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Back to SearchRoger Williams: Exemplar of America’s Soul
Roger Williams, the Baptist minister whose libertarian views ran afoul of the Massachusetts Bay Colony authorities, should be honored as one of this …
4 months, 1 week ago
The Meaning of Revolution
The revolutionaries include the pamphleteer writing in his study, the journalist, the agitator, the organizer, the campus activist, the theoretician,…
4 months, 1 week ago
Food Stamps and the Federal War on Self-Reliance
The government “shutdown” and the so-called threat to the food stamp program may be abated for now, but we need to understand why this program has me…
4 months, 1 week ago
Rothbard: World War I as the Triumph of Progressive Intellectuals
November 11 was once known as Armistice Day, the day set aside to celebrate the end of WWI. In this essay Rothbard discusses the war as the triumph o…
4 months, 1 week ago
On Resisting Evil
We libertarians may be anti-state, but that we are emphatically not anti-society or opposed to the real world, however contaminated it might be.
Orig…
4 months, 1 week ago
Dystopia Misdiagnosed: How the Rich Drive Health Innovation
The dystopian futuristic movie Elysium portrays a terrible future in which only the rich have medical care while the poor suffer on an overpopulated,…
4 months, 2 weeks ago
Hobbes’s Accidental Case Against the State
If Hobbes is right about human nature, then he is wrong about the state as a solution. Ironically, his key arguments for the state are actually key r…
4 months, 2 weeks ago
The Election of Mamdani: What It Means – And What It Doesn’t Mean
While giddy socialists are proclaiming that Zohran Mamdani's electoral victory is the beginning of a socialist takeover of the U.S., the Democratic S…
4 months, 2 weeks ago
Recipes with Rothbard: What Chocolate Cake Can Teach About Economics
When studying praxeology, something as trivial as the recipe for chocolate cake can become a way to better teach us Austrian economics.
Original artic…
4 months, 3 weeks ago
Murray Rothbard and World War II Origins
Murray Rothbard’s view of the origins of World War II has an important lesson for us today.
Original article: https://mises.org/mises-wire/murray-roth…
4 months, 3 weeks ago