He is pretty old in 1969 but it is wonderful to hear his voice and he still seems sharp as a tack. Thank you to Bettina Bien Greaves for this rare tape. Listen.
Murray Rothbard, writing in the 1950s under the name “Aubrey Herbert,” offers a profound reflection on a core dilemma of libertarianism: whether the state can be justified at all.
Brian Doherty writes that the Ron Paul movement is the most exciting development in libertarian politics in a century, or maybe ever.
According to the Mises.org Freedom Calendar, Marcus Tullius Cicero was born 2,115 years ago yesterday. (According to Wikipedia, it was 2,114 years ago.)
Gary Galles wrote,
In my posts Owning Thoughts and Labor and Thoughts on Intellectual Property, Scarcity, Labor-ownership, Metaphors, and Lockean Homesteading, I discuss several problems with over- or mis-use of various metaphors in political theorizing, especially the idea that we “own” our labor and “therefore” come to own things we “mix our labor with”; the idea that we own things we “
David Frum — former Bush speechwriter, ambitious author, American Public Radio commentator, and all-around guru — has been lecturing Ron Paul supporters about the gold standard.
Hulsmann has written a 1143 page book chock full facts and insights, yet we’re dealing with Mises here, a man who probed the fundamentals of his discipline like few before or since. So I feel less awkward pointing to a few things in Mises’ book on money that in a longer book (!) might have been worth attending to.
