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Contra Hoppe, Robert Taft opposed the Nuremberg trials purely on constitutional and jurisprudencial grounds (eg, ex post facto law). He would have preferred for the Nazis leaders to have been shot without the presence.
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Marx got one thing right: colonial rule by Britain was preferable to colonial rule by anyone else. (H/T @BruceDGilley)
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As @NigelBiggar shows, the aboriginal Australians are lucky that the British got to Australia before the Maori did.
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Socialism is not even good in theory, so don't bother trying to figure out how to make it work in practice.
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The Israeli violence in Gaza and the West Bank is the apotheosis of the Herzl-Ben-Gurion project. Some prescient Jews warned of this from the start.
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The best case against Western colonialism is that it was compulsory altruism. The home taxpayers were forced to pay to improve the lives of unfortunate, oppressed people in the primitive world. It should have been done privately.
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TGIF: Sumner’s Worries Should Be Our Worries Too sheldonrichman.substack.com/…
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