Politics operates according to principles that would horrify us if we observed them in our private lives, and would get us arrested if we lived by them. The state can steal and call it taxation, kill and call it war, writes Lew Rockwell . This audio Mises Daily is narrated by Ben
Featuring remarks by Jeff Deist, Llewlellyn H. Rockwell, Jr. [1:55], Thomas E. Woods, Jr. [4:27], Judge Andrew P. Napolitano [8:47], and Dr. Ron Paul [20:32]. Recorded in Lake Jackson, Texas, on Saturday, 15 August
Recorded at the Mises Circle in Dallas-Fort Worth on 3 October 2015. Includes an introduction by Jeff Deist. Special thanks to Klaas and Anastasia Talsma for making this event possible.
Speaker panel featuring Lew Rockwell, Tom Woods, and Jeff Deist. Recorded at the Mises Circle in Dallas-Fort Worth on 3 October 2015. Special thanks to Klaas and Anastasia Talsma for making this event
Getting Libertarianism Right . By Hans-Hermann Hoppe. Mises Institute, 2018. 126 pages. Introduction by Sean Gabb. The title of Hans Hoppe’s wonderful new book has a double meaning. We need to get libertarianism right — to understand libertarianism correctly. How can we do this? By realizing that if we want a libertarian society, we need to
The Free Market 13, no. 12 (December 1995) If it had the will, Congress could kill the redistributionist monster, the Welfare State, that’s consumed at least $5 trillion in wealth since the Great Society. How? Cut anywhere and everywhere, abolish whole agencies, and return the $350 billion saved from next year’s spending to the taxpayers in the
The Free Market 14, no. 6 (June 1996) “Every great statesman must necessarily fail,” wrote Andrew Lytle in a moving tribute to John C. Calhoun. The reason: the statesman is driven by high ideals like freedom, self-government, justice, and constitutionalism, which will never be perfectly realized. Yet even in failure, the statesman preserves
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