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"As long as the easy, attractive, superficial philosophy of Statism remains in control of the citizen's mind, no beneficent social change can be effected, whether by revolution or by any other means."...

Jeffrey Tucker interviews Mark Thornton, senior fellow at the Ludwig von Mises Institute, and editor of the new translation of Richard Cantillon&#8

Carried through consistently, the right of property would entitle the proprietor to all the advantages that the good’s employment may generat

Rothbard’s vast published output does not exhaust his thinking and writing.

English justifications of absolutism stressed time and again that the subjects must obey the king in any and all circumstances, whether or not the

From Theory and History Part Three, “Epistemological Problems of History”. Narrated by John Pruden.

There is no such thing as interests independent of ideas, preceding them temporally and logically.

From Theory and History Part Three, “Epistemological Problems of History”. Narrated by John Pruden.

From Theory and History Part Four, “The Course of History”. Narrated by John Pruden.

From Theory and History Part Three, “Epistemological Problems of History”. Narrated by John Pruden.

From Theory and History Part Three, “Epistemological Problems of History”. Narrated by John Pruden.

From Theory and History Part Four, “The Course of History”. Narrated by John Pruden.

From Theory and History Part Three, “Epistemological Problems of History”. Narrated by John Pruden.

Milgram reflected on Etienne de La Boetie's key insight about the politics of authority, the will to bondage, and the eager embrace of voluntary servitude. He devised an ingenious test for their influence on the ordinary individual...

These documents are a joyful alternative career of Rothbard’s writings and research, and as such inherently one of the most valuable (and mos

Critics condemn economic theory for disregarding the role that power plays in real life.

Marx and Engels, two men of unquestionable bourgeois background, hatched the class ideology of the proletarian class.

Fahrenheit 451 acknowledges that powerful impulses toward mindless conformity and suppression of deviation exist in the population itself — that, on a deep level, many, many people want to be "protected" by the state from the risk of being offended and from the necessity of thinking...

It is good luck for the laborer if market conditions are such that a kind of work he is able to perform is lavishly remunerated; it is chance, not

Narrated by Matt Pritchard.