Twenty Years After Supply-Side Revolution, Washington Still Favors Higher Taxes
By: Paul Craig Roberts|31 December, 2002|Categories: Articles & Columns|Tags: paul craig electric car
The U.S. has the most sophisticated financial markets in the world. Yet, its financial reporters and financial policymakers are anything but sophisticated. In a recent Wall Street Journal article (Dec. 19), reporters Jeffrey Ball and Karen Lundegaard confused depreciation–a business expense–with a reduction in the price of a consumer product. Business owners, the journalists reported, could get up to $21,560…
Read more »Lott Lynching Threatens First, Fourteenth Amendment
The real casualties of the Trent Lott fiasco are the Constitution’s First and Fourteenth Amendments, not the senator himself and the Republican Party’s reputation. America’s heralded First Amendment is fading fast. Many universities have restricted or eliminated all speech that might possibly be interpreted as offensive to members of victim groups. An organization exists, the Foundation for Individual Rights in…
Read more »America's Stake In Christmas
By: Paul Craig Roberts|21 December, 2002|Categories: Articles & Columns|Tags: Christmas . Stake
Christmas is a time of traditions. If you have found time in the rush before Christmas to decorate a tree, you are sharing in a relatively new tradition. Although the Christmas tree has ancient roots, at the beginning of the 20th century only 1 in 5 American families put up a tree. It was 1920 before the Christmas tree became…
Read more »Lott Case Shows Free Speech At A Crossroads In U.S.
By: Paul Craig Roberts|19 December, 2002|Categories: Articles & Columns|Tags: lott case
The difficulty in which Senator Trent Lott finds himself is not really about him. It is about the ability of racial minorities to censor the thoughts and words—including throwaway lines such as Senator Lott used in his birthday tribute to Senator Thurmond—of white people even to the point of destroying their careers. If a U.S. Senator and Senate Majority Leader…
Read more »Hate and Ignorance at Vanderbilt
By: Paul Craig Roberts|18 December, 2002|Categories: Articles & Columns|Tags: charles stratton vanderbilt
Just before Thanksgiving the editor of the Nashville newspaper, The Tennessean, and Vanderbilt University professor Jonathan Farley teamed up to commit a hate crime. Farley wrote, and the Tennessean published, an article that attacked the United Daughters of the Confederacy for what Farley calls “honoring traitors.” Farley’s article brims with hatred of Confederate Army soldiers and their descendants. Farley wrote:…
Read more »Lott A Victim Of The New Feudalism
By: Paul Craig Roberts|16 December, 2002|Categories: Articles & Columns|Tags: new feudalism craig
For three decades the United States has been descending into a feudal legal order. In the ancient feudal system, the differential rights in the legal system were class-based. In the new feudal order, rights are determined by race, gender, and handicapped status. In the old feudalism, the people with the most rights were descendants of warriors. In the new system,…
Read more »Social Security Scam Shows How Immigration Corrupts
By: Paul Craig Roberts|09 December, 2002|Categories: Articles & Columns|Tags: Corrupts . Immigration . Scam . Security . Shows . Social
If the government cannot control the documents it issues, what is the point of issuing more documents, such as a national identity card? Last week U.S. Attorney William S. Duffey Jr. announced the arrest and indictment of Social Security Administration employees in Atlanta, Georgia, for selling Social Security numbers to illegal aliens. The U.S. Attorney’s office described the scheme as…
Read more »European Union Consumes Nations, Threatens U.S.
Europe as we have known it is disappearing. Soon there will be no France, no Germany, no Italy, no Austria, no Spain, no Denmark, no Belgium, no Holland, no Greece, no Ireland, no Great Britain. Every country will be gone. In their place will be the European Union. The sovereign countries of continental Europe and Great Britain are products of…
Read more »Cato And Heritage Foundations Wrong On Freedom
By: Paul Craig Roberts|26 November, 2002|Categories: Articles & Columns|Tags: paul craig roberts cato
The war on terrorism has hardly begun, but it has already demolished the 4th Amendment, an important basis of our civil liberties. To feel more secure against Muslim terrorists, we have made ourselves less secure from government. The Patriot Act and the new Department of Homeland Security override the 4th Amendment “right of the people to be secure in their…
Read more »Abolishing the Nation-State: Liberal Democracy's Final Hour?
