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[This article is excerpted from a 30,000-word memo to the Volker Fund, 1961. The full memo is available in  Strictly Confidential: The Private Volker Fund Memos of Murray N. Rothbard edited by David Gordon.] The Road to Civil War The road to Civil War must be divided into two parts: the causes of the controversy over slavery leading to secession,

[This article is excerpted from Conceived in Liberty , chapter 36, “King George’s War.”]   What, in all this time, was happening to Plymouth, the mother colony of all New England? Succinctly, it was rapidly and irretrievably declining. As we have seen, its fur trade had virtually disappeared by 1640. And for the next 20 years, only further decline

Demand calls forth supply in the world of economic journals as much as in the “real” economic world. The proliferation of new journals since World War II has been a function of the increasing number of Ph.D.s and of the acute exigencies of “publish or perish.” But there is another category of new journals more relevant to this one: periodicals

[Chapter 80, “Was the American Revolution Radical?,” from Murray N. Rothbard’s Conceived in Liberty , vol. 4, The Revolutionary War, 1775–1784 .] Especially since the early 1950s, America has been concerned with opposing revolutions throughout the world; in the process, it has generated a historiography that denies its own revolutionary past. This

As you spend the day with family and friends, we thought you might take some time away from bowl games to enjoy a vintage Rothbard speech that touches on twin themes appropriate to January 1st: reflecting on the past while looking to the future. Filmed on the Stanford University campus at the second Mises University in 1988, he contemplates the

Introduction The Problem of Free Will The False Mechanical Analogies of Scientism The False Organismic Analogies of Scientism Axioms and Deduction Science and Values: Arbitrary Ethics Conclusion: Individualism vs. Collectivism in the Study of Man [Reprinted from Scientism and Values , Helmut Schoeck and James W. Wiggins, eds. (Princeton, N.J.: D.

This article was originally published in the Cato Journal 2, No. 1 (Spring 1982): 55–99.   Law as a Normative Discipline Physical Invasion Initiation of an Overt Act: Strict Liability The Proper Burden of Risk The Proper Burden of Proof Strict Causality Liability of the Aggressor Only A Theory of Just Property: Homesteading Nuisances, Visible and

This article is excerpted from the first chapter of For a New Liberty: The Libertarian Manifesto . An audiobook version of this chapter, read by Jeff Riggenbach, including a new introduction, written and read by Llewellyn H. Rockwell, Jr., is also available . Introduction After the Revolution Resistance to Liberty Decay From Within Introduction On

Introduction I. The Market vs. Government II. The Structure and Goals of Bureaucracy III. Limiting Terms of Office in the Original American States IV. The Civil Service vs. Rotation in Office V. The United States Civil Service: The Federalist Beginnings VI. The Failed Jeffersonian Revolution VII. Andrew Jackson and the “Spoils System” VIII. The

Listen to  the  Audio Mises Wire  version  of this article. [This article first appeared in the L ibertarian Forum , January 1, 1970.] Now that the New Left has abandoned its earlier loose, flexible non-ideological stance, two ideologies have been adopted as guiding theoretical positions by New Leftists: Marxism-Stalinism, and anarcho-communism.