Joseph
Sobran: Archives
Past
articles by Joseph Sobran on LewRockewell.com
Your
Friend, the State
Joseph Sobran on a particularly nonsensical notion.
Our
Boy Bill
Now admit it: you miss him too.
Addicts
of the State
Joseph
Sobran on whether 9/11 discredited libertarianism.
The
Trouble With the Christian Right
They're
apocalyptic on foreign policy.
The
Catholic Ogre
Joseph
Sobran has heard enough anti-Catholic myths to last him a while.
Where
To Look for Evil
Not
just in some axis, says Joseph Sobran.
Put-Upon
Protestants
Too
nice for their own good, says Joseph Sobran.
Mother
of Western Civilization
The
Church is blamed for everything, and thanked for nothing.
Shakespeare
Was an Aristocrat
And
he wasn't Shakespeare, says Joseph Sobran.
Getting
Tough on Terrorism
It's
failed for Sharon and Bush, and it will continue to fail, says Joseph
Sobran.
Simian
Fashion
Joseph
Sobran on what they wear at the Oscars.
A
War That Can't Be Won or Lost
The
State's idea of perfection.
Joe
Sobran Falls in Love
With
the Catholic Church.
It
Killed the Constitution
The
notion that might makes right.
The
Greatest Generations
Joseph
Sobran remembers the heroes.
The
Rise of Tax Slavery
Brought
to you by the Great Emancipator.
The
State's Duty To Lie Us into War
Or so
they tell us.
Is
Sobran 'Anti-American'?
He wants
to know.
Presidents
Are Dictators in Wartime
How
come they call this "freedom"?
Our
Chesterton
If the
truth be told, that's actually Joseph Sobran.
A
Surfeit of 'Patriotism'
Joseph
Sobran is accused of anti-Americanism by the jingoes.
In
Search of the Real Abe
He was
one slippery character.
O
Canada!
Joseph
Sobran is getting a little tired of Canadians pouring into this
country to dodge taxes, take our women, and get us into wars.
The
State Corrupts Our Language
To seize
power over us.
Hoppe
Is Right and Hobbes Is Wrong
Joseph
Sobran on anarchism, reason, and history.
The
Charade of American Democracy
A pre-speech
preview by Joseph Sobran.
Lincoln's
Feet of Clay
Henry,
that is. Read our own Thomas DiLorenzo's important new book,
The
Real Lincoln.
Vagueness
and the Total State
Joseph
Sobran on the practical and moral necessity of precision in language.
How
Killing Became a Right
Joseph
Sobran on the usurpers who call themselves the federal supreme court.
The
Powers That Be
Joseph
Sobran on Christianity and the State.
What
Do We Owe the State?
Joseph
Sobran had a lot of response to his column on Hans-Hermann
Hoppe's important new book.
The
Most Fun This Country Ever Had
The
great Muhammed Ali who refused to murder the Vietnamese in
service to the State is ill-served by his new movie bio,
says Joseph Sobran.
The
Abnormal Society
Joseph
Sobran on the mutually reinforcing insights of Pat
Buchanan, Pope Paul VI, and Hans-Hermann
Hoppe.
The
Curse of Beatlemania
There's
a militant Beatle Taliban, and Joseph Sobran was lucky to escape
a fatwa.
Who's
the Rat?
Amidst
the ten-minute hate, is it really John Walker Lindh?
The
Myth of 'Limited Government'
Joseph
Sobran on the State and Hans-Hermann
Hoppe.
Our
State, Ourselves
Joseph
Sobran says let's stop kidding ourselves about the US empire.
US
Militarism
It means
a deeper peril for 2002.
Hail,
Switzerland
It's
what America should be.
Hurrah
for Isolationists
The
one group with America's interest at heart.
Why
Hate John Walker Lindh?
Joseph
Sobran on "the things that are Caesar's."
Celebrity
and Mortality
After
George Harrison, Joseph Sobran appreciates Nat King Cole all over
again.
The
Terror State
Let's
face it, says Joseph Sobran: we live under one.
The
Evil of US Militarism
As Robert
Nisbet wrote, it has virtually abolished the republic of the framers.
When
Your Mind Is a Vacuum
The
State will fill it.
