Liberalism was the most popular and influential ideology during the nineteenth and early twentieth century. So, every new socialist and authoritarian movement defined itself as “liberal” to capitalize on liberalism’s popularity and importance. This Audio Mises Wire is generously sponsored by Christopher Condon. Narrated by Millian Quinteros.
The enemies of the system of free enterprise paid liberalism an unintended compliment when they applied the name “liberal” to their own creed, historically the opposite of what liberalism stood for from the start. This Audio Mises Wire is generously sponsored by Christopher Condon. Narrated by Millian Quinteros. Original Article: “ The “Old” vs.
Historical revisionism is the process of unmasking government excuses for war and war-making, writes Ralph Raico. This audio Mises Daily is narrated by Robert Hale.
On February 20, 2013, David Gordon, Lew Rockwell, and Joe Salerno spoke extensively with the foremost historian of classical liberalism, Ralph Raico, about his life and career, including insights into the views and personalities of Ayn Rand, F.A. Hayek, and Murray Rothbard. Raico grew up in the Bronx, but in contrast with the leftist views common
Our last show for 2016 is bittersweet, featuring a lecture by our great friend and Senior Fellow Ralph Raico. Dr. Raico, who died earlier this month, was an intellectual giant known for his brilliant — and often revisionist — understanding of history. Speaking at Mises University in 2009, Dr. Raico delivered a witty and razor-sharp exposition of
[This article appears online for the first time and is reprinted from The Alternative: An American Spectator (February 1975), where it appeared under the title “Ludwig von Mises.”] It is said that a number of years ago, when Bill Buckley was at the beginning of his career of college-speaking, he once wrote two names on the blackboard and thereby
The Free Market 15, no. 4 (April 1997) It is the widespread view in academia that John Maynard Keynes was a model classical liberal in the tradition of Locke, Jefferson, and Tocqueville. Like these men, it is commonly held, Keynes was a sincere, indeed, exemplary, believer in the free society. If he differed from the classical liberals in some
The question of immigration has become acute in virtually all Western nations, including the United States. Here, as elsewhere, leaders of movements to limit immigration, especially from the “Third World,” often combine this with uninformed attacks on the free market, particularly on international free trade. But there is no necessary connection
No one could have admired and respected Ludwig von Mises more than did Murray Rothbard, who dedicated his magn um opus in economic theory, Man, Economy, and State , to his great mentor. Yet Rothbard did not shy away from criticizing Mises when he believed such criticism to be called for. Thus, in The Ethics of Liberty , Rothbard subjects Mises’s
I attended Roger Garrison’s lecture on the Austrian theory of the business cycle at the LSE. The auditorium was packed, probably 250-300 in the audience. To my mind, Roger’s presentation was nothing short of brilliant. Poised, witty, yet unremitting in his calm reasoning, he showed how this “oddball,” out of the mainstream theory is by far
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