Tableau of Mischief?
One reason I so loved Murray Rothbard was his ability to pick out that which was blindly hailed by the mainstream, critically examine it, and produce unique and honest insight as to the real nature of such.
Book Announcement: David Lipscomb’s “Civil Government”
I am pleased to announce that David Lipscomb’s book Civil Government: Its Origin, Mission, and Destiny, and the Christian’s Relation to It has now been reprinted as No. 117 of my Classic Reprints series. Here is a brief description:
More, More, More Money
You can get a sense from this article on CNN what Homeland Security has come down to: shoveling hundreds of millions of dollars to state and local governments, based on the political influence of politicians that represent them and the effectiveness of their lobbyists. Millions and millions everywhere but still people complain that it’s not enough. We are only one more disaster from the current levels of spending being increased 10 or 20 times, with no increase in effectiveness.
Martin Van Buren: The American Gladstone
[This article is excerpted from Chapter 6 of Reassessing the Presidency: The Rise of the Executive State and the Decline of Freedom, edited by John V. Denson.]
Drug Patents and Welfare
The Philosophical Origins of Austrian Economics
So Economics Isn’t Enough, Huh?
Robert Murphy, as an Austrian economist, welcomes just about any criticism of the neoclassical mainstream. However, some of the proponents of the newfangled ways often overstep when they criticize “flaws” with basic economic principles.
The Trouble With Axelrod: The Prisoners’ Utility Cannot be Measured or Compared
Mark Crovelli says that it is presumptuous of Axelrod to prescribe all sorts of ways to mitigate the cooperative problems associated with the Prisoner’s Dilemma — when neither he, nor anyone else, knows whether there are such dilemmas.
The Death Wish of the Anarcho-Communists
Listen to the Audio Mises Wire version of this article.
[This article first appeared in the Libertarian Forum, January 1, 1970.]
Now that the New Left has abandoned its earlier loose, flexible non-ideological stance, two ideologies have been adopted as guiding theoretical positions by New Leftists: Marxism-Stalinism, and anarcho-communism.
Small town tyranny
The Ragbrai is an annual bike ride across Iowa. One of the designated stops happens to be the Coralville/Iowa City area, where I live.
In the mail today was a publication issued by the city of Coralville announcing the rules that would be in effect for the race. One of the rules has to do with outdoor entertainment:
