It is only with government help—in the form of subsidies, restrictions on potential rivals, and the like—that business can exploit the public in any meaningful sense. That
But it would be about tolerating dissent. Now, movies or plays, pieces of art about dissent, they always, I think, flatter the author and they flatter the audience. WOODS: Yeah. KAUFFMAN: Because,...
Stock market as measured by the Dow did decrease 25% between 1969 and 1971
The Far Right is less interested in Burkean immunities from government power than it is in putting a maximum of governmental power in the hands of those who can be trusted. It is control of power, not...
Since the Fed was established in 1913 the dollar has lost 95 percent of its value.
No longer does it make sense for an inventor to ask himself, Can I make a better mousetrap? because the threat is greater that the government might ban his mousetrap, however safe and efficient it is.
Twenty years ago, as I was completing my freshman year in college, I was a full-blown neoconservative. Except I didn’t know it. Having concluded that I was not a leftist, I simply decided by process o...
The economy which prefers fictitious money to real, is, at best, like that which prefers a leaky ship to a sound one.
The biggest anachronism, usually, in a historical movie is, again, the author doesn’t want to be thought to in any way share the social conventions or whatever of the time, so there’s always this auct...
Nisbet could find much to disturb a traditional conservative even in the rhetoric of Ronald Reagan: President Reagan’s deepest soul is not Republican-conservative but New Deal-Second World War Democra...
Madison wrote in Federalist #41, For what purpose could the enumeration of particulars be inserted, if these and all others were meant to be included in the preceding general power? In 1792, he said:...
Less extreme leftists have been no less enthusiastic for war’s potential to transform the home front, Nisbet added. Leftist intellectuals were practically unanimous in favoring U.S. entry into World W...
Another example I used in the article, I got from watching the old movie Gandhi. The British – who are basically very moral people – were willing to assault Indians who just wanted to make salt in the...
In all of the world of Islam, the masses now regard the United States as their arrogant adversary;
[Isaiah] preached to the masses only in the sense that he preached publicly. Anyone who liked might listen; anyone who liked might pass by. He knew that the Remnant would listen; and knowing also that...
The lingering effects of war can inspire callousness even after the guns have fallen silent. Many of us have seen the notorious clip from 60 Minutes in which Madeleine Albright, then U.S. ambassador t...
The dot-com and housing bubbles can both be explained by artificial credit expansion, say such economists.
It’s one thing to describe someone as a voice crying in the wilderness, but that doesn’t quite capture Laurence Vance and his work. Vance is a voice crying in a soundproof sarcophagus on the moon.
Behavior that Christians would never support in any other context suddenly becomes perfectly acceptable, even praiseworthy, simply because the state has declared that a war is under way. (That’s what...
The war was fought to prevent the secession, not to free the slaves. People who took up arms in the South did so because they were being invaded.