted collectivism. Progressive jurists like Oliver Wendell Holmes hammered constitutional restraints as an inconvenient obstacle to expanding government power, supposedly the cure for every social problem.

What Is Multiculturalism?

Dr. Mack is a professor of philosophy at Tulane University in New Orleans, Louisiana. Occasionally one thinks that, perhaps because it has become so tedious, multiculturalism has begun to pass from the scene. Unfortunately, such thoughts seem entirely too optimistic in light of the great extent to which multiculturalist slogans have become culturally and institutionally [...]