Mises Search

[Transcribed from the Libertarian Tradition podcast episode “H.L. Mencken.”] September 2010 marked the 130th anniversary of Henry Louis Mencken’s birth. He was born in Baltimore, September 12, 1880, grew up there, went to school there, and took up newspapering there around the turn of the 20th century, when he was a teenaged high-school graduate

[Transcribed from the Libertarian Tradition podcast episode “Anarchism and Terrorism.”] As Alex Butterworth tells the tale, it was “in the early years of the twenty-first century,” when a British Home Secretary recommended that those wishing to understand what at that time was still termed the “War on Terror” should look back to the 1890s.

[Transcribed from the Libertarian Tradition podcast episode “John T. Flynn: Revisionist Journalist.”]   To simply say, as I did recently , that John T. Flynn, the American journalist who lived from 1882 to 1964, was a liberal does not really explain why he is important to modern libertarians. Flynn was a liberal, all right. But so were lots of

Transcribed from the Libertarian Tradition podcast episode “Joseph A. Labadie.”   It was 77 years ago, — on October 7, 1933, to be exact — that Joseph A. Labadie died. He died, at the age of 83, in Detroit, Michigan, where he had lived almost his entire adult life. Labadie was born in 1850 in a portion of southwestern Michigan that was inhabited

[Transcribed from the Libertarian Tradition podcast episode “Henry Hazlitt.”]   During the academic year that encompassed the fall term of 1964 and the spring term of 1965, I was a freshman in college. I was also in my first year of intercollegiate debate, after four years of interscholastic debate in high school. I’m sure debate has evolved in

[Transcribed from the Libertarian Tradition podcast episode “Robert Nozick.”]   Early in 1970, at the age of 23, I did something I’d never done before. Yes, yes, I know, people of that age often stick their necks out in such fashion. But in my case, the thing I’d never done before wasn’t particularly daring or dangerous; it was merely unusual,

[Transcribed from the Libertarian Tradition podcast episode “Ira Levin”]   Ira Levin was an American novelist, playwright, and songwriter who is best known today, three years after his death, for the immensely successful film versions of his least interesting novels. Levin was born in the Bronx on August 27, 1929. He grew up there and on the Upper

[Transcribed from the Libertarian Tradition podcast episode “The Art of Not Being Governed”]   I figure part of my job around here is to call attention to new books that relate in some way to the libertarian tradition — that is, to the history of libertarian thought. One such book was first published a little over a year ago, in September 2009, by

[Transcribed from the Libertarian Tradition podcast episode “The Auctioneer”]   Joan Samson was a Depression baby, born in 1937. She died of cancer in 1976, when she was still in her 30s. In 1975, the year before her death, she published her only novel, The Auctioneer . This seems to be just about the sum total of what is publicly known regarding

[Transcribed from the Libertarian Tradition podcast episode “Frank Chodorov, Educator”] Frank Chodorov was an early-20th-century Georgist libertarian who devoted the last two decades of his life — basically the 1940s and ‘50s — to advocacy journalism. He was also a militant nonvoter. “A people can vote themselves into slavery,” he wrote, “though