Jim Powell has a characteristically excellent article today on LRC about WWI. It is especially good on factors that led up to WWI. Powell’s article can be supplemented with the excellent discussion of WWI in Hans-Hermann Hoppe’s Introduction to his book Democracy: The God that Failed: Studies in the Economics and Politics of Monarchy, Democracy, and Natural Order, where Hoppe emphasizes the disastrous consequences of America’s actions in WWI–how America’s intervention transformed the war from an old-fashioned territorial dispute into an ideological conflict of good against evil, a war “to make the world safe for democracy and free of dynastic … Continue reading Powell on WWI