To Serve and Protect — the State
Do the police exist to protect you? The clear answer is no.
The Inventor of the Digital Age
Michael Hart’s life demonstrates the difference that one person’s thinking can bring about in the shape of the real world.
The Transformation of the American Party System
If Bryan represented the “people” versus the “interests,” why did Bryan lose and lose soundly, not once but three times?
Individualism and the Industrial Revolution
[Marxism Unmasked (2006)]
Liberals stressed the importance of the individual. The 19th-century liberals already considered the development of the individual the most important thing. “Individual and individualism” was the progressive and liberal slogan. Reactionaries had already attacked this position at the beginning of the 19th century.
Trade Creates Wealth
Every day, before waking, I use a number of items my hands could not create in a thousand lifetimes.
Law without the State
Without question, the legal system is the one facet of society that supposedly requires state provision.1 Even such champions of laissez-faire as Milton Friedman and Ludwig von Mises believed a government must exist to protect private property and define the “rules of the game.”
Who Are the Monopolists?
Envy, the State, and My Fellow Man
The state’s investigation into Armstrong’s supposed use of performance-enhancing drugs has nothing to do with righting a wrong.
Leonard Read on Copyright and the Role of Ideas
One of the most influential figures behind the modern libertarian movement was Leonard Read, founder of the Foundation for Economic Education. (I discuss Read’s role in the origin of modern libertarianism (and in adoption of the term “libertarian”) in my post The Origin of “Libertarianism”.) I read a great deal of his books 20-30 years ago, as well many of his pieces in The Freeman.
It’s Not about Consumption!
The economy remains moribund, but not because consumption spending has failed to recover.
