In his exhaustive study of the American Revolution, Conceived in Liberty, Murray Rothbard describes the American revolution as the first “successful war of national liberation” and “a people’s war, waged by the majority of Americans having the courage and the zeal to rise up against constituted ‘legitimate’ government, [and throw] off their ‘sovereign.’” How was this liberation to be achieved?
What is the real purpose of policing?
While previous criminal justice reformers asked how to make it more just or more humane, Michel Foucault (1926–1984) was more concerned that behind the apparent humanization of the prison system hid the guileful calculations of power.
For conservative leaders like Buckley, what really matters is that you support the American imperial warfare state. The stuff about freedom is window dressing.
Friedrich Hayek (1899–1992) was one of the most influential defenders of market liberalism in the twentieth century. His work is best known for demonstrating why central planning fails not merely for incentive reasons, but because of a deeper epistemic constraint: the impossibility of centralizing dispersed knowledge.
Senator Lindsey Graham died seemingly out of the blue over the weekend after a tear in his aorta. He was 71 years old.
The news was shocking, in part because Graham was a very active senator—he was just returning from a trip to Ukraine—and because he was seemingly at the height of his power, having built one of the most influential relationships with President Donald Trump of any politician.
