Education

The Free Market 28, no.11 (July 2010)

The trouble with nullification is not that it is too "extreme," as the enforcers of opinion would say, but that it is too timid. But it gets people thinking in terms of resistance, which has to be a good thing, and it defies the unexamined premise of the entire political spectrum.

"Finally, everything fell into place, primarily from Rothbard and Misesian theory. I found that this issue is difficult, but once you see it, it's one of these issues that sets peoples' minds on fire. It frees you to think about other things in different ways."

Recorded at the Ludwig von Mises Institute; Auburn, Alabama; 9 October 2010.

Caplan could just as easily have written, "An optimal solution to education would actually involve gang members randomly beating up college freshmen." I am not exaggerating. Caplan's statement is literally equivalent to my own suggestion.

Friedenberg was among those who regarded US participation in the Vietnam War as an abomination. He had begun expressing his outrage in print in the mid-'60s, though most of it was directed at American public schools rather than at American foreign policy.

These conservatives think they are "defending freedom" by supporting every military adventure that the state concocts. They are not.

Rothbard maintains that one cannot consistently combine libertarian economic policies with international belligerence.

Dissatisfaction with the Treaty of Versailles, as well as the ravages of the Great Depression, brought Hitler to power in Europe.

In none of the three cases mentioned above were the students aware of just how close their beloved books had come to a permanent death.