The Unbroken Window

More from Ralph Raico: Egged on by (Eleanor) Roosevelt, the FBI “began to tap the telephones and open the mail of vocal opponents of FDR’s foreign policy and to monitor anti-intervention rallies.” It “initiated surveillance of several of the president’s prominent congressional critics,” including Senators Burton K. Wheeler and Gerald Nye. The White House and [...]

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Another gem from Ralph Raico’s Great Wars and Great Leaders: Roosevelt, who always viewed any criticism of himself as a perversion of true democracy, was outraged. The President of the United States wrote a personal letter to a managing editor declaring that Flynn, “should be barred hereafter from the columns of any presentable daily paper, [...]

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How do you think Americans would look back on WWII and the fight against Nazi-ism is its associated toxic enterprises if we stayed out of it entirely, and the Australians or the Mexicans saved the world from speaking German?

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Some of you might be aware of the less “noble” origins of public schooling in America. Here is an illustration of early British attitudes toward it, from Bill Bryson’s At Home: Yet the idea of educating them (the masses) was treated almost universally with abhorrence. The fear was that educating the poor woudl fill them [...]

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If we’re gonna make bumper stickers, then let’s make some bumper stickers. Here is the muse: Roosevelt fed the hysteria by claiming that he possessed a “secret map” showing Nazi plans to conquer South and Central America, as well as secret documents proving that Hitler planned to supplant all existing religions with a Nazi Church [...]

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In a series of posts in the coming weeks, I will provide some selected observations on some of history’s “Great Leaders” as described in Ralph Raico’s invaluable revisionist work, Great Wars and Great Leaders. Readers who are interested in catching a glimpse of the reality of the mind and actions of Woodrow Wilson and Franklin [...]

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Here begins the presentation of a cornucopia of less well-know acts committed by the “greatest” Presidents in American history. To get us started, here is President Bush’s unconstitutional assault on limited executive power and the privacy of American citizens: This organization (the influential Friends of Democracy) won the gushing plaudits of the ever-gushing Mrs. President. [...]

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In case anyone is in the mood to deepen their state of depression, you can do no better than to read Hunt Tooley’s book, The Western Front. A particular gem comes from page 43, where Tooley is describing for us the popularity of the first World War among certain groups at home. Here is Ralph [...]

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Much of modern anti-capitalist thought came out of the Industrial Revolution. Indeed, the modern notions of socialism have their roots in the early 19th century thoughts and writings of Saint-Simon, Fourier and others. The highpoint for this thinking probably occurred during the Revolutions of 1848 that spread through Europe.  That is also the same year [...]

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(wintercow: This is part 2 of a series from guest blogger Michael Marotta). Detroit was unimportant when the Federal Reserve Board was created in 1912.  Federal Reserve Banks were established in Cleveland and Chicago, also both St. Louis and Kansas City; but, like the entire West between Dallas and San Francisco, Michigan was still an economic [...]

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