Profiles

An economics that forsakes the dignity of the human person and his capacity for creativity and aesthetics does so at its own peril and disgrace.

Privatizing garbage collection isn't exactly a tough nut to crack from the perspective of entrepreneurs and economic theory. But that doesn't stop government from mandating a government monopoly on trash collection in many places...

Designed to redress the wrongs of the major injustice of slavery, the Fourteenth Amendment is now used by the federal courts to micromanage nearly every aspect of modern life. Strangely, many libertarians continue to support the amendment in spite of this.

Session on The State, Class and Property. Recorded March 9, 2012, at the Ludwig von Mises Institute in Auburn, Alabama. [17:58]

We're better off judging Emerson on the basis of his words, which could be called libertarian.