Leonard Peikoff, much to my surprise, has an excellent podcast on Edward Snowden. He praises Snowden for revealing the vast amount of information the NSA collects about us. The government’s program is in essence totalitarian, and Peikoff aptly draws a parallel with Orwell’s 1984 . To those who say that Snowden gave American secrets to Russia,
By Ron Paul Earlier this month, CIA-operated drones killed as many as 55 people in Yemen in several separate strikes. Although it was claimed that those killed were “militants,” according to press reports at least three civilians were killed and at least five others wounded. That makes at least 92 US drone attacks against Yemen during the Obama
George Reisman speaks on a variety of issues , including economic inequality, income and inheritance taxes, with John O’Donnell on the Power Trading Radio show. George Reisman is economics professor emeritus from Pepperdine University. He received his Ph.D from New York University with Ludwig von Mises as his thesis advisor. He was also a close
The Free Market 32, no. 3 (March 2014) A Libertarian Critique of Intellectual Property by Butler Shaffer Mises Institute, 2014, 62 pgs. Few topics in recent years have aroused as much interest among libertarians as intellectual property. What place, if any, would IP — patents, copyrights, trademarks and the like — have in a libertarian society?
Money: How the Destruction of the Dollar Threatens the Global Economy — and What We Can Do About It , by Steve Forbes and Elizabeth Ames, McGrawHill, 2014 Money is an odd book. Its odd character can be brought out through an analogy. Imagine that someone wrote an eloquent book about price and wage controls. The book showed how attempts to control
Recently the classical liberal legal scholar Richard Epstein criticized “hard-core libertarians.” These extremists want to keep out of “foreign entanglements.” If, as the extremists propose, we act only when there is a direct threat to the United States, “it may be too late.” We should strike immediately against the “forces of death and
A recent column by Steve Forbes on money is a peculiar mixture of insight and error. Forbes rightly says, “The blunt truth is that an active monetary policy has never, ever led to sound, sustainable growth. Without exception it has always done more harm than good, the only variable being the degree of damage rendered...It’s truly amazing that
Today is the sixty-fifth birthday of Hans-Hermann Hoppe. In the Preface to his The Economics and Ethics of Private Property, Hans says: “My largest debt is to Ludwig von Mises and Murray N. Rothbard, the twentieth century’s two greatest—though much neglected—economists and social philosophers.” Hans is the worthy successor of these great thinkers;
I recommend that readers begin with the essay by Murray Rothbard listed here. As Rothbard often stressed, one cannot infer a nation’s foreign policy from the nature of its domestic regime. Communist totalitarianism did not necessitate an aggressive foreign policy; and in the post-World War II period, Rothbard contended, Russian foreign policy was
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