Paul Gottfried

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Book Review: Theoria Generalis: Das Wesen des Politischen

08/26/2025 Quarterly Journal of Austrian Economics Paul Gottfried

Paul Gottfried reviews Ulrich Hintze's Theoria Generalis: Das Wesen des Politischen. Hintze argues that true political authority requires individual freedom, and he criticizes modern democracy for devolving into bureaucratic predation.

Paul Gottfried on the Virginia Election

11/04/2021 Power & Market Paul Gottfried

McAuliffe could not dissociate himself entirely from national politics because he was a national Democratic figure closely allied to the Clintons for decade

A David Gordon Anthology

12/22/2017 Mises Wire Paul Gottfried

David is one of the very few reviewers whose writings I can read with profit years after they were first printed.

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War and Democracy

01/11/2016 Paul Gottfried

War and Democracy presents a selection of essays and reviews by Paul Gottfried written from 1975 to the present. They cover a variety of topics, both historical and contemporary, ranging from Oswald Spengler and the Frankfurt School to the

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