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Plenty of reasonable people can disagree about foreign policy. What’s really strange is when one reasonable position is completely and forcibly excluded from the public debate. Such was the case after 9-11. Every close observer of the events of those days knows full well that these crimes were acts of revenge for US policy in the Muslim world. The

Kenny Johnsson interviews Llewellyn H. Rockwell, Jr., for The Liberal Post Johnsson : Do you consider yourself a libertarian? Rockwell : Most certainly. What are the choices? Conservative is obviously out, even though the media describe us this way. The term’s heritage dates to the Tory party in Britain, the very mercantilist-landowners who

[This talk was delivered on June 1, 2007, at the Future of Freedom Foundation ‘s Conference on “Restoring the Republic: Foreign Affairs and Civil Liberties.”] There are two clear and present dangers to liberty in America. One is known as the Left, and the other is known as the Right. They are dangerous because they seek to use government to mold

Remember those old photographs taken during World War II, with Churchill, Stalin, and Roosevelt, plus selected others, posing as masters of the universe? The victors were meeting to carve up Europe, divide the spoils, plan the future, map out a plan for our lives. Of course they created a political and economic disaster, which is what happens when

There are precious few things that unite adults today, topics that can serve as table talk for us all. But a particularly joyful one concerns the advertising campaigns of our youth. We remember soap ads, candy ads, toothpaste ads, toy ads, and, of course, breakfast food ads. The breakfast ads were particularly delightful because they were directed

[On Saturday, June 23, Hans F. Sennholz died at the age of 85. In October 2004, he was awarded the Gary G. Schlarbaum Prize for lifetime defense of liberty. This article is taken from Lew Rockwell’s introduction to Professor Sennholz.] Hans F. Sennholz is one of the handful of economists who dared defend free markets and sound money during the

It’s not often I can say it, so enjoy: the Supreme Court did the right thing. It has reversed a century-old rule that criminalized retail price agreements. Good. Great. There are 10 million bad regulations to go. Now, if you just happen to be reading over the Constitution, you will note that it does not give government power to tell manufacturers

Every time Bush stands up to speak about the war, how we have to stick it out, how we have to stand up against evil, how our nation is being called to do its historic duty, I have the same thought: and what are you doing besides making this stupid speech? Presidents speak as if they somehow embody the will of the nation, and so the courage shown

A hysteria of sorts has been generated by reports that some of China’s products lack quality control. Some cat food has been tainted. A few cell phone batteries have blown up. Cough syrup contained stuff that makes you sick. And so on. In response, the Chinese government actually executed its regulatory head of food and product safety, Zheng

Jittery stock markets, an economy drunk on credit, and politicians calling for varieties of dictatorship: what a sense of déjà vu! Let us recall that the world went bonkers for about ten years way back when. The stock market crashed in 1929, thanks to the Federal Reserve, and with it fell the last remnants of the old liberal ideology that