Political Theory

The existence of a libertarian majority among the American Revolutionaries and in 19th-century England demonstrates that the feat is not impossible.

Murray Rothbard discusses a turning point in American ideological history, through events in his own life:

We were now not only looking for an isolationist movement; we were looking for an anti-imperialist movement, a movement that zeroed in on the American Empire as the great threat to the peace…

Economists of the Austrian School of economics define inflation differently than much of the mainstream of the economics profession, writes By Gary

Paul Gottfried's excellent book lends strong support to a controversial claim of Murray Rothbard's. In his The Betrayal of the American Right , Rothbard argued that the

This is going to be an unfair review — I hope readers will not say to themselves, "as usual." Brian Doherty has done a remarkable amount of research for his book, which endeavors to present a comprehensive history of American libertarianism.

Has John Gray come back? Once a classical liberal admired by Murray Rothbard, Gray many years ago abandoned the defense of the free market. Herbert Spencer, he now claimed, was a precursor of fascism; 

Paul Gottfried’s excellent book lends strong support to a controversial claim of Murray Rothbard’s.

As Gottfried shows, Buckley has often played a malign role in purging from conservatism those not in accord with the values he at the time professes. He would not allow Old Rightists such as John T. Flynn access to his magazine to argue against the Cold War statism it was the principal aim of National Review to advance.

We all assumed that there were two poles: a 'left' pole of Communism, socialism, and total government; and a 'right' pole of libertarianism and individualist anarchism.