Joseph
Sobran Sets Off the Alarm Again
We need
safety, but we also need profiling and intelligence, none of which
we'll get from the government.
Cracking
Down on the Usual Suspects
That's
us, says Joseph Sobran.
Sobran
the Moderate
He's
willing to settle for the Constitution.
'Defense'
It's
made us unsafe.
The
Costs of Victory
In war,
even the winning side pays.
Roosevelt's
Ultimate Legacy
Osama
Bin FDR.
Belloc's
Prophecy
The
great Catholic polemicist thought the future belonged to Islam.
Is
the Government 'Us'?
Sure,
and the parasite is identical with the host.
How
To Prevent Terrorism
No Middle-Easterners
menaced Millard Fillmore's America, says Joseph Sobran.
Patriotism
vs. Nationalism
Joseph
Sobran on knowing the difference, and it has never been more important.
'Love
All, Trust a Few, Do Wrong to None'
Joseph
Sobran on the virtue of wariness.
A
Perennial Human Folly
The
belief that the course of a war can be controlled.
Dad
and Uncle Joe
Joseph
Sobran's father was almost killed fighting for Stalin, though that
wasn't how FDR phrased it.
He
Told Us So
Joseph
Sobran responds to his pro-war critics.
Following
the Script
"That
men set off a course of events they can neither calculate nor control
is a tragic fact."
The
Mother of Tragedy
It's
war, says Joseph Sobran, writing pre-WTC.
The
Blasts
Once
again, trillions in defense failed to defend us.
Why
Are We Hated?
The
US is the first empire to expect to dominate and be loved. It doesn't
work that way.
The
Cassandras Were Cockeyed Optimists
About
Vatican II, about the US Constitution, about World War II.
The
Decline of Rock
Joseph
Sobran on the Golden Era of rock 'n roll, with a special appreciation
for the cleanest rocker.
Money
and Honor
What
the federal government has done to our dollar, and our liberty.
Son
of a Drunk
The
real key to Abraham Lincoln's character?
The
Shark as Media Pet
Why
they love this nasty creature.
The
Jefferson Davis Legacy
Joseph
Sobran on our last president.
A
Bitter Argument
At least
by Midwestern-American standards.
Lincoln's
Manners
There
is a lot to learn from Lincoln, as well as about Lincoln, says Joseph
Sobran.
Who
Killed the Iceman?
And
how he relates to the murderous Abe.
The
District of Interns
The
modern world, led by the State, is trying to shrug off things that
are built into our nature, says Joseph Sobran.
The
Imaginary Abe
Joseph
Sobran slices and dices Lincoln and his chief acolyte, Harry Jaffa.
Death
of a Sacred Cow
Joseph
Sobran on Katherine Graham.
The
Media Are Evil
They're
the State's most reliable liars.
I
Even Miss the Old Cigarette Ads
And
David Ogilvy, in this age of bad advertising.
Waiting
for the Moral
Joseph
Sobran on the Condit-Levy case.
Single
Sex and the Girl
Joseph
Sobran on Madonna. A classic, though the dastardly mag that fired
him has a lot of gall to run this.
'Gone
With the Wind,' Of Course
Forget
Mark Twain or Herman Melville. Margaret Mitchell wrote the great
American novel, says Joseph Sobran.
The
Monstrous ACLU
Founded
by Communists, it has always sided with the State.
Baseball's
Knight
Joseph
Sobran on the heroic Sandy
Koufax.
Civil
Rights vs. Religion
Joseph
Sobran on the future of State aggression.
In
Praise of Joe Sobran
A 14-year-old
baseball phenom. Article by his grandfather.
Bowdlerizing
C.S. Lewis
The
elites approve of one kind of censorship: anti-Christian.
Did
Lincoln Do It?
Was
the dictator incorrectly charged with plotting a crime?
Federal
Judges vs. the Rule of Law
God
finally won one in the US Supreme Court. He shouldn't have.
The
Age of the Misfit
When
the freedom of association is criminalized.
The
Sopranos
Call
me a starry-eyed idealist, says Joseph Sobran, but I want to require
all civil servants to be eunuchs.
The
Antidote to 'Sheer, Sheeplike Unanimity'
Joe
Sobran writes to Lew Rockwell.
Dylan
vs. the Sixties
Joseph
Sobran on why he likes Bob Dylan.
