Rothbard’s 1994 article ‘Nations by Consent: Decomposing the Nation-State’ distinguishes sharply between the state, as a political entity, and the nation, a ‘complex and varying constellation of different forms of communities, languages, ethnic groups, or religions.’ Rothbard develops a theory of natural national boundaries, based on the principle of volunary association and the empirical claim that people tend to associate with particular familial, linguistic, cultural, and religious, groups.&nbs

Speech given to the Gold Investing conference held in Geneva on May 18th 2006

Among the Anglo-Saxons, there is a school of thought called the “Whig view of history,” which sees the course of events as an unrolling tapestry on which is woven a record of a steady, ineluctable progression from barbarity to civilization.

A Perspective on Post New Economy Business Cycle Behavior by Joseph Calandro (University of Connecticut)

You rarely learn anything from TV except for its incredible lack of reality and its delight in delivering statist messages.

I’m pleased to see that the Mises Institute is carrying The Discovery of Freedom. Rose Wilder Lane (Daughter of Laura Ingalls Wilder) was one of the past century’s most ardent proponents of liberty. In particular, The Discovery of Freedom: Man’s Struggle Against Authority (1943) was a seminal work on freedom.

Vedran Vuk says that changing one law can prevent the city’s continued decline and fall of New Orleans. The edict that must be removed is the monopoly on gambling held by Harrah’s casino.

Here is a test case to separate decentralist libertarians, who believe that divided sovereignty is the best long-run protection for liberty, from the centralist libertarians, who mistakenly believe that a distant government that is not friend of liberty should be empowered to defend liberty and property rights.

[This article is excerpted from chapter 14 of Money, Method, and the Market Process, edited by Richard M. Ebeling. It was originally published in Modern Age (Spring 1961).]