Everyone knows that the Revolution and our present happy establishment were founded upon the principle of resistance.
– Earl of Egmont [1753]
HORNBERGER'S BLOG
February 3, 2023
What Does "Unprovoked" Mean?
Note the following sentence in a New York Times news story yesterday by Michael Schwirtz and Anton Troianovski about Russia’s invasion of Ukraine: “Mr. Putin’s attempt to put a veneer of nobility on an unprovoked invasion that has killed thousands of civilians and turned millions more into refugees was made in the Russian city once known as Stalingrad, on the 80th anniversary of a ...
The Wealth of Nations
by Jacob G. Hornberger and Richard M. Ebeling
Why are some nations wealthier than other nations? Adam Smith addressed this question in his opus of ...
The War on Consumption
by Laurence M. Vance
Although Americans believe that they live in a free county — some would even say the freest country on earth — that freedom is ...
Freedom of Conscience
by Laurence M. Vance
Libertarian philosopher and historian George H. Smith (1949–2022), in his collection of essays titled Freethought and Freedom, incisively remarked that “without freedom of conscience ...
What to Do about California's Mass Killings
by Jacob G. Hornberger and Richard M. Ebeling
What do we do about the latest spate of mass killings in California, which has some the ...
