American Statism and the Holocaust

By Jacob Hornberger Weighing in on the Helen Thomas controversy, Washington Post columnist Richard Cohen made an interesting observation as to one of the reasons that post-World War II Jews looked to the establishment of Israel as a safe haven for Jews. Cohen stated, “For most of the DPs [displaced persons], America was also out [...]

Bursting the Myths of the Great Depression

By George C. Leef The Politically Incorrect Guide to the Great Depression and the New Deal by Robert P. Murphy (Regnery, 2009); 272 pages. Government of all kind depends on elaborate mythologies to keep the people complacent in the face of constant attacks on their liberty, their property, and even their lives. Kings used to [...]

Hemp for Victory!

By Patrick Reagan This past week, hemp advocates and aficionados nationwide engaged in educational and awareness building exercises during their annual “Hemp History Week”. The aim was to enlighten the public’s perception of hemp by demonstrating its versatility in several facets of everyday life and drawing attention to its pivotal role in American agriculture up [...]

Forgotten Facts of American Labor History

By Tom Woods Just about everything that people think they know about labor unions and wage rates is wrong. The standard tale that practically every student hears over the course of his education is that before the emergence of labor unions, American workers were terribly exploited and their wages were consistently falling. The improvement in [...]

Were American Indians Really Environmentalists?

By Tom Woods The traditional story is familiar to American schoolchildren: the American Indians possessed a profound spiritual kinship with nature, and were unusually solicitous of environmental welfare. According to a popular book published by the Smithsonian Institution in 1991, “Pre-Columbian America was still the First Eden, a pristine natural kingdom. The native people were [...]

Who was the real Lincoln?

By Thomas J. DiLorenzo In the December 29, 2003, issue of The Weekly Standard, senior editor Andrew Ferguson discusses the controversy surrounding the new Lincoln statue that was erected in Richmond, Virginia, last April. Ferguson makes a weak attempt to appear objective by mentioning a few of the reasons why there were objections to the [...]

The Income Tax and American Servitude

By Jacob Hornberger With April 15 almost upon us, this would be a good time to remind ourselves of how the income tax contributed to the destruction of American liberty. We should first keep in mind that with the exception of the Civil War, the American people lived without an income tax from the beginning [...]

What Caused Liberty to Triumph?

By Jeff Riggenbach [This article is transcribed from the Libertarian Tradition podcast episode "Timothy Ferris and Lynn Hunt: The Cause of Liberty."] Timothy Ferris is a science writer and documentary filmmaker whose articles and essays have appeared in Rolling Stone, The New Yorker, National Geographic, Playboy, The New York Review of Books, Forbes, Smithsonian, Harper’s, [...]

They Were Just Following Orders

There They Crucified Him By Laurence M. Vance “And when they were come to the place, which is called Calvary, there they crucified him, and the malefactors, one on the right hand, and the other on the left.” ~ Luke 23:33 They didn’t just crucify him; they scourged him, stripped him, put a purple robe [...]

“What Sort of Despotism Democratic Nations Have to Fear”

By Sheldon Richman The prophetic Tocqueville I took the title from volume 2, section 4, chapter 6 of Alexis de Tocqueville’s Democracy in America. That chapter has been quoted many times in many places. But considering what has been happening legislatively of late (and not just in the last year-plus), it seems like a good [...]

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