The Art of Budget Cutting by James Ostrowski April 1, 1995 The new Republican majority in Congress will have its integrity severely tested when it decides the fate of the National Endowment for the Arts (NEA). The Republicans got elected on one basic promise — to cut the size of the national government. It is difficult to think of another federal program that so richly deserves to be axed. That ...
Book Review: Dead Right by Richard M. Ebeling April 1, 1995 Dead Right by David Frum (New York: A New Republic Book/Basic Books, 1994); 230 pages; $23.00. The congressional Republicans are approaching the end of their first one hundred days, during which they promised to implement much of the legislation in their Contract with America, a contract that they said would usher in a "historic change" that would bring about "the end ...
Repatriation — The Dark Side of World War II, Part 2 by Jacob G. Hornberger March 1, 1995 Part 1 | Part 2 | Part 3 | Part 4 | Part 5 | Part 6 | Part 7 Hitler, Stalin, Roosevelt, Churchill, and Truman shared two things in common — their philosophical belief on the role of government in economic activity and their participation in the mass murder of millions of innocent ...
Covering the Map of the World — The Half-Century Legacy of the Yalta Conference, Part 2 by Richard M. Ebeling March 1, 1995 Part 1 | Part 2 | Part 3 | Part 4 | Part 5 | Part 6 | Part 7 | Part 8 | Part 9 On the evening of February 8, 1945-the fifth day of the Yalta Conference — the Big Three — Franklin D. Roosevelt, Winston Churchill, and Joseph Stalin ...
American Foreign Policy — The Turning Point, 1898–1919 Part 2 by Ralph Raico March 1, 1995 Part 1 | Part 2 | Part 3 | Part 4 | Part 5 | Part 6 The year 1898 was a landmark in American history. It was the year America went to war with Spain — our first engagement with a foreign enemy in the dawning age of modern warfare. Aside from a few ...
World War II and the Triumph of Keynesianism by Robert Higgs March 1, 1995 War, everybody says, is hell. But many Americans do not really believe this truism, especially when the war in question is World War II. Of course, for the men who had to endure the horrors of combat, the war was terrible — just how terrible, hundreds of thousands of them did not live to say. But the great majority ...
As Capitalism Wins, the U.S. Drops Out by Theodore J. Forstmann March 1, 1995 American political and economic life has entered a twilight zone. As countries everywhere are embracing capitalism, the United States, unfortunately, is moving toward democratic socialism. As I travel the world, the irony could not be more profound. I've been to Mexico to talk about free-market reform, to Russia and Eastern Europe — to meet with young entrepreneurs, and all over ...
Book Review: The Politics of Envy by Richard M. Ebeling March 1, 1995 The Politics of Envy: Statism as Theology by Doug Bandow (New Brunswick, N.J.: Transaction Books, 1994); 338 pages; $19.95. In his recent book, The Politics of Envy: Statism as Theology, Doug Bandow analyzes the destructive effect of envy in the contemporary world. "e live in an age of envy," he says. The problem is not that people simply want ...
Repatriation — The Dark Side of World War II, Part 1 by Jacob G. Hornberger February 1, 1995 Part 1 | Part 2 | Part 3 | Part 4 | Part 5 | Part 6 | Part 7 When Hitler's forces invaded the Soviet Union in June 1941, millions of Russians welcomed and embraced the Nazi military forces. In many instances, Russian soldiers willingly surrendered to the Germans. The German invasion of ...
Covering the Map of the World — The Half-Century Legacy of the Yalta Conference, Part 1 by Richard M. Ebeling February 1, 1995 Part 1 | Part 2 | Part 3 | Part 4 | Part 5 | Part 6 | Part 7 | Part 8 | Part 9 In the late afternoon of February 4, 1945, the "Big Three" of the Allied side in World War II — Franklin D. Roosevelt, Winston Churchill, and ...
The Roots of World War II by Sheldon Richman February 1, 1995 It is commonly thought that the 20th century witnessed two world wars. It would be more accurate to say that the century had but one world war — with a 21-year intermission. To put it another way, World War II grew out of World War I; indeed, it was made virtually inevitable by it. More ...
American Foreign Policy — The Turning Point, 1898–1919, Part 1 by Ralph Raico February 1, 1995 Part 1 | Part 2 | Part 3 | Part 4 | Part 5 | Part 6 With the end of the twentieth century rapidly approaching, this is a time to look back and gain some perspective on where we stand as a nation. Were the Founding Fathers somehow to return, they would find it impossible to recognize our political ...