Anarchy

Professor Jesús Huerta de Soto gives his acceptance speech of Argentina’s Order of May for Merit Award this year in Buenos Aires, Argentina.

One of the objections against anarcho-capitalism is that without government supervision, businesses will form cartels. However, free markets have their own ways of undermining these arrangements.

A common objection to anarcho-capitalism is that only the state can offer workable defense services to people through police and the armed forces, as private defense agencies would have an incentive to be at constant war. This objection, however, is not valid.

The recent murder of a young woman on the Charlotte, North Carolina light rail highlights the casual attitudes that progressives in government have toward violent crime. This will not change any time soon.

Privatization is often explained as something the state permits. However, true privatization rejects state coercion in all things, including money.

Anarcho-capitalism isn’t a dystopian version of every man for himself. It is rooted in community, private institutions, and families.

Philosopher Elizabeth Anscombe questioned the legitimacy of the state, but left open a possible justification for its existence. Dr. David Gordon examines Anscombe’s argument and finds it interesting but wanting.

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.

In normal human affairs, actions like lying, theft, and murder are considered to be immoral and anti-social. However, people are quick to accept those same behaviors from government agents and they will even defend such actions as “necessary” for the “good of society.”

Krzysztof Turowski reviews Swolinski and Tomasi's The Individualists: Reactionaries, and the Struggle for the Soul of Libertarianism, which provides an intellectual history of libertarianism that was badly needed.