Political Theory

"If this mania increases we shall slide into a social order under which everyone has one hand in the pocket of another."

In the 1940s and early ‘50s, a school of establishment historians existed who made it their business to extol the virtues of the “Great

The fact is that, exactly as Mark Lilla fears, when people distrust authority in a generalized way and start thinking for themselves, often without much relevant information to guide them, they'll make many decisions that they'll later regret. But whose decisions are they to make?

Rothbard was a man of great achievement and immense scholarship, an indefatigable worker, and the most significant anarchist writer then living — i

From An Austrian Perspective on the History of Economic Thought, Volume I. Pages 385-412 in the text. Narrated by Jeff Riggenbach.

From An Austrian Perspective on the History of Economic Thought, Volume I. Pages 194-209 in the text. Narrated by Jeff Riggenbach

From An Austrian Perspective on the History of Economic Thought, Volume I. Pages 179-193 in the text. Narrated by Jeff Riggenbach

The supporters of socialized healthcare dream that everything will remain the same, except that someone else will pay the bill.

"Some may wonder why it took Hess 20 years to notice all this, why it took a man this obviously intelligent so long to grasp that the Republicans were pretty much the same as the New Deal Democrats he opposed, but with window dressing."

When government assigns positive rights to others, some of us will be forced to pay for it. No right to healthcare is a legitimate right.