By: Paul Craig Roberts|19 November, 2002|Categories: Articles & Columns|Tags: roberts nation state
When the Soviet Union collapsed a decade ago, neoconservatives proclaimed “the end of history,” by which they meant the emergence of an ecumenical world organized by liberal democracy. Noting China’s ambitions and the re-emergence of Islam, skeptics regard the neoconservative thesis as little more than an expression of hope. China and Islam aside, powerful developments within the West itself are…
Read more »At Home And Abroad, This War Is A Leap Into The Dark
By: Paul Craig Roberts|14 November, 2002|Categories: Articles & Columns|Tags: sitepaulcraigroberts.org dark government
The midterm election has given us evil twins–a Department of Homeland Security and a Middle Eastern war. The unintended consequences will be costly to Americans and come back to haunt Republicans and conservatives. One hundred government agencies from 22 departments crammed into an unaccountable bureaucracy of 170,000 civil servants creates less security. Many of these agencies have histories of feuding…
Read more »Class Genocide Down The Memory Hole
By: Paul Craig Roberts|12 November, 2002|Categories: Articles & Columns|Tags: soviet economics
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Read more »Diversity vs. Freedom (contd): The Barton And Alberti Cases
By: Paul Craig Roberts|07 November, 2002|Categories: Articles & Columns|Tags: harvard professor . minimal government . private conversation . sensitivity training . unrestricted immigration
November 07, 2002 What does immigration cost us? At a recent debate in Arlington, Virginia, Harvard Professor George Borjas quoted an estimate of $70 billion a year. He noted, however, that the cost is not evenly distributed. Some communities are heavily impacted with swollen welfare budgets and hospitals on the brink of bankruptcy. Immigration is estimated to cost Californians $1,300…
Read more »Prosecutorial Abuse: The Wenatchee Witch Hunt Unravels Further
By: Paul Craig Roberts|05 November, 2002|Categories: Articles & Columns|Tags: witch hunt roberts
In 1995 I wrote the first of my 28 columns about the Wenatchee, Washington, child sex abuse witch hunt. Before national attention brought a halt to the worst witch hunt in U.S. history, 43 adults were falsely arrested on 29,726 fabricated charges of child sex abuse involving 60 children. Parents, Sunday school teachers and a local pastor were indicted and…
Read more »My Time with Soviet Economics
By: Paul Craig Roberts|29 October, 2002|Categories: Articles & Columns|Tags: soviet growth rates
Published on VDARE.com – October 29, 2002 (Published in The Independent Review, v.VII, n.2, Fall 2002,pp. 259– 264.) The academic study of the Soviet economy was unsuccessful. Several widely held misconceptions contributed to the lack of success. Western economists assumed that economic growth was assured, because the central planning authority controlled the rate of investment. They assumed that the Soviet…
Read more »Abolishing The West (contd.): The Gottfried Analysis
By: Paul Craig Roberts|29 October, 2002|Categories: Articles & Columns|Tags: paulcraigroberts.org feminism
Americans have a wide choice of worries to worry about. We can worry about terrorists, war in the Middle East, snipers, job security, teen shooting sprees, the stock market, political leadership, badly educated kids, political correctness, civil liberties, disease carrying mosquitoes, environmental degradation, sexually active preteens, sexism, racism, reverse discrimination, lawsuits. Just name it. Probably it is a recognized worry.…
Read more »Global Economy Needs More Attention Than Iraq
By: Paul Craig Roberts|15 October, 2002|Categories: Articles & Columns|Tags: Attention . Iraq . Needs . Than
Is the U.S. economy recovering, or is it being held back by its global connections? Japan has been in the doldrums for a dozen years. Now comes a report from the London Telegraph that German banks teeter on the precipice, putting more strains on the global financial system. Germany’s weak economy and spectacular bankruptcies mean billions in loan losses for…
Read more »As Bush Gears Up To Send Army Overseas, American Jobs Are Already There
