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Abolitionism, 15, 16, 302-305
Abortion, 107-108
Accreditation of colleges and universities,139
Acton, Lord, 31
Ad Hoc Committee on the Triple Revolution, 243
Affluence, as excessive in liberals' view, 243, 244
Aggression: collective security against, 267-69
Agricultural Adjustment Administration, 281
Agriculture, Department of, 262
Airlines, 75
Air pollution, 75, 256-42
Albanian-Americans, 151
Alcoholic beverages, 111-12
American Arbitration Association, 223
American Civil Liberties Union, 106
American colonies, 3-6
American Railway Association, 205
American Revolution, 1-2, 4-6
Amin, Idi, 289
Anarchy, 221
Anderson, Martin, 169n
Anti-Imperialist League, 18-19
Antonik v. Chamberlain, 257-58
Appeal courts, 226-27
Aquaculture, 252-53
Arbitrators, private, 223-25
Army, 5; involuntary servitude in, 81-83; standing, 82-83. See also
Conscription; Militarism; Military-industrial complex; War
Articles of Confederation, 5
Atkinson, Edward, 18, 263-64
Atomic Energy Commission, 262
Atomistic individualists, 28
Automation, hysteria about, 243
Automobiles. See Traffic congestion
Austrian School of economics, 173-74; business-cycle theory of, 187-93
Bail, 89
Bailyn, Bernard, 4, 8, 83n
Banfield, Edward C., 137, 151-54
Bangla Desh, 269
Bank credit, business cycle and, 185-93
Bank demand deposits ('checkbook money"), 179-83
Banks (banking system), 77; business cycles and, 184; fractional reserve, 178-85. See also Federal Reserve
System
Barnard, Henry, 125
Baron Report, The, 319-20
Baruch, Bernard, 279
Bateman, Newton, 125-26
Beard, Charles A., 281
Benton, Thomas Hart, 7
Berlin, University of, 60
Big Business, 309-10
Big Government, in nineteenth-century, 10
Bill of Rights, 65
Birth control, 107
Bismarck, Otto von, 10, 18
Black, Charles, 65-67
Black communities, police in, 205
Black, Hugo, 94
Bourne, Randolph, 277-78
Boycott, 96, 224
Brehm, C. T., I45n
Brehons, 232-33
Bright, John, 264
Broadcast media. See Radio; Television
Brothels, 106
Brozen, Yale, 158n, 159, 163, 167
Bubb, Frank, 258
Buchanan, James, 140
Buckley, William F., Jr., 293-94
Burchard, Hank, 210n
Bureaucracy, 15, 126-27
Bundy, McGeorge, 59
Burnham, James, 54, 55
Business cycle, 183-93; Austrian (Misesian or monetary-overinvestment) theory of, 187-93; recurrence
of, 186, 190-91; Ricardian theory of, 185-87
Businessmen: receptivity to libertarian ideas, 310, 312; small, 352
Bussing for racial integration, 131-32
Butler, Maj. Gen. Smedley D., 291-92
Calhoun, John C., 48, 52-53, 67
Calvin, John, 123
Carnegie, Andrew, 249
Cartels, 10, 11, 279
Carter, Jimmy, 319
Capitalism, liberal complaints against, 242-44. See also Free-market economy
Catholics, 125; abortion and, 107-8 See also Schools-parochial
"Cato's Letters" (Trenchard and Gordon), 4
Central planning, 199; failure of, 316
Cigarettes, ban on advertising of, 112
Civil Aeronautics Board (CAB), 159, 256
Civil liberties, 23
Civil obedience, 54
Civil War, 8, 278-9
Charity Organisation Society, 147, 155-56
Checks and balances, system of, 235-36
China, 272 286, 289; ancient, 56
Chodorov, Frank, 39
Christy, Francis T., Jr., 254
Church: divine tight of kings and, 64; separation of State and, 3, 5, 11; union of State and,
55
Class, social: taxation and, 52-53. See also Lower-class culture; Upper-class
culture
Class action suits, air pollution and, 258, 260
