If we were to make a science out of the study of special interest groups, we would conclude that the cause of liberty is hopeless. Those who have the most to gain from intervention are well organized and well connected. Those who have the most to gain from freedom are dispersed, diffuse, and not well connected.
Includes the presentation of the 2006 Schlarbaum Award For Lifetime Defense of Liberty to Hans-Hermann Hoppe, at the 2006 Supporter’s Summit:
From the 2006 Supporters Summit: Imperialism: Enemy of Freedom, 27-28 October 2006, Auburn, Alabama.
From the 2006 Supporters Summit: Imperialism: Enemy of Freedom, 27-28 October 2006, Auburn, Alabama.
Me and my friend, Herb, were having a few yeasty libations the other night at the malt shop.
The law should focus on violations of person and property, not scientific oddities like blood content.
In a recent issue of Greg Aharonian’s PatNews newsletter, he points out that it may be possible for patent law to be stretched to cover things like
In many ways, the group has been misnamed. Federalism refers to the system of decentralized government. This group defended states rights — the very essence of federalism — against the Federalists, who would have been more accurately described as Nationalists. Nonetheless, what the so-called Antifederalists predicted would be the results of the Constitution turned out to be true in most every respect.
From the book For A New Liberty: The Libertarian Manifesto, as narrated by Jeff Riggenbach.