By: Paul Craig Roberts|10 October, 2002|Categories: Articles & Columns|Tags: roberts bush gear
Obsessed with Saddam Hussein, the Bush administration believes an invasion of Iraq is a winning issue. Meanwhile, the economy continues to drag. The latest statistics show no job growth and no income growth. Low interest rates and home mortgage refinance have cut monthly housing payments, thus permitting consumers to continue spending. However, the stock market has not recovered. The longer…
Read more »Remaking The World – An UnAmerican Activity
By: Paul Craig Roberts|08 October, 2002|Categories: Articles & Columns|Tags: Remaking . UnAmerican
During the latter part of the 18th century, two revolutions erupted, one in 1776 and the other in 1789. Both were conducted in the name of liberty, but they were fundamentally different. After evicting the British with relatively minor bloodshed, the new United States of America settled down to cultivating its own garden. The French, after massacring the upper classes,…
Read more »My Time with Soviet Economics
By: Paul Craig Roberts|07 October, 2002|Categories: Scholarship Summaries|Tags: war communism a re examination paul robert
This article by Paul Craig Roberts appeared in the Fall 2002 issue of The Independent Review. The academic study of the Soviet economy was unsuccessful. Several widely held misconceptions contributed to the lack of success. Western economists assumed that economic growth was assured, because the central planning authority controlled the rate of investment. They assumed that the Soviet economy was…
Read more »Immigration Abolishes American Loyalties; Not A Good Time To Start A World War
By: Paul Craig Roberts|01 October, 2002|Categories: Articles & Columns|Tags: craig roberts immigration
President Bush’s invasion of Iraq will be a strategic mistake with catastrophic consequences for the United States. So concludes a report [pay archive] by William S. Lind of the Free Congress Foundation. Lind argues that the U.S. is attempting to confront terrorism by applying “Second Generation” warfare—essentially the application of firepower to targets—to a “Fourth Generation” conflict. This is a…
Read more »“Fight World War IV” – Or Let Israelis Immigrate?
Neoconservatives are preparing the groundwork for far-reaching and interminable U.S. involvement in the Middle East. Neoconservative leader Norman Podhoretz makes the case in the current issue of Commentary, the influential magazine of the American Jewish Committee, that it is not enough for the U.S. to attack only Afghanistan and Iraq. Podhoretz argues that “changes of regime are the sine qua…
Read more »Invade Iraq – Or Rethink Israel And/Or Immigration?
By: Paul Craig Roberts|17 September, 2002|Categories: Articles & Columns|Tags: immigrant invasion israel
Wars have unintended consequences even for those who win them. Before the U.S. invades Iraq, let us give careful consideration to unintended consequences. The possibility is real that a U.S. invasion would stir up one billion Muslims at a time when the U.S. has run out of both money and belief. Government edifices in the Middle East are built on…
Read more »Should A Country That Can't Defend Its Borders Invade Another?
By: Paul Craig Roberts|10 September, 2002|Categories: Articles & Columns|Tags: united states should defend it's borders
Can a patriot have misgivings about attacking Iraq? Is opposition limited to peaceniks and American-hating multiculturalists? Wars have unintended consequences. Would an American invasion of an Arab country further radicalize the Islamic world, leading to the rise of unfriendly governments in Pakistan, Egypt and Saudi Arabia? Would the U.S. then have to invade a hostile Pakistan because of its nuclear…
Read more »Mugabe Or Harvard: Who Hates Whites More?
By: Paul Craig Roberts|06 September, 2002|Categories: Articles & Columns|Tags: paul craig harvard
Dr. Noel Ignatiev, Harvard academic and founder of the racist magazine, Race Traitor, wants “to abolish the white race.” Dr. Ignatiev [ignatiev@fas.harvard.edu] wants to abolish whites, because he believes whites are loyal to their race and advance their interests at the expense of black people. Apparently, he sees no harm in other races being loyal to their race and even…
Read more »Harvard Hates The White Race?