Classical liberals, 2, 6, 8,12-19, 315; decay of, 14-19; socialism and,
13-14
Club of Rome Report, 246-48
Cobden, Richard, 264
Coerced testimony, 86-87
Coercion, taxation and, 25-26, 47
Cohen, Stephen F., 288
Colby, William, 288-89
Cold War, 275-76
Collective security, 267-68
Colleges: accreditation of, 139; subsidization of, 138,
140; trustee-run, 139-40
Colonial America, 3-6
Common law, 228-30, 257, 258
Communism (Communist movement): Cold War and, 275-76; right of self-ownership and, 29; schisms
in, 287. See also Marxism-Leninism
Connecticut, 123
Conquest, origin of the State by, 63-64
Conscription, as involuntary servitude, 23-25, 79-81
Conservation of resources, 247-54
Conservatism (Conservatives): military-industrial complex and, 279-80; nineteenth-century,9-12;pornography and,
103-105; receptivity to libertarian ideas, 309; socialism and, 13; tax
cuts and, 306; welfare system criticized by, 154-55
Conspiracy theory of history, 57
Constitution, U.S., 48
Constitutions, written, 48-49
Consumer demand, money supply and, 175
Consumption/investment (or savings), business cycle and, 187-93
Contempt of court, 89
Contraception, 107
Corporate State, 10
Courts: air pollution and, 257-59; in ancient Ireland, 231-33; appeal,
226-27; broadcast media and, 101-102; common law, 228-30; enforcement of
decisions of, in a libertarian society, 225; legal code and, in a libertarian society,
227-34; in a libertarian society, 222-34; private arbitration as
alternative to, 223-25; venal and biased, 234-36. Sec also Judicial system
Credit expansion. See Bank credit
Crime, 41, 318; in New York City, 197, 201-202, 204, 205; society and, 38-39; in the streets,
74 (see also Streets-police protection of); victimless, 23, 105, 113. See
also Judicial system; Juvenile delinquency; Police
Criminals: imprisonment of, 87-89; punishment of, 87-88; restitution to victim by, 45-46, 88; wiretapping of
suspected, 108-109
Crisis situations, 312-13; in the United States, 317
Crocker, Thomas D., 262n
Crowther Committee, 137
Cuba, 272
Culture, public welfare and, 151-54
Cycles, business. See Business cycles
Dales, J. H., 262n
Day-care centers, 156-57
Death rates, lower-class, 152
Declaration of Independence, 3
Defense, national, 237-41
De Jouvenel, Bertrand, 56, 64
Demand deposits ("checkbook money"),179-83
Democracy, 13; parliamentary, 64
Democratic party, 6, 7; as classical liberal party, 18; 1844 presidential nomination and, 7-8
Demonstrations, 96-97
Depression, 185, 186; in Austrian (Misesian) theory, 189-93. See also Great Depression; Recession
Destatization, plans for, 306-307
DeVany, A., 103n
Devletoglou, Nicos E., 140
Diem, Ngo Dinh, 273
Disarmament, 292-94
Discrimination, 206-207
Divine right of kings, 59-64
Doenecke, Justus D., 274n
Doeringer, Peter, 153
Dolan, Edwin G., 255-56
Donahue, Charles, 233n
Dos Passos, John, 281-82
Drugs, 111-12
Dyckman, John, 210
Eastern Europe, 316; Soviet policy toward, 285-87
Economic determinism, 57, 58
Economic growth, liberal attacks on, 243-47
Economics: Austrian School of, 173-74, 187-93; free-market, 16; Keynesian
(see Keynesian economics)
Economy: classical liberalism and, 2-3; free market, 24, 39-42
Education, 12, 76-77,119-41; formal schooling confused with, 120-21; higher,
133, 138-41; libertarian movement and,
297-99, 308-309; "right" to, 134. See also Schools
