"The Internet and other personal technologies have been the saving grace of the past 20 years. In every other respect, Western societies in 2010 look much more dysfunctional and tyrannical than they did in 1990."

Know the New Deal Cold

Tags: Interventionism, Big Government, Legal System, U.S. Economy

07/30/2010 Thomas E. Woods, Jr.

The Depression is supposed to be Exhibit A of the alleged instability of the free market left to its own devices, while the New Deal represents the indispensable corrective power of the state.

The Death Throes of Pro-IP Libertarianism

Tags: Monopoly and Competition, Philosophy and Methodology, Private Property, Legal System

07/28/2010 Stephan Kinsella

"The direction of the future, of progress, is towards more abundance and prosperity and wealth. It is obscene to undermine the glorious operation of the market in producing wealth and abundance by imposing artificial scarcity on human knowledge and learning."

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