By: Paul Craig Roberts|04 September, 2002|Categories: Articles & Columns
Is the multicultural campaign really about diversity? Or is it about stamping out Western civilization and the “white race” itself? College students will tell you that a university education today is a guilt trip for whites. The purpose is to prevent whites from appreciating and absorbing their own culture and to make it difficult for whites to resist the unreasonable…
Read more »Issues & Insights
By: Paul Craig Roberts|30 August, 2002|Categories: Articles & Columns|Tags: Insights . Issues
Globalism, End Of Socialism Causes Of Jobless Recovery FOR INVESTOR’S BUSINESS DAILY Friday, August 30, 2002 The Bush administration would benefit from giving a little more thought to the economy and a little less to Iraq. Concerns already existed over the economy having 116,000 fewer jobs as of July than eight months ago, when the recovery supposedly began. Now there…
Read more »A Republican Police State?
By: Paul Craig Roberts|26 August, 2002|Categories: Articles & Columns
[See also Government And The Left Combine In Anthrax Lynching by Sam Francis] Is a vote for a Republican a vote for a police state? Everyone who saw Dr. Steven Hatfill’s Fox News press conference on Sunday, August 25, must be asking themselves this question. Once again the FBI and Department of Justice (sic) are displaying what former Scripps Howard…
Read more »California's Simon – Another Victim Of Prosecutorial Abuse?
By: Paul Craig Roberts|26 August, 2002|Categories: Articles & Columns|Tags: simon governor california tax
Gray Davis is the California governor who cost the state billions by mismanaging California’s energy contracts. He finances 25% of the state’s budget with red ink, and he wants to raise taxes, thereby jeopardizing economic recovery in California. Normally, a governor with such a terrible record would face a poor prospect of reelection. But Davis, with the media’s help, has…
Read more »US Invades Iraq; Cheap Labor Invades US; Economy Suffers
Is President Bush focused on Iraq because he doesn’t know what to do about the economy? The Federal Reserve has cut interest rates dramatically, but there are (as of July) 116,000 fewer jobs now than eight months ago when the recovery supposedly began. The phenomenon of losing jobs during economic recovery marked the 1991 recovery when job loss continued 13…
Read more »“Silence Is No Longer An Option” – Immigration Making Colonies Out Of Nation-States
By: Paul Craig Roberts|13 August, 2002|Categories: Articles & Columns|Tags: colones with different size of content
[VDARE.COM note: London Times' Anthony Browne writes to VDARE.COM about his dramatic article] Will Americans ever escape the gag of political correctness? Probably not, but the English are making a last ditch effort. Last week the London Times published an article by one of its editors titled “Britain is Losing Britain” (August 7). [VDARE.COM note: when this link goes dead,…
Read more »Abolishing America (contd.): Do Whites Have Rights?
By: Paul Craig Roberts|06 August, 2002|Categories: Articles & Columns|Tags: America . Rights? . Whites?
Does anyone remember what the civil rights movement was about? Not today. Four decades later, it is “controversial” if not “racist” to recall that the civil rights movement was about equal opportunity. People were to be hired on the basis of merit and ability alone–”the best person for the job”. No other factor was to play a role. The ink…
Read more »New Evidence on Gun Control II: The British Experience
By: Paul Craig Roberts|30 July, 2002|Categories: Articles & Columns|Tags: sitepaulcraigroberts.org gun control
Second of a two part series [Click here for part I Important New Book Refutes Gun Control Myths] Did you know that a person’s chances of being mugged in London are six times higher than in New York City? Did you know that assault, robbery and burglary rates are far higher in England than in the U.S.? Did you know…
Read more »Important New Book Refutes Gun Control Myths
By: Paul Craig Roberts|27 July, 2002|Categories: Articles & Columns|Tags: book about gun myths
First of a two part series [Click here for part II New Evidence on Gun Control II: The British Experience] Blaming violence on guns and fanning hysteria over accidental deaths to children from firearms are staples of anti-gun propaganda. Media help gun control zealots spread false information that gun ownership and self-defense are certain paths to injury and death. Handgun…
Read more »Government Rules Cause, Not Cure, Corporate Scandal
By: Paul Craig Roberts|23 July, 2002|Categories: Articles & Columns|Tags: the cause of corporate scandals
While Washington fuels—and the media fans—a fiery corporate witch hunt, the economy and investing public burn. The witch hunt permits government to sate, temporarily, its greed for power under the guise of “reform.” The media is the only financial winner: scandal coverage boosts ratings and advertising revenue. Did you know that the current accounting scandals have their origin in government…
Read more »Open Borders For Terrorists = Police State For Citizens
During the Cold War, when the U.S. faced a really dangerous adversary capable of incinerating our entire country in 30 minutes, we kept to our principles, stressing the virtues of a free society over Soviet communism. The Cold War must have sapped our strength. Now, faced with Muslim terrorists who are nothing in comparison to Soviet ICBMs, we have adopted…
Read more »Jail For CEOs – But Not For U.S. Visa Peddlers?
