Philosophy and Methodology
Capitalism versus Statism
"[I]f the glorious public sector, if expanded government, has brought us to this pretty pass, perhaps the answer is to roll government back, to return to the truly revolutionary path of dismantling the Big State."
Rousseau’s Form of Socialism
"Law for Rousseau is essentially a device whereby those in possession protect themselves against the 'have-nots.'"
Rothbard’s Last Triumph, Part 2
Murray Rothbard's two volumes are a monument of 20th-century scholarship.
Rothbard’s Last Triumph, Part 1
Rothbard's discussion of utility constitutes only one strand in his powerfully argued case that Smith derailed economics from the analytical achievements of the scholastics and their French and Italian successors.
State Interference
"The new democracy having inherited the power so long used against it, now shows every disposition to use that power as ruthlessly as any other governing organ ever has used it."