Philosophy and Methodology

Obey or die. Isn't this the philosophy of all government in all times and all places?

History is littered with monetary managers who believed they were in total control — until the disaster hit.

Social justice actually refers to an intention to use force to acquire one's desires. Not to earn desirable goods by rational thought and action, production and voluntary exchange, but to go in there and forcibly take goods from those who can supply them!

Nock was perhaps the finest stylist in 20th-century American literature, writes Frank Chodorov (1887–1966).

Hutcheson, Hume, and Smith, while scarcely orthodox Calvinists, were dedicated Presbyterians according to their own lights, writes Murray N.

The Mises Circle in Naples, Florida. Recorded 26 February 2011.

Man the producer must have freedom, while man the predator puts limitations on freedom, writes Frank Chodorov (1887–1966).

The book is not about the need to cut the budget. Well, sure, the budget would be low to nonexistent if people adopted the views I defend here. But my aim is far more ambitious than that. I am inviting the reader, step by step, to rethink the view of government and society he has imbibed since childhood. A tall order, to be sure. But I'm throwing everything I've got at it.

The characters are rugged individuals — ingenious in their ability to fend for themselves, under all manner of adverse conditions — and asking for