Iraq: The Last Republican Hurrah
By: Paul Craig Roberts|26 January, 2003|Categories: Articles & Columns|Tags: propaganda big brother och irak
The Republican Party will not survive its invasion of Iraq, its commitment to open borders, and its pandering to preferred minorities. An invasion of Iraq is likely the most thoughtless action in modern history. It has the support of only two overlapping small groups: neoconservatives infused with the spirit of 18th century French Jacobins who want to impose American “exceptionalism”…
Read more »U.S. Leaving First World
By: Paul Craig Roberts|21 January, 2003|Categories: Articles & Columns|Tags: american professionals . campaign finance reform . meaning of citizenship . special interest groups . university educations
America has turned its back on Americans. Even illegal aliens count higher with the American government than native-born, taxpaying, loyal U.S. citizens, who are regarded by their government as nothing but resources to be exploited. American taxpayers now are expected to shoulder the burden of paying for university educations for illegal aliens. When U.S. Representative Tom Tancredo (R, Colo) said…
Read more »In Memoriam: The Importance Of Being Balint
By: Paul Craig Roberts|17 January, 2003|Categories: Articles & Columns|Tags: Balint . Being . Importance . Memoriam
Two hundred years after the American Founding came a defender of our Constitution’s principles, Balint Vazsonyi, who toiled in the tents of revival and rededication until he passed away on January 17. With nothing but hope and determination, Balint, a budding concert pianist, walked out of Soviet-occupied Hungary with his mother and brother in 1956, crossing on foot through the…
Read more »Globalization's Many Discontents
By: Paul Craig Roberts|13 January, 2003|Categories: Articles & Columns|Tags: alexis de tocqueville . ethnic populations . international monetary fund . political instability . yale university law
The American Conservative January 13, 2003 Yale University law professor Amy Chua writes in World on Fire that “free market democracy” has an Achilles’ heel: market-dominant minorities. The disproportionate success attained by market-dominant minorities foments ethnic hatreds. Democracy provides the envious and resentful majority the means to strike at the successful minority, making conflict inherent in “free market democracy.” What…
Read more »Convicting Wrongfully
By: Paul Craig Roberts|13 January, 2003|Categories: Articles & Columns|Tags: controversial action . criminal justice system . principle of justice . unprecedented action . wrongful convictions
Acting on his loss of confidence in the criminal justice system, Gov. George H. Ryan (R, IL) commuted the death sentences of all 156 inmates on Illinois’ death row to life in prison. The governor’s unprecedented action has brought condemnation from prosecutors, law-and-order conservatives, and victims’ families. Haunted by “the demons of error” that inhabit the criminal justice system and…
Read more »Review of Amy Chua's World On Fire
By: Paul Craig Roberts|09 January, 2003|Categories: Articles & Columns|Tags: articles against amy chua world on fire
Published on VDARE.com – February 09, 2003 The American Conservative January 13, 2003 Yale University law professor Amy Chua writes in World on Fire that “free market democracy” has an Achilles’ heel: market-dominant minorities. The disproportionate success attained by market-dominant minorities foments ethnic hatreds. Democracy provides the envious and resentful majority the means to strike at the successful minority, making…
Read more »My Time with Supply-Side Economics
By: Paul Craig Roberts|07 January, 2003|Categories: Articles & Columns|Tags: supply side economics graph
Published on VDARE.com – January 07, 2003 (Published in The Independent Review, v. VII, n. 3, Winter 2003, ISSN 1086-1653, Copyright © 2003, pp. 393– 397.) Supply-side economics is a major innovation in economics. It says that fiscal policy works by changing relative prices and shifting the aggregate supply curve, not by raising or lowering disposable income and shifting the…
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