Referring to democracy, "The will of men is not shattered, but softened, bent, and guided. Men are seldom forced by it to act, but they are constantly restrained from acting. Such a power does not destroy, but it prevents existence. It does not tyrannize, but it compresses, enervates, extinguishes, and stupefies a people, until each nation is reduced to be nothing better than a flock of timid and industrious animals, of which the government is the shepherd."
November 8, 2023 Israeli Officials Are Right About Hiroshima and Nagasaki
In an effort to justify the Israeli government’s massive infliction of death and destruction on the people of Gaza, the New York Timesreports that “Israeli officials privately invoked the 1945 U.S atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki” in conversations with U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken....
The Austrian Economists and Classical Liberalism by Richard M. Ebeling
The Austrian School of Economics has been widely identified with classical-liberal and free-market ideas. This is especially the case in the writings of Ludwig ...
Authoritarians Drunk on Power by John W. Whitehead
We have arrived at the dystopian future depicted in the 2005 film V for Vendetta, which is no future at all. Set in the year...
The Classical Economists: David Ricardo by Jacob Hornberger and Richard Ebeling
In this week's Libertarian Angle, Jacob and Richard discuss the significance of the classical economist David Ricardo. Go ...
