Philosophy and Methodology

Recorded 10/15/2004 at Radical Scholarship: The Guerrilla Movement for Liberty.  

Recorded 10/16/2004 at Radical Scholarship: The Guerrilla Movement for Liberty.

Recorded 10/16/2004 at Radical Scholarship: The Guerrilla Movement for Liberty.

Recorded 10/15/2004 at Radical Scholarship: The Guerrilla Movement for Liberty.  

Many say that markets are fine from day to day but not during exceptional events. But Lew Rockwell finds that markets love nothing more than a challenge that offers a profit opportunity.

Presented on 29 September 2004 at the Library of the Metropolitan Club, New York, New York. Sponsored by Mr. Kenneth M. Garschina.

In a famous essay written in 1906, Werner Sombart asked, Why Is There No Socialism in the United States? Whether one agrees with his analysis, his premise cannot be disputed: 

In a lifeboat situation, writes Murray Rothbard, we apparently have a war of all against all, and there seems at first to be no way to apply our theory of self-ownership or of property rights.

Americans have something in common with Iraqis, writes Lew Rockwell: experience has told us that when the government promises to bring us security, it means only that it wants more control over our lives.

The road to serfdom — in both Norway and America— is no coincidental detour, writes Ilana Mercer, but rather a well-charted destiny and often flows through mass political participation.