By: Paul Craig Roberts|16 July, 2002|Categories: Articles & Columns|Tags: accounting principles . corporate executives . quarterly earnings . quarterly performance . unintended consequence
Acting on the premise that “business is theft,” the U.S. government has tarred all corporate executives with the misbehavior of a few and is rushing to enact a blanket crackdown on “business fraud.” Before any accounting “reforms” are legislated or new SEC rules handed down, the public and policymakers should come to terms with a basic fact: past “reforms” and…
Read more »Losing the Ties that Bind
By: Paul Craig Roberts|09 July, 2002|Categories: Articles & Columns|Tags: paul craig roberts on divorce
Whatever became of marriage? Cultural conservatives blame the decline of marriage on the sexual revolution, which destroyed the chastity of women. Men don’t marry, say the conservatives, because sex is available outside marriage. There is, of course, something to this view, but it is hardly the whole story. Sex has always been available outside marriage. Call girls are cheaper than…
Read more »Compassionate Tyranny
By: Paul Craig Roberts|25 June, 2002|Categories: Articles & Columns|Tags: Compassionate . Tyranny
John Kenneth Galbraith is not a Republican guru. Try to tell President Bush and Senator John McCain. Both are following Galbraith’s political prescription for “the good society.” Six years ago Professor Galbraith published “The Good Society: The Humane Agenda” in which the good society is defined as one politically organized to coerce “the favored” to work for the poor. The…
Read more »Importing People, Exporting Jobs
By: Paul Craig Roberts|18 June, 2002|Categories: Articles & Columns|Tags: importing people in importing religioons
Recent economic reports indicate that the recovery is struggling to move forward. The main barriers are high consumer indebtedness and mediocre corporate earnings. Consequently, neither consumer demand nor business investment is driving the recovery. Interest rates are low, but Federal Reserve easing has not provided the usual stimulus to spending and equity prices. Part of the problem is the reverse…
Read more »Abolishing America (contd.): Bush's Project Safe Neighborhoods Undermines Rule Of Law
By: Paul Craig Roberts|11 June, 2002|Categories: Articles & Columns|Tags: project safe neighborhoods programs in the suburban community
In 1999 Edward Tenner published “Why Things Bite Back,” a provocative book about the unintended consequences of technology. Someone should write a similar book about law, because the unintended consequences are even more far reaching. Gene Healy, a Cato Institute scholar, recently provided a thorough exploration of the unintended consequences of one law, the new Bush-Ashcroft plan to federalize gun…
Read more »Republicans Spurn Base On Affirmative Action, Immigration
By: Paul Craig Roberts|04 June, 2002|Categories: Articles & Columns|Tags: Base . Immigration . Republicans . Spurn
What is the Republican constituency? This fall’s election, with control of Congress important to Bush’s presidency, makes this question central. There are different ways to answer the question. Partisan Democrats, policy wonks, and campaign advisers have different perspectives. Democrats say the Republican constituency consists of interest groups, such as the rich and environmental polluters. Policy wonks emphasize policy goals, such…
Read more »No-Think Nation VI: Destroying the West with Political Correctness
By: Paul Craig Roberts|28 May, 2002|Categories: Articles & Columns|Tags: Correctness . Destroying . Nation . No-Think . Political . VI: . West
Sixth and final in a series on America’s imperiled future.[I, II, III, IV, V] Does democracy undermine a country’s future by shortening the time-preference of rulers? Does racial diversity produce conflict? Are America’s “two greatest strengths” in fact the country’s two greatest weaknesses? In an important new book, Democracy: The God That Failed political economist Hans Hermann Hoppe makes the…
Read more »No-Think Nation IV: Illegal Immigrant Damage Suit Typifies Law's Collapse
By: Paul Craig Roberts|14 May, 2002|Categories: Articles & Columns|Tags: no the legal system is not damaging the american economy
Fourth in a series on America’s imperiled future.[I, II, III, V, VI] Americans reassure themselves about their country’s competitive future by invoking the U.S. legal system. Americans think that they need not worry about corporations deserting the protection of the U.S. legal system merely to gain access to cheap labor abroad. Americans believe that cheap labor countries are legally undeveloped…
Read more »No-Think Nation III: Time Running Out for the Dollar?
