Monarchy and War

[Journal of Libertarian Studies 15, Number 1 (2000)]

Modern history is nothing but an inventory of bankruptcy declarations. —Nicolas Gomez Davila

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Monarchy is a form of government not well understood in North America. To many people in that part of the world, monarchy seems to be a totally obsolete, even childish, institution. The surviving monarchies, after all, might still play a symbolic or even a psychological role, but not a decisive political role.

As a rationalist and a liberal (in th...