If you haven’t already, be sure to read Ben O’Neill’s series of Mises Daily articles on the NSA. Part 1: Edward Snowden, the NSA, and the US Courts Part 2: FISA, the NSA, and America’s Secret Court System Part 3: How the NSA Made Your Legal Defense Illegal Part 4: The NSA’s System of Secret
by Kirkpatrick Sale [ LewRockwell.com, March 25, 2014 ] A few days ago, my partner, turning from something about Afghanistan on the television news, said to me, “It seems there’s been a war going on as long as we’ve been alive.” And we’re well into our 70s. But think about it: she’s almost right. This country has been at war, or at least has
by David Stockman From David Stockman’s Contra Corner . Remarks to the Committee For The Republic, Washington DC, February 2014 (Part 6 in a 6-Part Series) Go to Part 1. After America’s earlier wars there occurred a swift and near total demobilization: the Union Army of 2 million had been reduced to 24,000 within months of Appomattox, and the 3
MP3 version. Tom Woods talks to Mises Institute Associated Scholar Gerard Casey of University College, Dublin, about the ideas in his book Libertarian Anarchy .
Joseph Salerno discusses Minsky with the BBC. Audio here. From the BBC site: American economist Hyman Minsky died in 1996, but his theories offer one of the most compelling explanations of the 2008 financial crisis. His key idea is simple enough to be a t-shirt slogan: “Stability is destabilising”. But TUC senior economist Duncan Weldon argues
In spite of widespread coverage by the UK Guardian , NBC , and The Atlantic , some readers have suggested that the vote on secession in Venice did not actually happen. So, to clear things up, I contacted Prof. Paolo Bernardini, a friend of the Mises Institute, a local supporter of the vote , and professor of European history at the University of
Richard Cobden, the great libertarian of the 19th century, man of peace, leader of the Anti-Corn Law League, and anti-imperialist, was once considered in line to be Prime Minister. Yet, like so many libertarians after him, he was destroyed for his opposition to nationalism and war. In Cobden’s case, his opposition to the Crimean War sent his
By Nathan Nicolaisen Libertarians often argue over the pragmatism of intellectual property at the expense of the ethical aspect of restricting knowledge by force . The question posed in Butler Shaffer’s A Libertarian Critique of Intellectual Property is, “by what reasoning can the state create and enforce such interests upon persons who have not
Former Mises Fellow Matt McCaffrey (blog archive here ) has accepted a position as Assistant Professor of Entrepreneurship at the University of Manchester (which, by the way, houses a collection of the letters of Richard
Robert Higgs discusses his book ‘Crisis and Leviathan: Critical Episodes in the Growth of American Government’. Purchase online.
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