2018—Fox “News” accidentally broadcasts a graphic showing results of a poll: Fox is the least-trusted network.
1984—R. Nixon gripes, “It’s the media’s responsibility to examine the President with a microscope…but when they use a proctoscope, it’s going too far.”
1974—Hank Aaron breaks Ruth’s homer record; death threats ensue.
1956—USMC recruits are marched into a Parris Island swamp for disciplinary purposes. Six of them drown.
1952—With the steel industry adamantly opposing wage increases, Truman orders its nationalization.
1947—Frederick von Hayek, Ludwig von Mises, Milton Friedman, et al. issue a manifesto at Mont Pelerin obfuscating their goal: neo-feudalism.
1945—Allied planes hit a German ammo train next to a train full of prisoners going to Bergen-Belsen; 100s of survivors are shot trying to escape.
1917—At the U.S. Embassy in Bern, future CIA head Allen Dulles gets a call from V.I. Lenin begging for an immediate meeting. Dulles, who has a date with buxom Swedish twins, puts him off. Lenin boards a train to Petrograd and starts a Revolution.
1885—U.S. troops invade Panama, “to defend our national interests.”
1826—To uphold their honor, Sec. of State Henry Clay and Sen. John Randolph [D-R-Va.] shoot at each other.
217—As he pisses against a wall, Emperor Caracalla is stabbed to death by a disgruntled Roman soldier.
Thanks for writing, Shawn. It’s always an honor to be corrected—or, should we say, lectured at—by “a Senior Fellow of the Mises Institute, [who] teaches economics at Grove City College and is the author of Foundations of Economics: A Christian View and The Economics of Prosperity: Rethinking Economic Growth and Development.”
Your refutation is all the more stimulating since Grove City holds the papers of Ludwig von Mises himself. But, of course, what could be a more appropriate repository of such an economic gospel than a school founded by an oil baron?
It is a little ironic, given Mises’ low opinion of war and government subsidies, that Grove City would likely have sunk during World War II, had the Navy not kept it afloat by sending sailors there for training in electronics.
Though its economic stance may be viewed at reactionary, in other areas, Grove City has been at the vanguard. Its administration was under censure for a record 53 years for violating the tenure and academic freedom of Professor Larry Gara.
But we digress. Were we wrong about the Mont Pelerin gathering? Or did we lie? It’s hard to say, 35 years after “Language, a Key Mechanism of Control” taught Republicans “How to Speak Like Newt.” A one-man Tower of Babel, he blew up our common language.
Since you appear to be a Christian, and even the devil can cite Scripture, let’s look to the Bible for guidance. Matthew 7:16 – “By their fruits ye shall know them.”
Expound and obfuscate all you want about the Austrian School vs. the Chicago School, and yadda yadda yadda. Right wing thought has dominated economic thinking for fifty years, while the average citizen has been driven towards peonage.
“1947—Frederick von Hayek, Ludwig von Mises, Milton Friedman, et al. issue a manifesto at Mont Pelerin obfuscating their goal: neo-feudalism.” At best this is not true. At worst it is a lie. I would encourage you to read Mises’ book Liberalism or Human Action and truly contemplate how his purpose could possibly be to establish neo-feudalism.