Why the MSM Hates Judy Shelton
Why Marxist Organizations Like BLM Seek to Dismantle the “Western Nuclear Family”
New Unemployment Increased to 1.4 Million Last Week as Recovery Falters
GDP, Free Trade, and Prosperity
Albert Jay Nock, Radical
[Reprinted from Fragments, Spring 1995.]
The Founding Fathers’ Coup d’État
[Adapted from chapter 5 of Our Enemy, the State.]
Mises the Sunny Pessimist
Ludwig von Mises was called several names and epithets in his life, by his admirers and enemies alike. His friends and colleagues dubbed him the “Last Knight of Liberalism,” while his critics called him intransigent, fanatic, and even less flattering epithets.
Just recently I came across another nickname the great Austrian had in the 1920s and 30s: the sunny pessimist. Writing to Bettina Greaves in 1974, Karl Menger, the son of the famous economist, recounts how this came about:
