If you favor federal intervention at home, you’re a “liberal.” If you favor federal intervention abroad, you’re a “conservative.” If you favor both, you’re a “moderate.” If you favor neither, you’re an “extremist."
– Joseph Sobran
HORNBERGER'S BLOG
February 11, 2020 Brain Injuries from Interventionism
The number of U.S. soldiers who have suffered traumatic brain injuries from the Iranian missile attack last month in Iraq has now risen to more than 100. The injuries demonstrate the sheer inanity of foreign interventionism. The Austrian economist Ludwig von Mises pointed out that when a government intervenes in economic affairs, the intervention inevitably produces a bad result, which then requires another intervention to ...
Compulsory Education - The Bane of Learning and Freedom
by Christine Smith
Approximately 50-million students, bound by state compulsory attendance laws, are trapped in what is essentially a prison of their bodies and minds. Most Americans never ...
He Who Pays the Piper Calls the Tune
by Laurence M. Vance
Public education has survived another National School Choice Week. Since 2011, National School Choice Week (NSCW) has been celebrated the last week in January. ...
The Ongoing Consequences of the Yalta Conference
by Jacob G. Hornberger and Richard M. Ebeling
In February of 1945, Franklin Delano Roosevelt, Joseph Stalin, and Winston Churchill met on the Crimean peninsula ...
The Mixed Economy Is a Mess
by Richard M. Ebeling
Election years tend to polarize people’s views about political parties, proposed social and economic policies, and the candidates running for high governmental office. This ...
Ice and Fire
by Laurence M. Vance
The relationship between conservatism and libertarianism is a tenuous one. However, such was not always the case. Fellow travelers of both groups were united ...
