Lord Acton: Libertarian Hero
[Originally published April 4, 2006, at LewRockwell.com]
“You would spare these criminals, for some mysterious reason. I would hang them higher than Haman, for reasons of quite obvious justice; still more, still higher, for the sake of historical science.”1
Thus ends a long passage of a letter from John Emerich Edward Dalberg Acton, First Lord Acton (1834–1902) in which appears his famous aphorism regarding power’s tendency to corrupt its possessor. In a few words to a fellow historian, who regarded his critic as the “most learned Englishman now alive,” his vast historical knowledge, passion for justice, and love for his Church are fused and brought to a fine point.2
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Professor Toshio Murata of the Yokohama College of Commerce died on March 12, 2021, at the venerable age of 97. During World War II, he was a staff officer responsible for economic planning in Shanghai, under the Japanese Occupation. He soon found out that central planning in a city of that size.
Professor Toshio Murata of the Yokohama College of Commerce died on March 12, 2021, at the venerable age of 97. During World War II, he was a staff officer responsible for economic planning in Shanghai, under the Japanese Occupation. He soon found out that central planning in a city of that size did not work, and, when his opinions become known to the central authorities, he was removed from his post. After the war, an American student sent him a copy of