Every violation of truth is not only a sort of suicide in the liar, but is a stab at the health of human society. –Ralph Waldo Emerson, Prudence [1841]
HORNBERGER’S BLOG
September 1, 2023 The Cancer Within
Imagine that your doctor finds a huge cancerous tumor on your colon, which has produced a few smaller tumors in the rest of your body. The doctor removes the smaller tumors but leaves the big one alone. A few months later, the doctor finds a few more tumors on other parts of your body, which he then removes. Every few months, the same …
The Myth of NATO as a Defensive Alliance
by Ted Galen Carpenter
Western leaders have long fostered the self-serving myth that NATO is an organization solely for the mutual defense of its members. …
Macaulay and My 75-Cent Epiphanies, Part 1
by James Bovard
Fearing that my writing style was becoming anemic, I recently sought a literary booster shot from my bookshelves. Happily, a dozen volumes of Thomas …
The Tragedy in Hawaii
by Jacob G. Hornberger and Richard M. Ebeling
In this week’s Libertarian Angle, Jacob and Richard discuss the role of government in emergencies and crises, …
“Tax Expenditures” Is a Misnomer
by Laurence M. Vance
The April 18 deadline for Americans to file their 2022 income tax returns had hardly passed before House Republicans began to talk about reviving …