All Posts Tagged With: "patriotism"

Give Up? Are You Kidding?

We should not squander a second feeling bad for ourselves. This is a moment when our true character, the stuff we’re really made of, will show itself. If we retreat, that would tell me we were never really worthy of the battle in the first place. But if we resolve to let these tough times build character and rally our dispirited friends to new levels of dedication, we will look back on this occasion someday with pride at how we handled it.

17Jun2009 | Lawrence W. Reed | 7 comments | Continued

The Costs of War: America’s Pyrrhic Victories edited by John V. Denson

Transaction Publishers • 1997 • 450 pages • $44.95 cloth; $29.95 paperback
Doug Bandow is a senior fellow at the Cato Institute and author of Tripwire: Korea and U.S. Foreign Policy in a Changed World. He formerly served as a special assistant to President Reagan.
Advocates of limited government have long known that war and preparation for [...]

1Feb1999 | Doug Bandow | 0 comments | Continued

Flags, Flames, and Property

Andrew Cohen teaches philosophy at the University of Wisconsin, Stevens Point.
A constitutional amendment that would forbid the desecration of American flags is again percolating in the nation’s capital. As of this writing, the immediate prospects for passage look bleak. But this amendment has a way of never fully going away. Many opponents of the measure [...]

1Jan1999 | Andrew I. Cohen | 0 comments | Continued