Josiah Warren: The First American Anarchist
“Peace, harmony, ease, security, happiness, will be found only in Individuality.”
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Francis Hutcheson: Teacher of Adam Smith
Hutcheson brought to Scottish philosophy a solid belief in natural rights and in the beneficence of nature.
How Marshall Field Succeeded
This world-renowned merchant seeks no fame for his business achievements. Yet there is no story more full of encouragement and inspiration for youth.
I Watch Westerns
The characters are rugged individuals — ingenious in their ability to fend for themselves, under all manner of adverse conditions — and asking for help from nobody.
Daniel Bernoulli and the Founding of Mathematical Economics
The use of mathematics necessarily leads the economist to distort reality by making the theory convenient for mathematical symbolism and manipulation. Mathematics takes over, and the reality of human action loses out.
How Thomas Edison Succeeded
The trouble lies in the fact that people do not have an object — one thing to which they stick, letting all else go.
How Thomas Edison Succeeded
The trouble lies in the fact that people do not have an object — one thing to which they stick, letting all else go. Success is the product of the severest kind of mental and physical application.
Does Gandhi Deserve a Place in the Libertarian Tradition?
If you abjure all violence, you must abjure the state. Thus, while not all libertarians are pacifists, all pacifists are libertarians, whether they realize it or not (and, admittedly, a great many pacifists have not realized it). Gandhi, it appears, did realize it.
Rothbard’s Case for a Libertarian Institution
Fifty years ago, Rothbard saw the need for institutions to support scholarship, writing, publishing, and the exchange of ideas in the libertarian tradition. Otherwise, young people will turn to political activism and find themselves drifting left and right rather than staying on the path toward liberty.
The Story of Roy A. Childs Jr. (1949–1992)
Childs was mightily impressed by what he read inside the covers of Rothbard’s books and by what he heard from Rothbard himself in that famous living room. And he was determined to pass his enlightenment along to the students of Objectivism.
