In this very thoughtful book, Brian Leiter calls our attention to a paradox. In most liberal democracies, including the United States, religious believers often are exempt from laws that violate the tenets of their religion. By contrast, parallel claims of exemption on non-religious grounds tend to receive less consideration. Leiter offers an apt
Part 1 of “Judaism and Capitalism: Friends or Enemies?” The Lou Church Memorial Lecture in Religion and Economics, presented at the 2012 Austrian Scholars Conference The subject “Judaism and Capitalism” needs to be addressed in two related but separate parts. In one of these, the question up for discussion is, what is the relation between Judaism,
[Part 2 of “Judaism and Capitalism: Friends or Enemies?” The Lou Church Memorial Lecture in Religion and Economics, presented at the 2012 Austrian Scholars Conference (Click here for part 1)] Let us turn then to another attempt to connect Judaism and capitalism, and this one the most significant of all, Werner Sombart’s The Jews and Modern
Today is the 24 th anniversary of Murray’s Rothbard’s death. What did he stand for? In an outstanding recent article , Lew Rockwell, one of Murray’s closest friends and the founder of the Mises Institute and LewRockwell.com, offers the best answer. Lew says: “If you want to understand Murray Rothbard, you need to keep one principle in mind. If you
Anthony de Jasay, an important free market economist and political philosopher passed away on January 23. Born in Hungary in 1925, he studied at Nuffield College, Oxford, where he was a protégé of I.M.D. Little, a leading authority on welfare economics. Like Little, de Jasay was an astringent critic, and he often assailed his fellow classical
The Virtue of Nationalism Yoram Hazony Basic Books, 2018 285 + vii pages Yoram Hazony is a thinker of great originality, and in The Virtue of Nationalism , he enables us to see nationalism in a new way. He is not a libertarian, but his way of looking at nationalism can be of great value to libertarians in understanding how our views should be
Globalists: The End of Empire and the Birth of Neoliberalism Quinn Slobodian Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 2018, X + 381 pp. David Gordon (dgordon@mises.com) is a Senior Fellow at the Ludwig von Mises Institute. Quarterly Journal of Austrian Economics 21, no. 3 (Fall 2018) full issue, click here. Quinn Slobodian, a historian at Wellesley
Today would have been the 90th birthday of Burt Blumert, one of the greatest personalities of the modern libertarian movement. Burt was the indispensable man behind the scenes and was a key figure in the Mises Institute, the Center for Libertarian Studies, and LewRockwell.com. He was one of Murray Rothbard’s closest friends; and when you met him,
Mr. Mark Lautman has given me permission to share the following letter: When I started reading Rothbard’s book, I gave the three-line summary to my wife. “It’s a book written by Murray Rothbard in the 1950s about libertarian economics. It’s published by the Mises Institute. Rothbard was a disciple of an Austrian economist Mises.” “Mises?” she
War with Russia? From Putin & Ukraine to Trump & Russiagate . By Stephen F. Cohen. Hot Books-Skyhorse Publishing, 2019. Xiii + 225 pages. Stephen Cohen, a renowned authority on Russia, raises a question that applies more widely than the current confrontation between Russia and the United States, vital though it is that we understand that conflict.
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