Education

There are many reasons for the decline of the family, lifestyle choice among them, writes Per Henrik Hansen.

Hating politics is fine, writes Lew Rockwell, but serious thought requires a fundamental rethinking of the role of government in the world.

When it comes higher education follies, the Community College of Southern Nevada (CCSN) gives any institution a run for its money, writes Doug French. There are so many transgressions a person tends to forget them, and chalk them up to business as usual. That this must be how all junior colleges are run.

In a private educational setting, with no government meddling, individual schools could set their own policies, writes Robert Murphy.

It often happens that an ideological movement will make great strides through education and organization and cultural influence, only to take the fateful step of believing that politics is the next rung on the ladder to success.

It is particularly important that believers in liberty not take this course.

Anyone who has spent any time on college campuses knows that most college faculty members are left-leaning and likely vote Democrat, if not Green or Socialist. So when a study recently found 91 percent of the UNLV faculty is liberal, it was not exactly earth-shattering news. Although the study's finding — that UNLV is slightly more liberal than even UC Berkeley — does give one pause.

Thomas E. Woods presents the The Lou Church Memorial Lecture at the 2004 Austrian Scholars Conference.

How did a masterpiece like Man, Economy, and State come to be written? Stromberg unearths Rothbard's correspondence: "I shall try to do for Mises what McCulloch did for Ricardo."

Recorded at Mises University 2001.

Recorded at Mises University 2001.