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Legion de Elba

My latest for The Rebel: On May 19 the French Legion d’Honneur was established. In 1802. By Napoleon. The famous dictator and failed aggressor. Many recipients have been outstanding human beings., But the Legion d’Honneur underlines the tragic difficulty in places without the Anglosphere’s tradition of liberty under law successfully maintained in finding aspects of their heritage worth celebrating and rallying round in the name of good government and civic virtue. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mDeu1XQax6M

The audio-only version is available here: [podcast title="Robson Rebel, May 19"]http://www.thejohnrobson.com/podcast/John2016/May/160519RobsonRebel.mp3[/podcast]

History, PodcastJohn Robson
AAAAA

In my latest piece for The Rebel, I note that May 12 is the date in 1933 that FDR signed the Agricultural Adjustment Act into law, a brilliant government plan to increase prosperity by destroying wealth, specifically to feed a hungry nation by plowing food right back into the dirt. This approach has of course caught on in the public sector. But it’s also the date the founders of Alcoholics Anonymous first met, in 1935, and by creating a group reliant on voluntary organization, fellowship and humility has done far more to help mankind than any government War on Drugs, the welfare state or virtually any government program to make us better off by making us worse off. https://youtu.be/_mbeGVTM8B8

The audio-only version is available here: [podcast title="May 12, 2016 Rebel"]http://www.thejohnrobson.com/podcast/John2016/May/160512Rebel.mp3[/podcast]

History, PodcastJohn Robson