Leonard Peikoff, much to my surprise, has an excellent podcast on Edward Snowden. He praises Snowden for revealing the vast amount of information the NSA collects about us. The government’s program is in essence totalitarian, and Peikoff aptly draws a parallel with Orwell’s 1984 . To those who say that Snowden gave American secrets to Russia,
By Ron Paul Earlier this month, CIA-operated drones killed as many as 55 people in Yemen in several separate strikes. Although it was claimed that those killed were “militants,” according to press reports at least three civilians were killed and at least five others wounded. That makes at least 92 US drone attacks against Yemen during the Obama
George Reisman speaks on a variety of issues , including economic inequality, income and inheritance taxes, with John O’Donnell on the Power Trading Radio show. George Reisman is economics professor emeritus from Pepperdine University. He received his Ph.D from New York University with Ludwig von Mises as his thesis advisor. He was also a close
Though it is easy to characterize democracy, recent political theory has been marked by a conspicuous omission. Virtually no argument is ever offered to support the desirability of representative democracy, and the little that is available seems distressingly weak. Why ought democracy to be either instituted or promoted, let alone exported, as a
In the last of a series of three posts on a blog for conservative philosophers called Right Reason , Professor Edward Feser has raised disturbing charges against Murray Rothbard’s libertarianism. The “Rothbardian view of the world,” he claims, “is radically subversive and paranoid.” Rothbard’s worldview “parallels Marxism” and is incompatible with
Few persons have done as much as George Resch to advance libertarian scholarship. He was a protégé of the outstanding libertarian thinker F. A. “Baldy” Harper and worked with Harper at the William Volker Fund. While working there, he helped Harper establish the Institute for Humane Studies and became part of Murray Rothbard’s inner circle. He
Tom Wolfe’s gifts as a writer are much in evidence in his 2006 Jefferson Lecture, “The Human Beast.” No one reading it will be able to forget, for example, his description of José Delgado in the bull ring: “The bull charged. Delgado stood there, motionless. The bull reached the critical point where it would be useless for anyone, even a toreador,
Actually, it is just the opposite. Earlier today Declan McCullagh reported that a new expanded version of the DMCA is being promoted through the halls of Congress. The usual suspects (RIAA, MPAA) are hailing it as an improvement in protecting their vested interests, however for everyone else it will be as fun as getting poison ivy on your
The Bard College Library has catalogued the books in the collection of the political philosopher Hannah Arendt. She owned a large number of books by Mises, even more by Hayek, and two by Rothbard: For a New Liberty and The Panic of 1819. The Arendt Collection can be searched here
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