Listen
to Lincoln
Pay
attention to his words, and to his monstrous deeds, says Joseph
Sobran, and not the embalmed cliche he's become.
Shame
on Casey Martin
Nothing,
however innocuous, is now safe from the tentacles of the total state.
Kemp
vs. Sobran
Jack
calls Joe an assassin of Lincoln's character, for quoting the words
of Honest Abe.
Evil
Is Back
Newsweek
has one take, St. Paul another.
Joe
McCarthy and Abe Lincoln
Only
one instituted a reign of terror.
Reparations
Now!
We are
owed big time, says Joseph Sobran.
War
Hero
Joseph
Sobran on Senator Kerrey.
Washington,
DC Tax Haven?
The
hilarious unintended consequences of removing taxation for those
without representation.
The
Greedy, Grasping Tax State
The
State claims the right to decide how much to rob us. Such an institution
cannot be legitimate.
Phony
Lincoln
Joseph
Sobran on Harry Jaffa's deification of the Great Tyrant.
The
State as Wolf
Joseph
Sobran on taxes, Democrats, and the nature of the State.
Beware
of 'Reform'
It means
a threat to liberty, says Joseph Sobran.
The
Hanssen Shocker
Joseph
Sobran on the spy scandal.
A
New Beethoven
David
Zinman, by following the composer's own directions, has given us
a new and fun Beethoven, says Joseph Sobran.
Can
We Afford a Tax Cut?
Joseph
Sobran on the desperation of the parasites not to allow the hosts
any breathing room. Who knows where it might lead?
Clintonian
(adj.)
Well,
we can stop guessing what Bill Clinton's legacy will be, says Joseph
Sobran.
Shall
We Watch?
The
poisoning of Timothy McVeigh, or of a baby in the womb?
Little
Willie
Joseph
Sobran on the kind of children's book that should be written about
Clinton.
The
Great Emancipator?
A black
man looks at Lincoln.
Unasked
Questions
Why
does everyone assume, in effect, that the government owns us?
Education
Presidents
Joseph
Sobran gets nervous when presidents talk about running schools.
Is
Jesse Learning Moral Modesty?
Joseph
Sobran is a little encouraged.
Slavery,
No; Secession, Yes
Joseph
Sobran on the constitutional principle of states rights.
Don't
Cut Taxes Abolish Them!
Joe
Sobran injects some good sense into the DC debate.
Money
and Morality
We need
a dollar protected from what James Madison called "the pestilent
effects of paper money."
Free
Virginia!
My state
withdrew from the old confederacy in 1861, joined the Confederate
States of America (currently inoperative, alas), and was forcibly
and illegally reannexed to the US in 1865, says Joseph
Sobran.
Memoirs
of a Heretic
Joe
Sobran on thinking through official lies.
How
Washington Thinks
It pays
as much attention to the 10th amendment as the Unitarians do to
the Book of Revelation, says Joe Sobran.
Abe
Lincoln, White Separatist
Joe
Sobran on the actual views of the Great Emancipator.
Popular
Election of Presidents?
That
would be even crazier than the present system, says Joe Sobran.
Stealing
an Election
Forget
Gore and examine Honest Abe, says Joseph Sobran.
The
'Lesson' of Pearl Harbor
Not
to be perpetually ready for war, but that your worst enemy is your
own government.
Uncomfortable
Election Truths
What
exactly is the moral argument for majority rule, asks Joe Sobran.
I
Hate To Admit It
But
the English have a lot to teach us about English, says Joe Sobran.
Even their politicians are articulate and funny, while ours
like Bush and Gore are tongue-tied and banal.
Symptoms
of Tyranny
They
include, says Joseph Sobran, the centralization of power, the issuing
of funny money, and the welfare state.
A
Heartbeat Away
The
saga of Dick Cheney's ticker.
They
Abolished the Constitution
And
hardly anyone noticed, says Joe Sobran.
Amnesia
at the Paper of Record
Joe
Sobran on the New York Times' Big Lie about Pius XII.
Raoul
Berger, RIP
His
heart aches at the death of this great Constitutional scholar, says
Joe Sobran.
Liberal
vs. Conservative?
Joseph
Sobran called the election.
