The kids running National Review have this in common with their predecessors: they are mightily impressed with the military state and the socialist enterprise called war. In particular, Republican-led wars fire up their sense of public duty to attach themselves to power. Their affected fondness for freedom in peacetime is quickly converted into the raw collectivism of wartime, precisely as Ludwig von Mises chronicled concerning European public intellectuals during the two world wars of the last century. Several developments are inevitable once the prospect of a Republican-led war appears on the horizon. First, the National Review crowd will intellectually enlist, … Continue reading The Enforcers