Power & Market

Hoppe at the 2024 conference of the Property and Freedom Society. 

When you take on the role of the world’s policeman, don’t be surprised when countries who cannot fight their own wars call “911.” That is exactly what is happening to the United States on two fronts.

In areas prone to hurricanes and flooding, homeowners are forced to purchase insurance to comply with local building codes, mortgage requirements, and zoning regulations.

Real capitalists don't base their business models on exploiting the taxpayers via lucrative government contracts. Real libertarians don't help their governments carry out pointless wars of conquest.

On July 28, 2000, even before the Bush-Gore election wrapped up, Lew Rockwell put his finger on what the Republicans had in store for America.

Is it possible that the Anglo-led hatred of Russia in the nineteenth century had the effect of turning Russia away from the West, making the Russian soil more fertile for anti-liberal ideas like Bolshevism?

As fast as a snake’s thrust, Israel has taken the methods of mass murder used against Gaza’s civilians to the West Bank, to Lebanon and Syria, to Yemen and beyond. It is now launching about for the next country to attack, Iran.

The Chinese are making the same mistake FDR made with his many government programs during the Great Depression and Trump and Biden made with massive government programs during the COVID crisis.

Abstract: The issue of abortion—and, more broadly, the issue concerning the source of rights or, more precisely, when and why huma

Two government mortgage companies, Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac, were central to making US house prices widely unaffordable. Should the European Union import this dubious American idea?