[Reprinted from Fragments , Spring 1995.] It has happened with every great radical in history: the moment he dies and is safely interred, interpreters and commentators leap in to dilute and bowdlerize his thought and his stature, and often succeed in transforming his public image into that of a safe and sound member of the conservative
[This article is taken from chapter 19 of The Ethics of Liberty . The full audiobook is available for download .] The right of property implies the right to make contracts about that property: to give it away or to exchange titles of ownership for the property of another person. Unfortunately, many libertarians, devoted to the right to make
[From the October 1969 issue of Libertarian Forum .] It has come to our attention increasingly of late that many self-proclaimed libertarians balk at the idea of abolishing slavery. It is almost incredible to contemplate, for one would think that at least the minimal definition of a libertarian is someone who favors the immediate abolition of
This first appeared in The Libertarian Forum, Vol VI, No. 6-7, June-July,1972, following the attempted assassination of Presidential candidate George Wallace. John F. Kennedy; Malcolm X; Martin Luther King; Robert F. Kennedy; and now George Corley Wallace: the litany of political assassinations and attempts in the last decade rolls on. (And we
[From Reflections on America, 1984: An Orwell Symposium . Ed. Robert Mulvihill. Athens and London, University of Georgia Press, 1986.] In a recent and well-known article, Norman Podhoretz has attempted to conscript George Orwell into the ranks of neoconservative enthusiasts for the newly revitalized cold war with the Soviet Union. If Orwell
This article is chapter 4 from Economic Controversies (2011). It originally appeared in The Foundations of Modern Austrian Economics (1976). Praxeology is the distinctive methodology of the Austrian School. The term was first applied to the Austrian method by Ludwig von Mises, who was not only the major architect and elaborator of this methodology
[ Editor’s note: The article below is adapted from a lengthy 1954 memo by Rothbard which is written largely as a review of George B. DeHuszar and Thomas Hulbert Stevenson’s A History of the American Republic . The memo was republished in 2010 by the Mises Institute as part of Strictly Confidential: The Private Volker Fund Memos of Murray N.
In the spring of 1981, conservative Republicans in the House of Representatives cried. They cried because, in the first flush of the Reagan Revolution that was supposed to bring drastic cuts in taxes and government spending, as well as a balanced budget, they were being asked by the White House and their own leadership to vote for an increase in
[Day 14 of Robert Wenzel’s 30-day reading list that will lead you to become a knowledgeable libertarian, this article was first published in December 1993. It appears as chapter 35, “The Health Plan’s Devilish Principles,” in Making Economic Sense (1995, 2006).] The standard media cliché about the Clinton health plan is that God, or the Devil,
[Day 20 of Robert Wenzel’s 30-day reading list that will lead you to become a knowledgeable libertarian, this article is excerpted from Making Economic Sense , chapter 36, “Outlawing Jobs: The Minimum Wage, Once More.”] There is no clearer demonstration of the essential identity of the two political parties than their position on the minimum wage.
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