One shouldn't read too much into deviations from prepared texts, and in fact the prepared text of Texas Gov. George W. Bush's remarks distributed to newsies during his California fundraising swing this week carried a warning right at the top "[Note: Governor Bush...
Serbs Out . . . KLA In
Brit Secretary of State for Defense George Robertson summed up his country's war aims succinctly and, as it turned out, all-too-accurately: "Serbs out, NATO in, refugees back." Tens of thousands of Serbs are fleeing "liberated" Kosovo, as the KLA...
Murray Rothbard On War
These edited extracts, from an interview in the February 1973 issue of Reason magazine, first ran in the June 1999 issue of The Rothbard-Rockwell Report, published by the Center for Libertarian Studies. The introduction is taken from "Murray N. Rothbard: A Legacy...
Allied Farce: A Wartime Diary
On the first anniversary of the start of the Kosovo war, I present below my first column then called "Wartime Diary." It preserves, I think, the sense of outrage I felt at the time and still feel while at the same time giving the reader a sense of...
A Report on Mesopotamia by T.E. Lawrence
Thomas Edward (T.E.) Lawrence, a.k.a. "Lawrence of Arabia" (1888-1935), British soldier and author, whose works include The Seven Pillars of Wisdom, achieved world renown for his exploits as Britain's military liaison to the Arabs during the rebellion against the...
War Is the Health of the State
To most Americans of the classes which consider themselves significant the war [World War I] brought a sense of the sanctity of the State which, if they had had time to think about it, would have seemed a sudden and surprising alteration in their habits of thought. In...


