Events of U.S. history after Columbus’ re-discovery of America in 1492 AD
By Robert Higgs â™ May 1, 1995
Robert Higgs is research director for the Independent Institute in Oakland, California, the author of Crisis and Leviathan, and the editor of Arms, Politics, and the Economy. This essay is reprinted from the May 1995 issue of Freedom Daily, published monthly by the Future of Freedom Foundation (FFF), 11350 Random Hills Rd., Ste. 800, Fairfax,…
By Donald Neff â™ February 1, 1996
Donald Neff is author of the recently published Fallen Pillars: U.S. Policy Toward Palestine and Israel since 1945, as well as of the 1988 trilogy, Warriors at Suez: Eisenhower Takes America Into the Middle East in 1956, Warriors for Jerusalem: The Six Days that Changed the Middle East, and Warriors Against Israel: America Comes to…
By Nicholas Strakon â™ April 1, 1995
Nicholas Strakon is the pen name of the editor of Dispatches from The Last Ditch, a newsletter. (P.O. Box 224, Roanoke, IN 46783. $42 for twelve issues. Free sample available on request.) “Who Bombs Children?” and “The Bombardier's Song” are reprinted from the April-May 1995 issue. After the Oklahoma City bombing, ordinary Americans all over…
By Thomas Dilorenzo â™ March 1, 1995
Thomas DiLorenzo is professor of economics at Loyola College in Baltimore, and an adjunct scholar of the Ludwig von Mises Institute (Auburn, Ala. 36849-5301). This essay is reprinted from the October 1994 issue of The Free Market, a monthly newsletter published by the Mises Institute. The NAACP is threatening to boycott South Carolina businesses unless…
By Joseph Sobran â™ November 1, 1994
Joseph Sobran is a nationally-syndicated columnist, author and lecturer. He is a former senior editor of National Review, and currently Washington, DC, correspondent for The Wanderer and the Rothbard-Rockwell Report. He edits a monthly newsletter, Sobran's (c/o Griffin Communications, P.O. Box 565, Herndon, VA 22070). These essays first appeared in the June 2, July 21,…
By Andrew Clarke â™ September 1, 1994
Burden of Empire, by Garet Garrett. Introduction by Theodore J. O'Keefe. Newport Beach, Calif.: Noontide Press, 1993. Softcover. 178 pages. ISBN: 0-939482-42-8. (Available through the IHR for $9.50, plus $2 shipping) [check www.ihr.org for current availability and price; ed.]. Andrew Clarke is the pen name of a recent graduate of the University of Pennsylvania. Born…
By Andrew Clarke â™ September 1, 1994
Reclaiming the American Right: The Lost Legacy of the Conservative Movement, by Justin Raimondo. Foreword by Patrick J. Buchanan. Burlingame, Calif.: Center for Libertarian Studies (P.O. Box 4091, Burlingame, CA 94011), 1993. Softcover. 289 pages. Notes. Bibliography. Index. $17.95. ISBN: 1-883959-00-4. Much attention has been given in recent years to ideological quarrels among factions of…
By Joseph Sobran â™ September 1, 1994
Joseph Sobran is a nationally-syndicated columnist, author and lecturer. He is a former senior editor of National Review, and currently Washington, DC, correspondent for The Wanderer and the Rothbard-Rockwell Report. This essay first appeared in Capitol Hill Voice, Jan.-Feb. 1994. Most Americans are taught, and assume, that we still live under the Constitution of the…
By Andrew Gray â™ July 1, 1994
Turmoil and Triumph: My Years as Secretary of State, by George P. Shultz. New York: Scribner's, 1993. Hardcover. 1184 pages. Photographs. Index. $30.00. ISBN 0-684-19325-6. A hefty tome, but after all, George Shultz is an ex-professor, and obviously does not wish to be outdone by Dr. Kissinger. Buried in this long and discursive text, however,…
By Theodore J. O'Keefe â™ January 1, 1994
Screening History, by Gore Vidal. Cambridge, Mass: Harvard Univ. Press, 1992. Hardcover. 97 pages. Photographs. ISBN 0-674-79586-5. Few contemporary American writers pretending to serious literature have boasted as wide a range of concerns, poses, feuds and accomplishments as Gore Vidal. He’s run the gamut from littĂ©rateur (novelist, playwright, essayist, screenwriter) to unsuccessful politician (Democratic candidate…
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