That Death Toll
Yes, we've all heard the clichés about the greater good. I've never met a serial killer, a sniper, or the leader of a suicide cult. But I'm willing to bet that they too believe that they served a greater good.
War and Foreign Policy
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A Century of War: Lincoln, Wilson, and Roosevelt
The twentieth century was the bloodiest in all history. More than 170 million people were killed by government with 10 million having been killed in World War I and 50 million killed in World War II. Of the 50 million killed in World War II, nearly 70 percent were innocent civilians.
Is Iraq safer today?
The ink was barely dry on the quoted predictions that the killing of Abu Musab al-Zarqawi in Iraq would reduce violence and begin to normalize poli
Free Speech and Dissent During Wartime
Special lecture presented at the Mises Institute on 6 June 2006.
1. Lincoln’s Tariff War
There exists a vitriolic Lincoln Cult who cannot countenance that Lincoln might have been motivated by money and power in engaging in the Tariff dispute which began in 1824.
The State in the Dock
Under what law should the heads of governments be tried? Lew Rockwell writes that if they are tried according to every-day moral law, they would all be in big trouble.
The Libertarian Heritage: The American Revolution and Classical Liberalism
The libertarian creed, writes Murray Rothbard, emerged from the "classical liberal" movements of the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries in the Western world.
Sowing the Seeds of the Next Crisis
Thorsten Polleit warns that one should not get carried away by wide spread euphoria.
The Rocky Road of American Taxation
No modern revolution was deeper rooted in taxation than the revolt of the Thirteen Colonies in British North America, writes Charles Adams.
Private Military Corporation Now Offers Brigade-size Force
According to a WorldTribune.com article,
