He spoke with a very thick Sicilian accent. “Ah, young fellow,” he said to Vito. “People tell me you’re rich. You and your two friends. But don’t you think you’ve treated me a little shabbily? After all, this is my neighborhood and you should let me wet my beak”

--From The Godfather, Don Fanucci tries to shake down Vito Corleone

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.