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Presidential Role Model
On this President’s Day weekend, let us commemorate the record of the best president in U.S. history: John Tyler. A random poll of Americans would draw mostly puzzled looks at the name, but according...
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Robert Higgs on Why Government Is Prolonging the Economic Crisis
In a new article for the Gannett newspapers, “Is this any way to run a government?”, Chuck Raasch interviews Robert Higgs, Senior Fellow at the Independent Institute and author of the book, Depression,...
View ArticleYou Must Own This Book: Great Wars and Great Leaders
Anyone who thinks that they know anything about World War I, Harry S Truman, or Winston Churchill should first read Great Wars and Great Leaders: A Libertarian Rebuttal by Ralph Raico. Once they do,...
View ArticlePaul Krugman: “Space Aliens Could Save U.S. Economy”
As Dave Barry used to say, I’m not making this up. Deeply mired in the fatally flawed myth that World War II ended the Great Depression, Nobel Laureate Paul Krugman yesterday proposed that an invasion...
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Robert Higgs Is Interviewed on The Peter Schiff Show on the Folly of...
Senior Fellow Robert Higgs is interviewed here by Thomas Woods on “The Peter Schiff Show.” Dr. Higgs discusses how the federal government prolonged and deepened the Great Depression of the 1930s that...
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Terrorism by Any Reasonable Definition
The mushroom clouds from the 1945 atomic bombings over Hiroshima (left) and Nagasaki (right). Sixty-seven years ago, on August 6, 1945, the Truman administration dropped an atomic bomb on Hiroshima,...
View ArticleHomo Homini Lupus Est
Sixty-seven years ago, World War II ended. In Japan, today’s date is officially designated “the day for mourning of war dead and praying for peace” (戦歿者を追悼し平和を祈念する日 Senbotsusha wo tsuitōshi heiwa wo...
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The U.S.’s Nazi Imports
A Florida appeals panel recently upheld an order to deport General Carlos Eugenio Vides Casanova. A former defense minister of El Salvador, Casanova is accused of gross human rights violations,...
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Faith and Courage on Hacksaw Ridge
With faith comes conviction; with conviction comes courage; with courage comes action; with action comes leadership; with leadership comes social change. That chain could easily encapsulate the main...
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Review: Dunkirk Immerses Viewers in Military Disaster
Dunkirk, Christopher Nolan’s new film about a World War II military disaster that ended up symbolizing the “never give-up spirit” of Britain, may well have established itself as the leading contender...
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Review: Darkest Hour Probes Depths of Political Courage
Darkest Hour probes the depths of political courage under overwhelming odds, focusing on the first few months of Winston Churchill‘s leadership as Prime Minister during World War II. The movie also...
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Paul Richard Theroux (1922 – 2017)
I had the distinct privilege of delivering the eulogy (with my brother Gary) at the memorial service for my late father, Paul Richard Theroux, on Saturday, June 23, 2018, at Sylvan Abbey Funeral Home,...
View ArticleBlazing Blaster Buyback BS
As NBC News reports, presidential candidate Beto O’Rourke is pushing “mandatory buybacks of certain semi-automatic weapons.” His plan would “ban weapons classified as ‘assault weapons’ as well as...
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W. Dieter Tede (1933-2019)
W. Dieter Tede (1933-2019) I was privileged to present a tribute at the memorial celebration for the life of Wolfgang Dieter Tede, on Saturday, October 19, 2019, at the St. Francis Yacht Club in San...
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Coronacrisis and Leviathan
In his magisterial Crisis and Leviathan, Robert Higgs shows that the growth of government in the twentieth century can largely be explained by patterns of crisis and response. These crises can be real...
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