Introduction to ‘Great Wars and Great Leaders’
From the 18th century to our own time, the liberal tradition has stood firmly against war, based both on principle and on the reality of how and wh
Philosophy and Methodology
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On Doing Something About It
If a prominent politician hires a hall to make a speech, stay away; the absent audience will bring him to a realization of his nothingness, writes
Innovation Requires Economic Freedom
The foremost aim of despotic government is to prevent any innovations that could endanger its own supremacy.
Of Muses and Mises: A Prelude to Natural Philosophy
The economic thought that impressed Rothbard is to be found in Hesiod’s didactic poem/farmer’s almanac, The Works and Days.
The Real Meaning of “Defense”
Obey or die. Isn't this the philosophy of all government in all times and all places?
Is QE3 Ahead?
History is littered with monetary managers who believed they were in total control — until the disaster hit.
The Injustice of Social Justice
Social justice actually refers to an intention to use force to acquire one's desires. Not to earn desirable goods by rational thought and action, production and voluntary exchange, but to go in there and forcibly take goods from those who can supply them!
Albert Jay Nock
Nock was perhaps the finest stylist in 20th-century American literature, writes Frank Chodorov (1887–1966).
What Is Prejudice?
What is described as prejudice is often nothing more than the sum total of a person’s actual experience and learning, formed on the basis of observation of reality.
The Scottish Enlightenment and Presbyterianism
Hutcheson, Hume, and Smith, while scarcely orthodox Calvinists, were dedicated Presbyterians according to their own lights, writes Murray N.