Emotivists, 26
Empire, classical liberals and, 17-18. See also Imperialism
Energy, 249
England: Norman conquest of, 64; private arbitration in, 224; private roads in 213
English Revolution, 2, 3
Ennis, Bruce, 91-92
Equality, 42; socialism and, 13
"Essex Junto," 129
Ethnic minorities, public schools and, 124-25
Evolutionism (social Darwinism), 16-17
Excise taxes, 86, 160
Farm price supports, 158
Fear instilled by State, 57
Federal Bureau of Reclamation, 159
Federal Communication Commission
(FCC), 98, 99, 102, 103
Federal Housing Administration, 159
Federalist party, 6, 7
Federal Radio Commission (FRC), 102, 103
Federal Reserve Notes, 179, 182
Federal Reserve System, 179-85; money supply and, 179-83; reserve requirements of, 180
Feudalism, 5
Fifth Amendment, income tax and, 86
Finland, 285, 287
Fishing, 253-54
Flynn, John T., 280-81
Forced labor. See Involuntary servitude
Foreign intervention, 263, 264
Foreign policy, 74; American, 270-77; avoiding a priori history and, 289-91;
Cold War, 275-76; "collective security" concept and, 267-68; German, 284-86; libertarian, 291-92;
limiting government in, 264-70; Soviet, 282-89. See also Imperialism;
Isolationism; War
Forest Service, 250
Forests, 250
France, 273, 286
Free contract, 24
Freedom: libertarian definition of, 41; for prostitution, 106-107
Freedom of radio and television, 98-103
Freedom of speech: incitement to riot and, 95; libel and slander and, 95-96; picketing and
demonstration and, 96-97; property rights and, 43-44, 69, 94, 97; shouting "fire" in a crowded theatre and,
43-44
Freedom of the press: property rights and, 42, 43, 69; radio and television and, 98, 99;
scholastic freedom and, 129
Free exchange, 39-42
Free market, in services and goods currently supplied by government, 194-200
Free-market capitalism, liberal intellectuals' complaints against, 242-44
Free-market economy, 24, 39-42; business cycle and, 184-85
Friedman, Milton, 27, 260-61; "voucher plan" of, 135
Future orientation, welfare system and, 151-54
Galbraith, John Kenneth, 78, 243
Gambling, 109-11
Garrett, Garet, 276-77
Garrison, William Lloyd, 15, 302-303
Gasoline tax, 209
George, Henry, 34
Georgists, 34, 35
Germany, 18; compulsory education in, 122- 23; foreign policy of, 284-86
Gold standard, 176-77, 182, 183
Goodman, Paul, 120-122
Good Samaritans, 118
Gordon, Thomas, 4
Gould, Stephen Jay, 17n
Gouldner, Alvin, 153-54
Government: American Revolution and, 6; "Cato's Letters" on, 4; classes created by,
52-53; distinguished from other institutions, 46-47; Jeffersonian and Jacksonian views of, 7;
just owner of property as defined by, 30-31; limitations on powers of, 48-49; public schools
and, 126-28; services and operations performed by, 194-200. See also Bureaucracy; State, the;
and specific agencies, bureaus, and departments
Government bonds, 181, 182
Government contracts, 158, 280
Government expenditures, 171, 280, 281; drastic reduction in, 164
Government securities, 181, 182
Gradualism, 16, 17, 299-305
Grasslands, destruction of, 251-52
Great Britain, 316; classical liberal movement in, 2-3. See also England
Great Depression, 173, 192
Greece, 286
Green, Arnold W., 38-39
Guaranteed annual income, 167-70
Guerrilla warfare, 269-70
Guilt, the State's use of, 58
Gun laws, 114-18
Habit, 55-56
Hamowy, Ronald, 293-94
Hansen, W. Lee, 138
Harper, F. A., 163
Harrington, Michael, 243