Tyson,
Golota, and Hamlet
Paying
to see Mike Tyson fight is like dating O.J. Simpson, says Joseph
Sobran. You have no right to complain later. In fact youre
lucky if youre in any condition to complain.
Clinton's
Levitas
Forget
gravitas. Clinton exhibits the opposite, says Joe Sobran.
Beware
of Allies
Joseph
Sobran on the USS Cole, "terrorism," imperialism, and
allies who attract a bunch of enemies.
How
To Avoid Lying
Joe
Sobran has some advice for Al Gore, and the rest of us.
The
Few and the Many
"Discrimination,"
says Joseph Sobran, is liberalese for free association, just as
"civil rights" means forced association.
Does
the Constitution "Grow"?
To Gore,
it's climbing ivy. Bush is a little better, says Joe Sobran.
Joe
Sobran on the Presidency
Read
his brilliant and funny new book, Hustler:
The Clinton Legacy.
Freud
and the Constitution
The
Viennese creep undermined our liberties.
'Hustler:
The Clinton Legacy'
Joe
Sobran has written a brilliant new book on That Man in the White
House. Highly recommended.
Capital
Punishment
Of course
murderers deserve to die. But how can criminals and the modern
state is a criminal enterprise dispense justice?
"Private"
Crimes
Once
again the monster Clintons have beaten the rap, though Ray did not
exonerate them, despite what the press claims. How could he?
The
Neocon Trick
How
they wrecked the conservative movement.
Blurring
the Differences
Move
over, Tom Dewey: you may have company, says Joseph Sobran.
Left-Liberal
Lies
"Compassionate
conservatism" is not an oxymoron. Compassionate liberalism
is.
Scouting
Morality
Joseph
Sobran on the war on the Boy Scouts, and why the great moral leader
Lieberman is AWOL.
Henry
VIII and John Milton
Joseph
Sobran on two great heretics.
Abortion
and the English Language
Joseph
Sobran on two related corruptions.
Getting
Personal
Joe
Sobran on how Gore has exploited his family for political purposes
once again.
The
Man From Nowhere
The
chilling and dangerous Al Gore.
Gore's
Unwanted Friends
There's
a reason the pornographers all love the Democrat Party, says Joe
Sobran.
Did
Lincoln Free the Slaves?
Of course
not!
Our
Slickest President
The
lying national socialist and war criminal, FDR. Article by Joseph
Sobran.
Making
Sense of Shakespeare
He was
gay, says Joe Sobran, and he wasn't Shakespeare.
History's
Yes-Man
Al Gore
used to believe or said, anyway that human life begins
at conception. Now he favors legal abortion, even when the unborn
child is fully formed and ready for birth. Article by Joseph Sobran.
Home-Run
Inflation
Joe
Sobran mourns the old game, and teaches it to his grandson.
Wanted:
Another Juvenal
Only
he could do justice to the march on Rome, says Joseph Sobran.
Greedy
Bureaucrats and Welfare Bums
Greed,
says Joseph Sobran, is the province of the state and its minions,
not of taxpayers wanting to keep their own money.
Gore's
Commie Connections
Once
again, in their treatment of Gore's background, the elites are shown
to be pro-communist.
Let's
Debate 'Basics'
Include
not only Pat Buchanan and Ralph Nader in the debates, says Joe Sobran,
but also Howard Phillips and Harry Browne.
Prejudice
and Precedent
Even
when the Supremes get it right, they get it wrong, says Joe Sobran.
Structures
of Deceit
Another
name for the Supreme Court, says Joe Sobran.
The
Radical Dr. Johnson
Joseph
Sobran on how publishing ceased to be vulgar.
Power,
Not Prayer
Joseph
Sobran on the Supreme Court's most recent usurpation.
The
Prophetic C.S. Lewis
He saw
clearly the moral meaning of tyranny. Article by Joseph Sobran.
Playing
Monopoly
Joe
Sobran on the evil Thomas Penfield Jackson and his assault on Microsoft.
Rape,
Slavery, Booze, and Interstate Commerce
Joseph
Sobran on what the Constitution actually says.
The
Real Al Gore
Who
the heck is he?
Hate
Crimes and Love Crimes
The
president's libidinal agenda.
The
Rivals
Gielgud
vs. Olivier, by Joe Sobran.
