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When the state spends more money than it receives in taxes — a fact indelibly written into the bond — it is deliberately committing an act of bankr

Reclaiming the Mainstream was Joan's book that placed the origins of the American feminist movement in the abolitionist movement of the 19th century...

Childs was mightily impressed by what he read inside the covers of Rothbard's books and by what he heard from Rothbard himself in that famous living room. And he was determined to pass his enlightenment along to the students of Objectivism.

The famous physiocratic tenet that only land is productive must be considered bizarre and absurd.

A superficial observer of present-day ideologies could easily fail to recognize the prevailing bigotry of the molders of public opinion and the mac

Recorded on 4 December 2010 in Rochester, New York.

Recorded on 4 December 2010 in Rochester, New York.

Recorded on 4 December 2010 in Rochester, New York.

In every country the socialists have become office seekers, aiming to get hold of the reins of government by parliamentary methods, and for no othe

The 17th-century Dutch Protestant Hugo Grotius, deeply influenced by the late Spanish Scholastics, developed a theory of natural laws that he boldl

In our times, a major reason, and perhaps the major reason, for the phenomenal progress of the ideas of liberty is the work of the Mises Institute.

It is certainly true that our age is full of conflicts which generate war.

Prohibition and the New Deal are alike in their professed intention. Both assumed the guise of disinterested benevolence towards the body politic.

Joan Kennedy Taylor first became involved in the libertarian movement in the early 1960s, when she was a student at the Nathaniel Branden Institute in New York City. As a student of Objectivism, she espoused the political views of Ayn Rand.

The first self-conscious school of economic thought developed in France shortly after the publication of Cantillon’s Essai.

The envy-driven masses do not care a whit for what the demagogues call the “bourgeois” concern for freedom of conscience, of thought, o

You have only a few years to live and cannot hope to remake society in so short a time. Nobody now living will see a free society in America. But, in fighting for it, one can have a lot of fun. Consider the effort as a legacy to your great-grandchildren.

The honor of being called the “father of modern economics” belongs not to its usual recipient, Adam Smith, but to a gallicized Irish me

If we don't seek to use the vote to steer American society away from the direction in which it has been moving for all these many decades, what do we do instead? For Chodorov, that was a question very easily answered: we put our efforts into education.

Julian Assange, through WikiLeaks, has made available to society a vast collection of information that undermines the state’s legitimacy.