Harrison, Gen. William Henry, 7
Harvard study on handguns, 177
Hayek, Friedrich A., 173, 300-301
Hays, Samuel P., 251-52
Hazlitt, Henry, 143n, 169n
Henry, Patrick, 83
Higginson, Stephen, 129
Highway program, 208-10
Highways, pricing, 208, 214
Hill, James J. 249-50
Historical determinism, 57
History, conspiracy theory of, 57,
Holmes, Oliver Wendell, 43
Homesteaders, 34
Homesteading: destruction of grasslands and, 251; property rights in airwaves, 101, 102
Hoopes, Townsend, 61
Hoover, Herbert C., 101, 279
Horwitz, Morton J., 257
Housing: discrimination in, 206-207; urban, 76
Huber, Ernst, 61
Human nature, 28
Human rights, property rights and, 42-44
Hume, David, 53
Immunity laws, 87
Imperialism: classical liberals and, 17-19; defined, 273-74; United States', 270-77
Imprisonment, 87-89
Income, guaranteed annual, 167-70
Income distribution, inequality in, 163
Income redistribution: higher education and, 138; welfare state and, 157-62
Income taxes, 73; colleges and, 139; negative, 167-70; as regressive,
159-60; withholding, 85-86
Indeterminate Sentencing, 92-93
Individual: deprecated by the State, 56-57; society and, 37-39
Industrial Revolution, 9, 314
Industrialism, 9-10, 12-13
Infant mortality, 152
Inflation, 77; explanations of, 174-75; money supply and, 175-83. See also Business cycle
Inflationary recession ("stagflation"), 77, 172-73, 174n; Austrian theory of business cycle and, 191-92
Inheritance, 41
Institute for Policy Studies, 166-67
Insurance company detectives, 217-18
Integration, school, 131-32
Intellectuals: as apologists for the state, 25; national security, 59-62; nineteenth-century statist conservatism
and, 11-12; the State and, 54-69
Interest rate, business cycle and, 187-89
International affairs. See Foreign policy; Imperialism; War
Involuntary servitude, 79-93; in the army, 81-83; compulsory commitment of mental patients as, 90-93, 318;
conscription as, 79-81; in judicial and penal systems, 86-90; taxation as, 85-86. See also Slavery
Ireland, ancient (Celtic), 64, 231-33, 240
Irish immigrants, 152
Irrationality, 11-12
Isolationism, 263-65, 275-77, 291
Italy, 286
Jackson, Andrew, 7, 8
Jackson, Jonathan, 129
Jacksonian libertarians, 7
Jacobs, Norman, 56
Jarvis-Gann initiative, 73
Jefferson, Thomas, 7
Jeffersonian movement, 6-7
Judges: common law, 228-30; Roman, 230; selection and appointment of, 222-23,
230; venal and biased, 234-36
Judicial review, 65-67
Judicial system; in ancient Ireland, 231-33; involuntary-servitude aspects of, 86-90; in
libertarian society, 222-34. See also Courts; Trial
Jury duty, compulsory, 89-90
Juvenile delinquency, public schooling and, 137
Kates, Don B., Jr., 115-18
Kellems, Vivien, 85-86
Kelsen, Hans, 51
Kennan, George F., 60
Kennedy, Joseph P., 275-76
Kenyon, Cecilia, 77
Keynes, Sir John M., 171n, 173, 315-16
Keynesian economics, 171, 280; business cycle and, 192, 193
King, in ancient Ireland, 232
Knapp Commission, 112
Korean War, 59-60, 274-76
Kristol, Irving, 146
Ku Klux Klan, 126
Labor force, public schools and training of 136-37
Labor unions: anti-strike laws and, 83-85; public schooling and, 137; strikes by, 76
Laissez-faire liberals, 12-16, 26-27; pollution and, 261-62
Land, property rights in, 33-36
Lao-tse, 62-63
Latin America, 63-64
Law: in ancient Ireland, 231-33; common, 228-30,
257, 258; Roman, 230
Legal code, in a libertarian society, 227-34
