Calvin Coolidge, on spending and taxation, was quite Rothbardian well before Rothbard. According to Amity Shlaes, “Coolidge didn’t favor tax cuts as a means to increase revenue or to buy off Democrats. He favored them because they took government, the people’s servant, out of the way of the people.”
A transcription of a wide-ranging lecture, full of insight as well as humor, by the great Austrian economist and social theorist Hans-Hermann Hoppe, discussing the state, anarchy, democracy, monarchy, crime, security, and more. Delivered at the 2009 Mises University.
The story of pork’s decline involves the usual suspects: special interest lobbying arms and the federal government’s 30+ years of war on dietary fat.
What is one to make of the president's diminishment of the causal connection between the productivity of individuals and the success of their pursuits?
The word <em>liberal</em> has clear and pertinent etymological roots grounded in the ideal of individual liberty.
Nicholas Wolterstorff assails a vastly influential school of thought in a way that libertarians will find useful.
What is one to make of President Obama’s celebration of the government’s role in the personal pursuits of citizens and his diminishment of the causal connection between the productivity of individuals and the success of their pursuits?
Office-seeking is a dead-end road. Principled promotion of ideological change is the way forward.
Does our attitude toward elections prove that we are politically ignorant, shiftless, irresponsible, and get no better government than we deserve?
The changes wrought in America during the First World War were so profound that one scholar has referred to "the Wilsonian Revolution in government."