The
Church of Silence
The
untold story of the century, by Joe Sobran.
Rudy
in Ruins
Another
woman, another Republican meltdown.
Can
Dr. Laura Be Tolerated?
Freedom
of speech and normality itself are under attack, says Joe Sobran.
Joe
Sobran Leaves Ticket
He is
no longer Howard Phillips's veep candidate.
Happy
Birthday, "Shakespeare"!
Joseph
Sobran says it's the 450th anniversary of the birth of the man who
wrote Shakespeare's plays.
Legitimating
Castro
That's
what Clinton is doing over Elian, says Joseph Sobran. Reagan, he
says, never would have done the same.
Keep
Elian Here
Those
who say otherwise are friends of Fidel, says Joseph Sobran.
The
Clinton Rap Sheet
"I
give up," says Joe Sobran, "I can't keep them straight
anymore. Who can, at this point?"
Buchanan:
The Next McCain?
Joseph
Sobran on why they can't help quoting the man.
Lesser
Evils
Joseph
Sobran argues for the Constitution Party.
If
I Were Pope
Joseph
Sobran on the papal apology.
The
True Bard
It wasn't
that guy Shakespeare, says Joseph Sobran.
Why
Sobran Should Be King
Joseph
Sobran on his career as a politician, and what he's really designed
for.
The
Romance of Dr. Crippen
The
love story inside the famous murder mystery.
The
Autonomous State
Far
from being a "maverick," John McCain conforms to the dominant
principle of 20th-century politics: the state that is the source
of its own authority and recognizes no authority above itself.
Hillary!
and Humanity
Loving
the People, hating persons.
The
Real Churchill
Joseph
Sobran agrees with Ralph Raico: "Winston Churchill was a man
of blood and a politico without principle."
The
Courtier Who Would Be King
Joseph
Sobran on Al Gore.
"Great"
Presidents
Clinton
is the price we pay for decades of tolerating autonomous government,
says Joseph Sobran.
Musidorus
the Cannibal
Long
ago there was a bitter war between the kingdoms of Scythia and Bohemia,
says Joseph Sobran.
The
Rules of the Game
John
Rocker's crime: telling the truth.
Lincoln's
Savagery
Joseph
Sobran on why the Confederate flag is demonized, and the US has
become a rogue nation.
The
End of a Mad Century
Mankind
may yet recover from the 20th century, says Joseph Sobran.
Lies
of History
They're
still telling whoppers about the criminal FDR.
The
Other Einstein
Joe
Sobran on the brilliant monster we're supposed to celebrate as man
of the century.
Murder
Most Patriotic
The
killer who never rose to the grand height of a State official.
Clinton's
"Mistake"
Even
Gore believes him capable of rape, says Joe Sobran.
A
Century of Psychobabble
This
has been the era of Sigmund Freud, and therefore of evil baloney,
says Joseph Sobran.
The
Man They Still Hate
Only
one man from the ancient world is still hated, says Joseph Sobran.
Sobran
Vindicated
An establishment
critic of his book, Alias Shakespeare, proves Joe's thesis.
The
Suppression of Scripture
Federally
mandated ignorance of the Bible among American schoolchildren has
wrecked our culture, says Joseph Sobran.
Hillsdale:
The Moral
Hillsdale
College saved its honor from its own president, says Joe Sobran.
Tragedy
in a Collegiate Paradise
I would
have believed it of anyone else, says Joe Sobran, but not George
Roche.
In
Defense of Microsoft
A lawless,
predatory government is the real enemy of honest and productive
citizens, says Joe Sobran.
"Arbiters"
of Abortion
Joe
Sobran says that the Supreme Court has created a bitter dilemma
for many of the women it thought it was helping.
Forbidden
Unless Authorized
Even Daniel Webster
would be horrified by today's Leviathan, says Joe Sobran.
Score
One for Jesse
The
wrestler is right; the intellectual is wrong, says Joe Sobran.
The
State vs. Culture
Government
is out to wreck the people's culture, says Joseph Sobran, in order
to build the totalitarian state.
The
Darwin Racket
Why
questioning the evolution scam is so threatening to the state and
its allies.
The Right To Secede
Without
it, Lincoln's dark victory over the Constitution has been enshrined.
How
Tyranny Came to America
Sobran
for Vice President!
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