Perhaps history can teach us, after all. Here are some fascinating stories that surfaced in the past few weeks. My paragraphs will give you highlights and I encourage you to read the originals.
‘Follow the Consensus’
Looking back, most of us see the American prohibition era (1920–1933) as a giant, foolhardy mistake. It destroyed businesses, turned average citizens into criminals, built a mafia of corruption, and more. How could it have happened?
In an essay full of surprises, Jeffrey Tucker of AIER helps explain this mystery. It turns out that in the 1920s there was a powerful social consensus in favor of prohibition, promoted and backed by economists and physicians. To challenge it was unseemly at best. Continue reading “The 1920s Consensus on Prohibition . . . How Wilson Persecuted the Hutterites . . . American Indian Warriors”