Civil liberties are a great heritage for Americans. They are not rights that the government gives to the people, they are the rights that the people carved out for themselves when they created the government.
-- Edward Bennett Williams
HORNBERGER'S BLOG
October 30, 2020 No Debate Over the Welfare-Warfare State
Unfortunately, there has been no debate and discussion in the 2020 presidential race over the two greatest infringements on the liberty and well-being of the American people — the welfare state and the national-security state. That shouldn’t surprise us though given that both Republicans and Democrats, along with the mainstream press, are so wedded to the New Deal/Great Society revolution that began ...
Capitalism vs. Slavery
by Phil Magness, Jacob G. Hornberger, and Richard M. Ebeling
Have you ever thought about the relationship between 19th-century capitalism and 19th-century slavery? Special guest Phil Magness, ...
Unmasking Paul Krugman's Misrepresentation of Ayn Rand
by Richard M. Ebeling
“How Many Americans Will Ayn Rand Kill?” When New York Times columnist Paul Krugman’s article for October 22, 2020 was first posted on the ...
Something Wicked This Way Comes
by John W. Whitehead
Things are falling apart. How much longer we can sustain the fiction that we live in a constitutional republic, I cannot say, but anarchy is...
The Tortured Legacy of the Mexican-American War, Part 6
by Danny Sjursen
It was an odd peace, negotiated by a once-trusted, Democratic Party loyalist who, though appointed by Polk himself, soon turned against the war, ...
Court Packing in the Supreme Court
by Jacob G. Hornberger and Richard M. Ebeling
If President Trump's nominee for the Supreme Court, Amy Coney Barrett, receives Senate confirmation, will this cause ...