Legitimacy, 237; judiciary and, 65-67
Lenin, V. I., 283, 284, 313n
Leoni, Bruno, 229-30
Levasseur, Emile, 37n
Lewis, Samuel, 125
Libel, 95-96
Liberal Imperialism, 18
Liberal intellectuals, complaints of, 242-44
Liberals (liberal movement), 309-10; classical (see Classical liberals);
laissez-faire, 12-16, 26-27; pornography and, 103-105
Libertarianism (libertarian movement), 1, 2; of American Revolution, 4-6; contradictions in
rhetoric and, 307-308; education and, 297-99, 308-309; groups receptive to, 309-13; left utopianism and,
303-304; "left wing sectarianism" and, 299, 305-306; media and, 311;
Middle America and, 311-12; prospects of, 313-20; "right-wing
opportunists" and, 299-300, 305-306; society from point of view of, 37-39; transitional demands
of, 305-306; as "utopian" or realistic, 299-308; youth and, 311. See also
specific topics
Libertarian party, 1, 108, 306, 319-20; declaration of strategy by, 307
Libertarian theory, 297-99
Licensing, 165; of radio stations, 101-103
Liggio, Leonard, 274
Locke, John, 3; on property rights, 31-33, 36
Lower-class culture, public welfare and, 151-54
Luther, Martin, 122
McCone Commission, 145
McDermott, John, 122
Mackay, Thomas, 155
Macrae, Norman, 246
Maiken, Peter, 262n
Mann, Horace, 125
Marjorie Webster Junior College, 139
Marx, Karl, 237
Marxism-Leninism, 283
Massachusetts Bay Colony, 123
Matthew, Thomas, 165-66
Media, libertarian movement and, 311
Medical care, urban poor's attitudes and values and, 151-52
Meiburg, Charles O., 210n
Melman, Seymour, 280n
Mencken, H. L., 7, 56-57, 89n
Mental patients, compulsory commitment of, 90-93, 318
Mercantilism, 2, 6
Merchants' courts, private, 224
Michels, Robert, 50
Militarism, 280, 281; classical liberals and, 17-18
Military-industrial complex, 74-75; 279-80
Miller, Roger LeRoy, 253-54
MIND, 137
Minh, Ho Chi, 273
Minimum wage laws, 158
Minorities, public schools and, 124-25
Mises, Ludwig von, 124-25, 173, 174n, 315
Molinari, Gustave de, 219
Money, "checkbook." See Demand deposits
Money supply: business cycle and, 185, 191-93; inflation and, 175-83; Federal Reserve System and,
179-83. See also Bank credit; Bank demand deposits
Monopolies, government services as, 196,199
Moon, Parker T., 38
Morgenstern, George, 275
Mormon Church, welfare plan of, 148-151, 154
Mowat, 155
Murphey, Archibald D., 124
Narcotics, 111-12
National Association for the Advancement of Colored People, 245n
National defense, 237-41
National Industrial Recovery Act (1933), 84
National Recovery Administration, 281
National security intellectuals, 59-62
Nationalism, 58
Natural law, 27-28
Natural rights, 15-16; free-market economy and, 40; justice in property rights and, 30-31;
libertarian creed based on, 26-28; property rights based on, 31-37; self-ownership right and,
28-30
Needham, Joseph, 61
NEGRO, 165-66
Neustadt, Richard, 61
Neutrality, 291; laws of, 266
New Deal, 67, 280-82
"New Left" revisionist historians, 274
"New Light" movement, 123
New York City, 74, 75, 106, 143, 145, 317; crime in, 197,
201-202, 204, 215; off-track betting in, 110; police corruption in, 112, 113; water shortages in,
197
New York City Transit Authority, 198-99
Nixon, Richard, 6, 168, 169, 271
Nock, Albert Jay, 51, 121-22, 278
Noel-Baker, Philip, 292n
Noise pollution, 258
Nonaggression axiom, 23-26
Norris-LaGuardia Act (1933), 84
