The Conservative has long been marked, whether he knows it or not, by long-run pessimism: by the belief that the long-run trend, and therefore Time itself, is against him, and hence the inevitable trend runs toward left-wing statism at home and Communism abroad. It is this long-run despair that accounts for the Conservative’s rather bizarre short-run optimism; for since the long-run is given up as hopeless, the Conservative feels that his only hope of success rests in the current moment.
Murray N. Rothbard made major contributions to economics, history, political philosophy, and legal theory. He combined Austrian economics with a fervent commitment to individual liberty.
In the deepest sense, the American Revolution was a conscious majority revolution on behalf of libertarianism and against power.
In the deepest sense, the American Revolution was a conscious majority revolution on behalf of libertarianism and against power.
It is important to change our political culture, which treats "democracy," or the "right" to vote, as the supreme political good.
Left and Right, Spring 1965, pp. 4-22.
