Friedenberg was among those who regarded US participation in the Vietnam War as an abomination. He had begun expressing his outrage in print in the mid-'60s, though most of it was directed at American public schools rather than at American foreign policy.
There is, after all, the surprisingly favorable response that libertarianism encounters from people in all walks of life.
But what both the classical and the historical schools have neglected, the Austrian School is today trying to accomplish.
"As long as the easy, attractive, superficial philosophy of Statism remains in control of the citizen's mind, no beneficent social change can be effected, whether by revolution or by any other means."
In light of all the varied and bizarre beliefs, usually incorrect and often pernicious, that have informed human communities throughout the past, is it inconceivable that the far more sensible views of libertarianism might someday become widely accepted?
For hundreds of years, politicians (like a certain current US president) have pushed the idea that one man’s profit is another man’s lo
We may either incorporate ourselves into market civilization, the system by which we may serve ourselves as ends by serving other people as means, or return to the idyllic and isolated "noble" savagery that long characterized our human past.
Tourist Joe can complain about rising prices in the event of a papal death, but he should recognize their role in minimizing problems resulting from scarcity.
"An improving economy neither consists of an increasing GDP nor does it cause the overall stock market to rise."
Marx and Engels failed to see that tools and machines are themselves products of the operation of the human mind.
