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Paul Gottfried writes as follows: I’ve just reread Bob Higgs’s Schlarbaum Address , which is so BRILLIANT that it would require an entire book to answer the questions therein raised. Bob is absolutely correct that “liberal democratic” government is unmistakably oligarchic, that it continues to put its subjects in harm’s way, and that it milks

This talk was delivered at the Costa Mesa Mises Circle on Society Without the State , November 8, 2014. The term “anarcho-capitalism” has, we might say, rather an arresting quality. But while the term itself may jolt the newcomer, the ideas it embodies are compelling and attractive, and represent the culmination of a long development of thought.

Among those who are bemoaning the election results, one must ask supporters of liberty: given the choices, what would have been a good outcome? We’ve lived through eight years of what might possibly be the worst executive-driven meltdown of human liberty outside civil or world war in American history, and this is true regarding domestic policy and

Everyone interested in ideas has surely had the following experience. You become curious about a certain topic. You start with periodicals, read a bit more deeply, become engaged more broadly and start to buy and check out book after book. Pretty soon you have a good-sized library developing. You speak the language. You know the players. You apply

[This speech was delivered at the offices of the Mises Institute, September 14, 1999, the date on which Human Action was published 50 years ago. The Mises Institute published the pocket paperback edition in November 2010. ] In a 1949 memo circulated within Yale University Press, the publicity department expressed astonishment at the rapid sales of

Dear Friend, Ron Paul has given us a huge opportunity. With your help, we intend to take full advantage of it. I mean, of course, Ron’s teaching of Austrian economics and the free market, and the crimes of the Fed and the government, to millions of young people. He touched hearts and changed minds in a way I’ve never seen, though Murray Rothbard

Dear Friends, April 15th is a horrible day, because it sums up all the wealth destruction called taxation that we are subjected to all year long. As Murray Rothbard pointed out, taxation is the worst method of looting us. Inflation is destructive, of course, and it might make a loaf of bread cost $10. But at least you get a loaf of bread. With

The explosive growth in the number of converts to libertarianism since Ron Paul first ran for president is one of the most exciting developments of my lifetime. But I’d like to issue a note of caution. There are several ways a young libertarian can distinguish himself. He can be an effective communicator of libertarian ideas as a writer or

Can government do a better job than the market in any area of the economy? Consider: the tax-funded Human Genome Project, sponsored by the National Institutes of Health. It held out the promise of mapping the entire structure of DNA, which in turn would lead to unparalleled medical breakthroughs. This program appeared ideally suited to government.

Clinton wants his private life back. His personal behavior is his business alone, and his family’s. It’s a moral outrage that a government prosecutor wants to turn a private matter into a public one. Ken Starr’s power is wholly illegitimate. Welcome to the early 19th century, when people actually did have private lives because the government dared