Mises Daily

Frédéric Bastiat reminds us of the dangers to all sides of using military force as a means of securing resources or to bring freedom to foreign peoples.

Robert Taft fought military conscription in 1946, stating, "If adopted, it will color our whole future. We shall have fought to abolish totalitarianism in the world, only to set it up in the United States."

On Keynes's book has been founded a new economic church, completely furnished with all the properties proper to a church, such as a revelation of its own, a rigid doctrine, a symbolic language, a propaganda, a priestcraft, and a demonology.

How the American Right evolved from Nockian radical libertarians into a movement that openly declared, "God bless the establishment." 

The market economy as a field of liberty, spontaneity, and free coordination cannot thrive in a social system that is the very opposite.

Fascism cartelizes the private sector and denies fundamental rights and liberties to individuals. This describes mainstream politics.

In the 1950s, young libertarians coming into the ranks were increasingly infected with the Cold War mentality. They were converted to militarism instead of laissez-faire. 

Libertarians must form and maintain organizations not only to promote their broad principles but to promote these principles in special fields.

Trade-offs are made necessary by scarcity. Individuals must choose between the alternatives forced upon them by reality. A refusal to acknowledge this leads to big problems.  

Legal tender laws create special privileges for government money. That kills true currency competition and favors the state's monopoly power.