Biographies

This year marks the 250th birthday of Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, the greatest of all German writers and poets and one of the giants of world literature. In his political outlook, he was also a thorough-going classical liberal, arguing that free trade and free cultural exchange are the keys to authentic national and international integration. He argued and fought against the expansion, centralization, and unification of government on grounds that these trends can only hinder prosperity and true cultural development

Why the achievements of Ludwig von Mises have been unjustly overlooked by academia. (An essay by James P. Philbin.)
 

A tribute to a hero of our times on the centenary of his birth, by Shawn Ritenour.

A tribute to F.A. Hayek, born May 8, 1899.

The meaning of his life and contributions.

Hayek on Politics and the State. 

Ralph Raico points out in his incisive introduction to this fiftieth anniversary edition of The Roosevelt Myth that many take sharp criticism of FDR to constitute sacrilege against the civic religion of the United States. 

In this year of Millennium Lists ("Best Ten Songs of the Millennium," etc.), the Wall Street Journal tried its hand at the ten economists--whom it called the "best and brightest"--who have "made a difference" in the last thousand years. Of course, the big problem in twentieth-century intellectual history is that the "best and the brightest" were not the ones who "made a difference." While the list did contain some names to cheer (Aquinas, Hayek, and Schumpeter) it also had plenty to boo (Marx, Keynes, and Veblen).

In 1949, freedom had no future.

The place of Human Action in the life of a student. (A speech by Shawn Ritenour)