Free Markets

Rothbard has succeeded in sustaining what remains of the postmeltdown high-tech and information sectors, albeit in India and China.

The appropriate policy is not to strengthen labor standards but to open borders and allow people to cross them freely.

In the literature of the American Revolution there is no demagogic attempt to set human rights against property rights.

Presented to the Auburn University Libertarians; September 21, 2009.

Rothbard is even more consistent and rigorous than I had imagined.

The point, once more, is not that the conservatives deployed bad arguments against the supposed extremism of Mises and Rothbard. Rather, they downgraded the role of reason as such; and this rendered ineffective their resistance to the Left.

Now that our country is expected to be the foremost champion of the “free world” (for how long and at what cost nobody knows), it has b

The notion that only the state can provide an adequate defense is but one more statist myth — perhaps the most dangerous one of all.

What we must think about, if we deserve to be free, is that sooner or later, as a result of its very nature, either its socialism or its democracy will have to yield.

"No one has ever succeeded in the effort to demonstrate that unionism could improve the conditions and raise the standard of living of all those eager to earn wages."