All Posts Tagged With: "totalitarianism"
Psychiatry in a Communist Utopia
Miguel Faria, Jr., M.D., is editor-in-chief of the Medical Sentinel, published by the Association of American Physicians and Surgeons, and author of Medical Warrior: Fighting Corporate Socialized Medicine. I recently read a book that should shock freedom-loving and civil-liberty-loving readers, even the libertarians, Objectivists, and Americans of other political persuasions who (thanks to Dr. Thomas [...]
1Nov2000 | Miguel A. Faria Jr. | 2 comments | ContinuedMere Isolationism: The Foreign Policy of the Old Right
One of the “lost causes” to which libertarians are attached—and one of the most important—is that of the “isolationist” Old Right. As used by the late Murray Rothbard, among others, the term “Old Right” refers to a loose coalition opposed to the New Deal in both its domestic and foreign aspects. While not following a [...]
1Feb2000 | Joseph R. Stromberg | 0 comments | ContinuedTwo Indispensable Lessons
The 1900s are now history. I say “1900s” rather than “twentieth century” to avoid irritating those sticklers for precision who note that the final day of the twentieth century is December 31, 2000, and not December 31, 1999. I agree, too, with sticklers of another sort who point out that, because time measurement is a [...]
1Jan2000 | Donald J. Boudreaux | 0 comments | ContinuedThe Commanding Heights: The Battle Between Government and the Marketplace That Is Remaking the World by Daniel Yergin and Joseph Stanislaw
Simon and Schuster • 1998 • 352 pages • $26.00 The danger in telling a good story is often the sacrifice of key facts, thereby distorting the reader’s understanding of reality. In The Commanding Heights, authors Daniel Yergin and Joseph Stanislaw describe the epic twentieth-century conflict between socialists and market advocates. This is an extremely [...]
1Jan1999 | David L. Littmann | 0 comments | ContinuedThe Danger of Deifying the State
Until this afternoon, I had planned to write this month about the folly of Social Security, or about the perils of central banking, or about the internal contradictions of government regulation; I forget which, exactly. I forget because a far more interesting topic sprang to mind a few hours ago: my son, 15-month-old Thomas Macaulay [...]
1Nov1998 | Donald J. Boudreaux | 0 comments | ContinuedMurderous Nostalgia
Doug Bandow, a nationally syndicated columnist, is a senior fellow at the Cato Institute and the author and editor of several books, including Tripwire: Korea and U.S. Foreign Policy in a Changed World. Among America’s more significant actors and singers was Paul Robeson, born a century ago. His centennial is being celebrated with film retrospectives, [...]
1Nov1998 | Doug Bandow | 2 comments | ContinuedSocial Justice
The pursuit of social justice probably accounts for most human misery. What’s more, throughout history, one form of injustice has usually been replaced by another that is far worse. Russia’s 1917 revolution expelling the Czars and their injustices ushered in Lenin, Stalin, and a succession of brutal dictators who murdered tens of millions in the name of the proletarian revolution.
1Jul1998 | Walter E. Williams | 0 comments | ContinuedThe Mont Pelerin Society’s 50th Anniversary
Greg Kaza serves in the Michigan House of Representatives (42nd District) and is also an adjunct professor at Northwood University. This year marks the 50th anniversary of the founding of the Mont Pelerin Society, one of this century’s most important groups of free-market intellectuals. The world was a quite different place when 36 free-market thinkers [...]
1Jun1997 | Greg Kaza | 0 comments | ContinuedBook Review: The Christian as Citizen by John C. Bennettook
New York: Association Press. 93 pages. $1.25. John C. Bennett is Dean of New York’s Union Theological Seminary and one of the leaders of the movement to apply Gospel precepts to the ordering of society by means of a politically planned economy. This notion, popularly known as the Social Gospel, finds expression through the social [...]
1Apr1956 | Edmund A. Opitz | 0 comments | Continued-
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