Libertarianism

To adopt monasticism before the international fascism we face today would amount not only to seceding but also to ceding everything worth saving to the monsters

In my view the language of “homesteading” of persons (i.e., children) is best abandoned. Retaining it causes confusion, and nothing essential to the theory is lost by giving it up.

What is the correct analysis, from a libertarian point of view, of governmental action in the face of the coronavirus? Is the state justified in imposing quarantines or vaccines to cure this disease?

Today’s progressive humanist movement transcends freedom, liberty, and reason by seeking utopian perfection through flawed secular dogma and compulsory communitarianism. Humanism’s progressive values cannot be achieved via compulsory means, as evinced by the repeated failure of intellectual attempts to transform functioning societies into social utopias.

While the present democratic social order may be the technologically most advanced civilization, it most certainly is not the most advanced socially. The principal counterstrategy of recivilization must be a return to “normality” by means of decentralization.

Today would have been the ninety-second birthday of JoAnn Rothbard.

The coronavirus demonstrates how crises become local.

Mises University is the world’s leading instructional program in the Austrian school of economics.

Recorded at the Arizona Biltmore Hotel in Phoenix, Arizona on October 6–7, 2022.