Of the big five of the libertarian movement — Von Mises, Hayek, Rand, Rothbard and Friedman — who is your favorite? Doherty: Murray Rothbard, and I’ll tell you why. Rothbard, in one way, was the most distinctly libertarian of the libertarians. He was influenced a lot by both Mises and Rand, not so much by Hayek and Friedman. He brought together
Yes, it sounds very much like Rodney King , but it is a question the War Party never wants to answer as they do not want to play by the market’s rules as Jacob Hornberger has illustrated with regard to the U.S. government’s foreign policy of empire , militarism , and intervention . Recently, Russian foreign minister Sergey Lavrov tried to be
The establishment mouthpiece The Politico , published by Robert Allbritton (media “maven,” royalist, and of scandalous Riggs Bank infamy*), has just released a disingenuous review of Brian Doherty’s Radicals for Capitalism that exhibits a strong scent of desperation. The reviewer seems to get a few things right, but seems to have misunderstood the
While I have not been able to slog through Ayn Rand’s “magnum opus,” perhaps adult worker bees have as scientists try to explain the massive disappearance of honey bee colonies in the United States and Europe. Colony Collapse Disorder (CCD) has been discovered in 27 American states, Croatia, Spain, Switzerland, Portugal, Turkey, Greece, Poland,
The Mises archives are truly a wonderful thing. I was reading the brilliant and deserved article on the illustrious Pascal Salin by Dr. Hülsmann when I found this insightful interview with Dr. Salin . I was struck by this question and answer: AEN: Last night, Ralph Raico argued that achieving the goal of a free society will require more than
You might recall this story on the presiding judge in the I. Lewis “Scooter” Libby trial ordering classified and “sensitive” documents be made available to the public. Well, we got a glimpse of a few of them this week and as the Impeach For Peace Blog points out they are quite reminiscent of The Onion’s article from November 30th, 2005: CIA
In more lawsuit news, a 16-year-old being sued for online music piracy accused the recording industry on Tuesday of violating antitrust laws, conspiring to defraud the courts and making extortionate threats. Robert Santangelo and his lawyer, Jordan Glass, responded at length on Tuesday, raising 32 defenses, demanding a jury trial and filing a
In addition to the Downing Street memo, we now have former chief of the CIA’s European division, Tyler Drumheller, in an interview with Spiegel Magazine discussing that the administration ignored CIA advice and used whatever information it could find to justify an invasion of Iraq . The most controversial paragraph of the Downing Street memo is a
With a nod to Tyler Cowen , I present: Far Away, Super Bowl’s Losers Will Be Champs. In some parts of the world, the Seattle Seahawks are the reigning Super Bowl champions, the Buffalo Bills are the last great football dynasty and Tom Brady is some frustrated quarterback from New England who can never win it all. So say the T-shirts and the caps
Swiss Communications Minister Moritz Leuenberger has suggested a ‘tax on information’ to help bridge the digital divide between wealthy countries with good communication infrastructure and poor countries where most of the population have no access to modern communications. Leuenberger revealed his proposal to a United Nations meeting convened to
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