Rethinking Churchill

November 14, 2008 8:05 AM by Ralph Raico

Churchill was from first to last a Man of the State, of the welfare state and of the warfare state. War, of course, was his lifelong passion; and, as an admiring historian has written: "Among his other claims to fame, Winston Churchill ranks as one of the founders of the welfare state." Thus, while Churchill never had a principle he did not in the end betray, this does not mean that there was no slant to his actions, no systematic bias. There was, and that bias was towards lowering the barriers to state power. FULL ARTICLE

Was Keynes a Liberal?

September 11, 2008 11:42 AM by Ralph Raico

The Independent Review has made my article on this topic available here.

Guido's Book Is a Magnificent Work of Scholarship

September 5, 2007 11:19 AM by Ralph Raico

I'm would like to add my voice to the celebration over the publication of Mises: The Last Knight of Liberalism.

It is a magnificent work of scholarship, not only definitive on Mises's life and works, but also brilliantly delineating the Vienna of the time, the development of the Austrian school, the place of other thinkers like Hayek, and Mises's contributions to American and world libertarianism.

I'll be picking up a copy of Guido's book at the conference of the Mises Institute in New York, in October. With luck, I'll be able to get Guido to autograph it for me.