Liberalism

Ryan McMaken looks at how classical liberals' pro-peace foreign policy was defeated by a century of war propaganda beginning with the First World War. 

Adlai Stevenson said that, “A hungry man is not a free man.” Many assume free exchange is invalid unless a basic level of wealth is achieved by the parties, but this is an error.

In Nicholas Wolterstorff‘s Understanding Liberal Democracy, he assails a vastly influential school of thought in a way that libertarians will find useful.

Within a libertarian society, people are free to act as long as they follow a principle of non-aggression. But can a libertarian society adopt an idea of the common good? In his Friday Philosophy, David Gordon tackles that question.

This week, David Gordon draws insights from The Struggle for Liberty: A Libertarian History of Political Thought—a new Mises book that adapts Raico‘s lecture series into a footnoted, annotated volume.

What Murray Rothbard used to call the "Old Right" stood for liberty, freedom of speech, and a free economy. Most importantly, they stood for peace, all in contrast to the "liberals" of their day and ours.

What Murray Rothbard used to call the "Old Right" stood for liberty, freedom of speech, and a free economy. Most importantly, they stood for peace, all in contrast to the "liberals" of their day and ours.

While F.A. Hayek was a promoter of liberty, his work nonetheless often failed to acknowledge just how predatory the state really is. Murray Rothbard understood that the real enemy is the predatory state.

In the context of decades-long regional and foreign policy conflicts regarding Iran, the new Iranian president might signal a shift toward more peaceful alternatives.

Live at Mises University in Auburn Alabama, Ryan and Tho look at the methods of radical libertarians in light of Rothbard's essay on revolution.