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Prohibition and the New Deal are alike in their professed intention. Both assumed the guise of disinterested benevolence towards the body politic. We are judged incapable of setting up an adequate social defense against vicious rum-sellers and malefactors of great wealth, writes Albert Jay Nock (1870–1945). This audio Mises Daily is narrated by
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The person of intelligence tends to “see things as they are,” never permits his view of them to be directed by convention, by the hope of advantage, or by an irrational and arbitrary authoritarianism. His consciousness is uncontrolled by prejudice, prepossession, or formula, writes Albert Jay Nock (1870–1945). This audio Mises Daily is narrated by
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Nock looks through the fantasy of the state as the great protector and summarizes the essentials of politics, and finds it is no friend of the individual. Narrated by Jock Coats.
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[This is Albert Jay Nock’s (1870–1945) introduction to Spencer’s forgotten 1884 classic, The Man versus the State .] In 1851 Herbert Spencer published a treatise called Social Statics; or, The Conditions Essential to Human Happiness Specified. Among other specifications, this work established and made clear the fundamental principle that society
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[This essay first appeared in the American Mercury in March 1939.] As well as I can judge, the general attitude of Americans who are at all interested in foreign affairs is one of astonishment, coupled with distaste, displeasure, or horror, according to the individual observer’s capacity for emotional excitement. Perhaps I ought to shade this
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Introduction Unhappiness and Enervation The State’s Business Service and Servitude The New Absolutism Our Enemy, The State [This article originally appeared in Scribner’s in March 1935; it is now the introduction to Our Enemy, The State .] For almost a full century before the Revolution of 1776, the classic enumeration of human rights was “life,
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[A review of George Bernard Shaw, Everybody’s Political What’s What? (New York: Dodd, Mead & Co., 1944), Economic Council Review of Books , Volume II, no. 6, February 1945, published in New York by the National Economic Council] There is nowadays a tendency to regard Mr. George Bernard Shaw as somewhat a back number; that is, as a person who has
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The Majesty of the Law When I was seven years old, playing in front of our house on the outskirts of Brooklyn one morning, a policeman stopped and chatted with me for a few moments. He was a kindly man, of a Scandinavian blonde type with pleasant blue eyes, and I took to him at once. He sealed our acquaintance permanently by telling me a story
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Introduction: Education vs Training Dissatisfaction with American “Education” Tinkering with the Mechanics of Education The Educational Theory of Equality and Democracy The Literate Citizen Classical Education Training, Diluted Science, and Big Numbers Drugstore Education The Great Tradition Sound Theory and a Reasonable Precision in Nomenclature