North, Douglass C., 253-54
Northside, Brooklyn, 151
North Vietnam, 273
Nuclear disarmament, 292-94
Ocean resources, 252-54
Oglesby, Carl, 274n
O'Gorman, Ned, 157
Oligarchic rule 50
Open market purchases, 180-81
Open range, 251-52
Oppenheimer, Franz, 50, 63n
Oregon, 126
Paasikivi, Julio, 287
Pacifists, 46, 270
Pakistan, 269
Parking, pricing, 211
Parliamentary democracy, 64
Participatory communalism, 29
Passell, P., 246, 248-49
Paterson, Isabel, 130-31, 163-64
Patriotism, 58
Peaceful coexistence, 265; as Soviet policy, 283-84
Peddling, Street, 165
Peden, Joseph, R., 231-33
Philanthropist, capitalist compared to, 163-64
Picketing, 96-97
Pierce v. Society of Sisters, 126
Piore, Michael J., 153
Poland, 284
Police: in black communities, 205; brutality, 202; corruption, 112-14; railway, 205; wiretapping by, 108-9
Police forces: clashes between, 220-22; outlaw, in a libertarian society, 236-37
Police protection, in private (free-market) economy, 201-205, 215-22
Pollution, 254, 262; air, 75, 256-62; of rivers 75, 255-56
Poole, Robert, Jr., 260
Poor, the: best ways for government to help, 162-67; government services and, 195-96; income redistribution and,
157-62; police protection for, in a free-market economy, 219-20; taxation system and, 159-62. See
also Welfare System
Population growth, welfare system and, 156
Pornography, 103-105
Postal Service, 76
Postal Service, U.S., 76, 158-59, 198-99
Poverty, liberal worry about, 243
Power: "Cato's Letters" on, 4; libertarian movement and, 308-9
Power shortages and blackouts, 75
Present-orientation, welfare system and,
151-54
President, Watergate and, 77, 78
Prices: money supply and, 175-76; supply demand relationship and, 176. See also Inflation
Primitive man, 252
Progressives, 12
Property rights, 23-24, 26-37; in airwaves, 98-103; freedom of speech and, 94, 97; human
rights and, 42-44; justice in, 30-31; in land, 33-36; libertarian theory
of, summary of, 36-37, 68-69; Locke on, 31-33, 36; in material objects, 31-33, 68; natural-rights
position on, 31-37; of producers, 31-33, 36-37, 68; self-ownership, 28-32
Property taxes, 73, 76, 160
Property titles: natural rights position on, 31-37; utilitarian position on, 30
Prostitution, freedom for, 106-7
Protection, 68. See also Police protection
Protectionism, 10
Public schools (public school system), 12, 76-77, 318; in colonial America, 123-24; compulsory attendance at,
119-26, 137; ethnic and linguistic minorities and, 124-25; geographical districts of, 131-33; in
Germany, 122-23; integration of, 131-32; juvenile delinquency and,
137; nineteenth-century conservatism and statism and, 11-12; parental
control of, 132; residential segregation and, 132-33; subsidization of,
133-34; totalitarian nature of compulsory, 130-31; training of labor force and, 136-37;
uniformity versus diversity and, 126-33. See also Education
Public sector, 194-200; abolition of, 200. See
also Government
Publishing industry, 128-29
Quakers, 123
Radical libertarianism of American Revolution, 4-6
Radicalism, 16; classical liberals and, 14, 16 See also Abolitionism
Radicals, 9, 12, 26
Radio: freedom of, 98-103; licensing of, 101-103
Radio Act of 1927, 98
Radosh, Ronald, 274n
Railroads, 75, 204, 205, 208
Railway police, 205
Rand, Ayn, 309
Range lands, public-domain, 251-52
Rape, 105-106
Raskin, Marcus, 61-62
Raw materials, conservation of, 247-54
