Biographies
Rothbard as Intellectual Inspiration
By serving customers as an entrepreneur, or following in Murray's footsteps as a scholar and teacher. Austrian economics is the intellectual backbone for the freedom movement.
We Need Mencken Now
"Beyond his brilliant writing style, Mencken's great contribution was his courage to write what he thought."
How to Achieve Scientific “Consensus”
Your high-publicity stunts before Congress, at the National Academy of the Sciences, the IPCC, and in the press will put you directly in the crosshairs of just such a maniac, I fear, especially if you don't quit while you're ahead.For the sake of science, Dick, for the sake of collegiality, for your own sake, give it a rest. You know as well as I do that the issue isn't global warming. The issue is what side of the bread our butter is on.
Libertarianism and the Old Right
Koch organizations are no longer shocked to see us taking different views in areas like vouchers and trade treaties. They serve one agenda with a particular style, approach, and audience, and we serve another with a different style, approach, and audience.
The Spring is Silent on DDT
The politics of the environmentalists are increasingly predictable and obvious. They oppose all forms of capitalistic innovation. Indeed, they represent a special kind of danger to the human race that socialism never did.
Friedman Contra Rothbard
In a series of posts to an Internet discussion group several years ago, David Friedman severely criticized Murray Rothbard's account of Adam Smith in his Economic Thought Before Adam Smith
The Muddied Waters of Adam Smith’s Life
James Buchan’s new book provides further evidence to support Murray Rothbard’