The man who would weaken the state must begin, not at the tax office, but at its ministry of opinion. Rothbard shows in his classic essay, The Anatomy of the State, that a predatory ruling apparatus cannot endure by force alone; it requires a caste of “court intellectuals” to wrap plunder in a halo of necessity, science, and morality.

I can’t help but feel very sorry for the Venezuelan people.

Imagine living under a brutal and corrupt illegitimately-elected dictatorship, a national-security state form of government, and a full socialist economic system.

Oh, but unfortunately, that’s not all. Imagine also having to live in a country in which the most powerful military empire in world history is also waging war against the citizenry.

“The woke Left may be the greatest evil of all because I don’t see how they’re going to be defeated, certainly not in my lifetime [and] maybe in the lifetime of my grandchildren,” claims political theorist and intellectual historian Paul Gottfried.

[This article is adapted from Chapter 15 of The Global Currency Plot.] 

The danger is obvious that the social revolution would change the tangible and visible ruling class of today, openly recognized as such, into a secret demagogic oligarchy operating under the guise of equality.
– ROBERT MICHELS

The National Association of Realtors today released its November report on home sales. According to the report, home sales inched up for the month, rising from historic lows during a year of falling home prices and frustrated sellers quitting the market.

There is a deadly cancer that is eating away at Western society—welfare. It is supported by a web of lies that are so pervasive that no one dare question them. Two of the most ingrained are:

One of the dominant superstitions of our time is that truth is relative and not absolute. As the philosopher Thomas Nagel says in The Last Word (Oxford University Press, 1997),