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.
Just about everyone is drawn to the libertarian respect for property rights. Yet most people draw back from fully embracing property rights, and taking libertarianism to its fulfillment in "anarchocapitalism" or free-market anarchy.
Logical mistakes in common economic arguments; confusions about use of ethics in economics. Recorded at Mises University 2010.
Links between liberty, morality, and economic growth and moral objections to capitalism as greed. Recorded at Mises University 2010.
Recorded at Mises University 2010. Includes an introduction by Mark Thornton.
With so many state governments’ budgets now under severe strain, there are serious discussions about how to cut state funding to public educa