By: Paul Craig Roberts|07 May, 2002|Categories: Articles & Columns|Tags: countless individuals . current account deficit . economic performance . gross domestic product . political stability . preferred currency
Third in a series on America’s imperiled future.[I, II, IV, V, VI] The U.S. current account deficit is running at an annual rate of 4% of Gross Domestic Product. That’s about $1 billion per day. For a number of years the large U.S. current account deficit has been accompanied by a strong dollar. Could the dollar’s strength be coming to…
Read more »Peter Bauer: A Dissenter on Development
By: Paul Craig Roberts|06 May, 2002|Categories: Articles & Columns|Tags: Peter bauer descent of development
One of the chilling facts about the 20th century West is how poorly champions of individual liberty have fared in free societies. They seldom receive state honors. Rarely are they celebrated in academia or the media. One of the 20th century’s great economists, Ludwig von Mises, a refugee from Hitler, could not get a university appointment in America. Mises said…
Read more »Multiculturalism and the No-Think Nation
By: Paul Craig Roberts|30 April, 2002|Categories: Articles & Columns|Tags: american principles . answers to the questions . death of the west . educational system . minorities and women
Second in a series on America’s imperiled future.[I, III, IV, V, VI] Who are we? What are we? Fifty years ago there was only one answer. We were Americans, and most knew what that meant. When American principles were found lacking in practice, reformers stepped forth. In those days, reform meant to apply the principles, not to overthrow them. Today…
Read more »Trade Dogma And The No-think Nation
By: Paul Craig Roberts|23 April, 2002|Categories: Articles & Columns|Tags: Dogma . Nation . No-Think . Trade
First in a series on America’s imperiled future.[II, III, IV, V, VI] From a superpower to a third world country, the U.S. is in rapid decline. It is a change of which the population—especially the “experts”—are unaware. Because of past success, Americans live in a smug no-think world. Wake up! This is the first in a series of columns about…
Read more »DOJ And The Law's Decline
By: Paul Craig Roberts|16 April, 2002|Categories: Articles & Columns|Tags: Decline . DOJ . Law's
The U.S. Department of Justice’s indictment {PDF} of the entire Arthur Andersen accounting firm for the actions of a few is a worse offense against law than the misleading accounting that hid Enron’s debt. Dramatic evidence of a deteriorating legal culture, the indictment of Andersen contravenes two primary principles of our legal system: (1) guilt requires intent to commit a…
Read more »Israel: The National Question Moral for U.S.
By: Paul Craig Roberts|09 April, 2002|Categories: Articles & Columns|Tags: casea which are illegal but moral
Western politicians were thinking wishfully when they decided to resurrect an Israeli state on land held for centuries by Arabs. Passed from watch to watch, the Israeli-Palestinian problem continues to elude the skills of politicians. Our fractured era has proved unequal to the challenge. Desperate Israelis borrowed a page from America’s Afghanistan book and decided to hunt down and kill…
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