All Posts Tagged With: "Nazi Germany"
Pearl Harbor: The Seeds and Fruits of Infamy
For decades the prevailing view among historians has been that because the American people were too stubborn and stupid to concern themselves with foreign wars, President Franklin Roosevelt had to lie for a noble cause—namely, waging war against imperialist Japan and Nazi Germany. Seldom have historians asked themselves why Americans would want to stay out [...]
30Nov2011 | Jim Powell | 5 comments | ContinuedChurchill, 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 [...]
11Jun2009 | Robert Higgs | 71 comments | ContinuedLudwig von Mises and the Vienna of His Time – Part II
From the time of World War I, Ludwig von Mises’s writings expressed the classical-liberal cosmopolitan conception of man, society, and freedom. Throughout the interwar period his works on the general principles of the liberal market order, the dangerous dead end to which socialist society would lead, and the contradictions and corrupting influences of economic interventionism [...]
1Apr2005 | Richard M. Ebeling | 0 comments | ContinuedBook Reviews – December 2003
Stalin’s Other War: Soviet Grand Strategy, 1939–1941 by Albert L. Weeks Rowman & Littlefield • 2002 • 201 pages • $60 hardcover; 24.95 paperback Reviewed by Richard M. Ebeling For most of the period since the end of World War II the general interpretation about the role of the Soviet Union in the events leading up to the beginning of [...]
1Dec2003 | FEE Admin | 0 comments | ContinuedAlbert Speer: His Battle With Truth
Ever since the appearance in 1944 of F. A. Hayek’s masterpiece, The Road to Serfdom, it has been generally accepted that it is always “the worst” who get to the top in an interventionist/socialist society. But so do some of the best and the brightest. We know about the thugs and sadists who surrounded Adolf [...]
1Mar1996 | Bettina Bien Greaves | 1 comment | Continued-
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