Read, Herbert, 130
Read, Leonard E., 302-303
Reason, 12, 13
Recession: inflationary (see Inflationary recession) 1958, 172; 1966-1971, 172; Ricardian theory of
business cycle and, 185, 186. See also Depression
Rediscount rate, 180
Redlich, Fritz, 312n
Reformers, 16. See also Gradualism
Religion (see also Church): Chinese, 56
Resources, conservation of, 247-54
Rhode Island, 124
Ricardo, David, 185-87
Rights: air pollution and, 261-62; to education, 134; human, 42-44; natural, 3, 15-16; property
(see Property rights); to self-ownership, 28-32; of Society, 37
Riot, incitement to, 95
River pollution, 75, 255-56
Roads: pricing streets and, 208-14; private, in England and the United States, 213-14
Roberts, M., 246, 248-49
Rogers, A. J., III, 262n
Roman Catholic Church, 62. See also Catholics
Roosevelt, Franklin D., 271-73
Roosevelt, Theodore, 249
Rosenblatt, Daniel, 151-52
Ross, L., 246, 248-49
Rothbard, Murray N., 174n, 185n, 275n, 278n, 314n
Rural Electrification Administration, 159
Russia: World War I and, 284. See also Soviet Union
Russian Jewish immigrants, 152
Sales taxes, 86, 160
SALT agreements, 292, 293
Saving, T. R., 145n
Scarcity of resources, 244
Schafer, Stephen, 88
Schools: Friedman's "voucher plan" and 135; parochial, 125, 126; private, 126, 133, 135, 136; public
(see Public schools)
Schumpeter, Joseph, 51, 244
Science, 12, 13. See also Technology
Scientists, 13. See also Technocrats
Self-ownership, right to, 28-32
Sentencing, indeterminate, 92-93
Sex laws, 105-108
Shaull, Richard, 274n
Shaw-Cardozo ghetto, 167
Silver standard, 176-77
Slander, 95-96
Slavery, 8; abolition of, 15; conscription as, 23-25. See also Involuntary
servitude
Small Business Administration, 166
Smith, Adam, 40
Smith, J. Allen, 66n
Social Darwinism (or evolutionism), 16-17
Socialism, 199, 300; failure of, 316; freedom of the press and, 99; liberals' demands for,
242-44; nineteenth-century, 12-14. See also Communism
Social Security system, 317-18
Social Security tax, 160
Social workers, 146,154
Society, individual and, 37-39
South Vietnam, 273
Soviet Union: disarmament and, 292-94; foreign policy of, 282-89
Spanish-American War, 270, 271, 275
Spencer, Herbert, 16, 17, 130, 315
Spooner, Lysander, 51-52
Stagflation. See Inflationary recession
Stalin, Joseph, 285, 286
State: as aggressor, 45-54; civil obedience to, 54-56; classical liberals and, 2-3, 4,
14-15; corporate, 10; demystification and desanctification of, 25; failure
of statism, 315-16; guilt as used by, 58; inevitability of rule of, 57, 59; intellectuals and, 54-69; intellectuals'
need for, 60; judicial review and, 65-67; heterodox views and, 56-57; limitations on power of, 65-66; majority support
for or acceptance of, 53-56, 65; money supply controlled by, 177-78; oligarchic rule of, 50; origin of, 63-64;
parasitic nature of, 50; as robber group, 51-52; separation of Church and, 3, 5, 11; socialism
and, 13; union of Church and, 55; violence as monopoly of, 47-48; war as health of, 277-82.
See also Government
State-less society, 68
Statism (nineteenth century), 10-12, 14
Stinchcombe, Arthur, 136-37
Stobierski, Rudolph J., 151
Stone, Lawrence, 313
Storefront, The, 157
Stowes, Calvin, 125
Streets: crime in the, 74; police protection of, in private economy, 201-205; pricing roads
and, 208-14; private ownership of, 202-203; rules for use of, 206-208.
