Posts Tagged ‘ war ’

Why TSA, Wars, State Defined Diets, Seat-Belt Laws, the War On Drugs, Police Brutality, and Efforts to Control the Internet, Are Essential to the State

Jun 10th, 2011 | By | Category: Featured, Politics
The title of this article encompasses topics that arouse attention and criticism among persons of libertarian persuasion. The discussion of such matters usually treats each issue as though it were sui generis, independent of one another. Most of us respond as though the woman who is groped at the airport ...read more

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Afghanistan, Iraq, Collateral Damage and the Banality of Killing

Jan 14th, 2011 | By | Category: Featured, International, Politics
The standard explanations for the Arizona killings are now being set forth, such as widespread violence in America and right-wing extremism. I’d like to weigh in with another possible factor, one that I can’t prove but one that I think Americans ought to at least consider: the fact that killing ...read more

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It’s Not Just Neocon Stupidity Anymore

Mar 29th, 2010 | By | Category: Featured, Macro Economics, Politics
More than seven years ago – what seems to be an eternity now – Charles Krauthammer spoke to a Hillsdale College gathering which was celebrating the “success” of the U.S. war in Afghanistan and was about to celebrate the “success” of the U.S. invasion of Iraq. I read the speech ...read more

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The Life and Wars of General Curtis Lemay, Part IV: Vietnam and President Johnson

Oct 12th, 2009 | By | Category: Featured, Morning Whiskey
From what deep wells of events flow the rivers of our time? By what path did the muse of history arrive here, at our front door? Where are the roots, for example, of monetary inflation? What pushed the U.S. into its modern de-industrialization? Along what road did the world travel ...read more

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Industrial Slaughter and War: The March of Progress

Aug 14th, 2009 | By | Category: Featured, Politics
In science and technology, knowledge builds up as people make new mistakes: Technology may, like digits in an actuarial table, improve and compound, accumulating gradually over time. But in love, finance, and the rest of life, people make the same old mistakes, over and over again. As soon as the ...read more

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Foundations of Crisis, Part III: War (So What’s Next?)

Jan 21st, 2009 | By | Category: Featured, Politics
The real watersheds in history, crises that make or break a civilization, occur roughly every 100 years. The most recent ones in American history that will resonate without looking up the facts in a reference book are the Revolution, circa 1782; the Civil War, circa 1863; and WW II, circa ...read more

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