Climate Change and the Choice of Life

It is one thing to be concerned about the possible impact of the sum of many tiny human actions on the climate of the planet on which we find ourselves, for this is entirely consistent with choosing life. It is quite another thing to presume that we are doomed unless, whatever we are doing, we stop doing it right now. As Mises wrote: “Some philosophies … look upon life as an absolute evil full of pain, suffering, and anguish, and apodictically deny that any purposeful human effort can render it tolerable.”

Should you take Michelle Obama’s Career Advice?

There’s not a lot of money in Zanesville. Nearly a quarter of the Ohio town’s population, 22.4 percent, is living below the poverty line, including 32.3 percent of those under 18 years of age. That’s nearly double the national poverty rate, officially reported by the Census Bureau last August as 12.3 percent overall, nationwide, and 17.4 percent for those under 18. Still, Michelle Obama stopped by the other day during a campaign visit and warned the locals to not go for the big money.

Murphy Battles Anti-Market Economics and Ethics

Robert Murphy’s admirable book is much more than a conventional defense of capitalism. Murphy includes standard material, e.g., why price controls, minimum wage legislation, and rent control do not work. Though it was once controversial to point to the inadequacies of these measures, now even mainstream textbooks hasten to condemn them. Murphy goes far beyond this. He takes on the most difficult and controversial challenges to the free market, and offers convincing responses to them. FULL ARTICLE

The Difference between a Liberal and a Radical

Albert Jay Nock, writing in 1920, spells out the difference between a Nation-style liberal and a Freeman-style radical. “The liberal believes that the State is essentially social and is all for improving it by political methods so that it may function accordingly to what he believes to be its original intention.... The radical, on the other hand, believes that the State is fundamentally antisocial and is all for improving it off the face of the earth”
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