See also Traffic congestion
Strikes, 76; laws against, 83-85
Subpoena power, 87
Suburbs, public schools in, 132-33
Subways, 75
Sumner, William Graham, 16, 17, 263-64
Supreme Court, U.S., 48, 65-67
Supreme courts: absence of, in a libertarian society, 226, 227, 229
Synthetic materials, 249
Szasz, Thomas S., 90-92, 318
Taft-Hartley Act, 83, 84
Taft, Robert A., 59-60
Tallack, William, 88
Taxation, 7, 24, 63; abolition or drastic reduction of, 163, 306; classes and,
52-53; classical liberals and, 3; coercion and, 25-26, 47; excessive, 73-74; government
operations and services and, 198; higher education and, 138; as involuntary servitude, 85-86; opportunistic strategy
in, 305-8; the poor and, 159-62; as robbery, 51-52; state and local,
160; welfare state and, 157-62. See also specific types of taxes
Tax-consumers, class of, 53, 54
Tax Foundation, 162
Tax-payers, class of, 52-54
Tax rebellions, 317
Technocrats, 12, 13
Technology: antipollution, 259-60; liberal attack on, 245-47
Telephone service, 75
Television, 76; freedom of, 98-103; pay-, 99-100; violence on, 104
Tennessee Valley Authority, 159
Terborgh, George, 243
Testimony, coerced, 86-87
Thirteenth Amendment, 87
Tibet, 289n
Timber resources, 250
Time preferences, 187-89
Tradition, 11-12; power of, 55-56
Traffic congestion, 74, 197
Traffic rules for private streets, 207-208
Training of labor force, public schools and, 136-37
Transportation crisis, 75
Trenchard, John, 4
Trial: compelled attendance at one's, 87; incarceration before, 88-89; right to speedy, 88-89
Tribune Co. v. Oak Leaves Broadcasting Station, 102
True Whigs, 3, 4
Turnpike network, nineteenth-century, 213-14
Ukraine, 284
Unemployment, 242, 243; lower-class, 153-54; minimum wage laws and,
158
Unions, strikes by, 76. See also Labor unions
United States: breakdown of mystique of the State in, 318-19; crisis situations in 317; disarmament and,
292-94; foreign policy of, 270-77, 291-92; libertarianism as fulfillment
of history of, 320-21; libertarian movement's prospects in, 316-20; war and power of the State
in, 278-82. See also Colonial America; and specific topics
Upper-class culture, welfare and, 151-54
Urban fiscal crisis 74, 317
Urban housing, 76
Urban renewal programs, 158
Utilitarianism, 15-16; conscription and, 80; free-market economy and, 40; libertarian creed and,
26-27; property titles and, 30
Van Buren, Martin, 7, 8
Veale, F. J. P., 266-67
Vickrey, William, 209, 212
Viet Cong 273
Viet Minh, 273
Vietnam War, 74, 272-73, 318
Violence on television, 104
Wage, minimum, 158
Wagner Act (1935), 84
Walters, A. A., 211-12
War, 10, 23; ancient Ireland and, 233; classical liberals and, 9-11,
14, 17-18; guerrilla (revolutionary), 269-70; as health of the State,
277-82; laws of, 266; libertarian position
on, 265-66 See also specific wars
Warner, H. P., 102
War of 1812, 278
War on Poverty, 146, 243
Watergate scandal, 77-78, 318-19
Water pollution. See Pollution, of rivers
Water shortages, 75; in New York City, 197
Weed, Thurlow, 7
Weisbrod, Burton A., 138
Welfare Plan, Mormon Church, 148-51, 154
Welfare state, tax system and, 157-62
Welfare system, 76; conservative criticism of, 154-55; crisis in, 142-48; cultural and moral values and, 151-54;
demoralizing effect of, 154, 156; incentives/disincentives for going on, 144-48; self-help
discouraged by, 156
West, E. G., 129-31
West Germany, 316
Western Europe, origin of the State in, 53- 64
Whig Settlement, 3
Williams, William Appleman, 274, 279
Wilson, Margaret Bush, 245n
Wilson, Woodrow, 271, 272, 289
Wiretapping, 108-109
Wisconsin, University of, 117
Witnesses coerced to testify, 86-87
Wittfogel, Karl, 61
Wolowski, Leon, 37n
Woolridge, William C., 205n, 224
Workers, in nineteenth century, 10
World War I, 271, 279; Russia and, 284
World War II, 280-82, 285-86
Yugoslavia, 286, 288
Young, Owen D., 224
Youth, libertarian movement and, 311
Zoning laws, 158