Within certain segments of the Christian community, primarily the Christian Reformed tradition imported from the Netherlands, there is considerable support for the creation of Christian labor unions as an alternative to the secular unions of today. Outside of the Christian Reformed circles, there is almost no discussion of this program within
In every field, there are many unexplored or partially explored issues that may turn out to be important. But, in all likelihood, they are dead ends. I compare this pursuit to an inventor who has an idea that a particular line of inquiry will lead to a major discovery. He may be correct, but he probably is incorrect. Most inventors are part-time
In October 1962, I was given a lifetime advantage: a copy of Murray Rothbard’s Man, Economy, and State . In the language of journalism, it was hot off the presses. It had just been published. I was sent a copy by F. A. Harper, known as Baldy, who was not bald. At the time, he ran the Institute for Humane Studies. Until early that year, he had
Is civil government the only true government? Does it alone possess legitimate sovereignty? Defenders of the modern state insist that this is the case, and that it should be the case. Robert Nisbet, as a sociologist, looked to social organizations as the source of political tradition. He explained the rise of the modern state in terms of series of
If you don’t mind, I am going to do what men of my age do from time to time, and that is tell you war stories—usually insufferably boring for younger people, but occasionally enlightening if you find that perhaps you are going through a similar trial. I want to talk about my own situation in 1961, ’62, ’63, when I was an undergraduate. It was a
In 1977, Lew Rockwell was the editor of Private Practice, a journal of medical economics . That year, he put together three teams of speakers to present evening seminars for physicians in three dozen cities. The teams made the case against tax-funded medicine. On each team was a physician from Canada, one from England, and maybe one from
“Do I see this as the end of freedom? No, I see it is the end of the fascist state.” I have lived through three monumental historical events. I remember only two of them. I do not remember the dropping of the two atomic bombs in August of 1945. As symbols of scientific world transformation, this constituted the most momentous event of the 20th
I have decided to fund a project: the production of a study guide for Henry Hazlitt’s book The Failure of the “New Economics.” This is the fiftieth anniversary of its publication. When it first appeared, it was a ray of hope to those of us who were undergraduates. Here, for the first time, was a chapter-by-chapter, concept-by-concept refutation of
[Excerpted from Honest Money (1986)] You shall do no injustice in judgment. You shall not be partial to the poor, nor honor the person of the mighty. But in righteousness you shall judge your neighbor (Leviticus 19:15). Three counterfeiters are discovered. The first one is a middle-class man who owns a cheap offset printing press. He has printed
The Mystery of Banking is a unique academic treatise on money and banking, a book that combines erudition, clarity of expression, economic theory, monetary theory, economic history, and an appropriate dose of conspiracy theory. Anyone who attempts to explain the mystery of banking — a deliberately contrived mystery in many ways — apart from all of
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