The Libertarian Heritage: The American Revolution and Classical Liberalism
The libertarian creed, writes Murray Rothbard, emerged from the "classical liberal" movements of the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries in the Western world.
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Athens and the US: The Decline and Fall
The government of Athens was not as wise, efficient, or free as Pericles boasted, writes Eric Phillips.
Let Bush Rule (His Fans)
Let's say that we put our politics on the market model. Everyone who is still nuts for Bush should be permitted to be ruled by him completely and without question.
Environmental Preservation: A Matter of Property
Environmentalists, it seems, have their own version of the Evenly Rotating Economy (ERE), writes Andrew Packer.
Will the TSA Be Always With Us?
It's hard to know which Bush policies will most immortalize this administration. But Lew Rockwell votes for Bush's disastrous decision to nationalize airline security.
The War on Immigration Will Fail
There exists a market demand for low-skilled cheap labor, writes Wade Mitchell. This triumph of the market is not in itself a problem.
Dental Socialism in Britain: Tragedy and Farce
Many in Britain, writes Lew Rockwell, no longer have any choice: they have to pull out their own teeth.
How Prosperity Generates Poverty
In a peculiar way, writes Paul Trescott, the underclass are subsidized by our prosperous society.
To Rule Is To Destroy
Think of the contest between power and market (in Rothbard's phrase) as two parallel foot races on a track that never ends, writes Lew Rockwell.
The Gas-Tax Hustle
Why, oh why, did Congress decline to give us a bit more liberty, aside from the obvious fact that they like the revenue and power? Well, we can't go too much aside after all: they like the revenue and power. From their point of view, why give it up?
