Either some Caesar or Napoleon will seize the reins of government with a strong hand, or your republic will be as fearfully plundered and laid waste by barbarians in the twentieth century as the Roman Empire was in the fifth, with this difference, that the Huns and Vandals who ravaged the Roman Empire came from without, and that your Huns and Vandals will have been engendered within your own country by your own institutions.
– Thomas Babington Macaulay, Letter to Henry Stephens Randall [1857]
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October 29, 2019 The Never-Ending Wars on Terrorism and Drugs
Not long after President George W. Bush declared a “war on terrorism,” I wrote that this war would end up being as perpetual as the federal government’s war on drugs. Some 18 years later, the U.S. government’s killing of Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi in Syria confirms how right I was. After all, given all the media hype ...
The Pathocracy of the Deep State
by John W. Whitehead
Twenty years ago, a newspaper headline asked the question: “What’s the difference between a politician and a psychopath?”...
Collectivist Revivalism and the New Attack on Liberty
by Richard M. Ebeling
America and some other parts of the world are facing a “revivalist” movement, but rather than being a religious revival, it is an ideological ...
Wake-Up Call On The Syrian Border
by David Stockman
Syria has been turned into the most wretched of neighborhoods on the planet by Washington’s neocons and liberal interventionists. From its pre-2011 population of ...
