Media and Culture
The Brilliant but Confused Radicalism of George Orwell
One doesn't have to read far into the works of George Orwell to discover that he had no understanding of economics whatsoever and was not personally a libertarian in the sense we have in mind when we use that word today.
Review Property, Freedom, and Society: Essays in Honor of Hans-Hermann Hoppe
David Howden review Hans-Hermann Hoppe's 2009 Festschrift.
The New State Cookshops
"All the portions served out are of the same size. One insatiable fellow today who asked for more was rightly served by being heartily laughed at. For what more deadly blow could be leveled at one of the fundamental principles of equality?"
Thomas Paine, Liberty’s Hated Torchbearer
"His widely published 'Letter to Washington' described the party of Hamilton as 'disguised traitors' who were 'rushing as fast as they could venture, without awakening the jealousy of America, into all the vices and corruptions of the British Government'."
Murray Rothbard at His Semicentennial
Rothbard was a man of great achievement and immense scholarship, an indefatigable worker, and the most significant anarchist writer then living — i
Was Robert A. Heinlein a Libertarian?
But because of his interaction with Robert LeFevre in Colorado in the '50s and '60s, libertarian ideas were among those he toyed with and dramatized in certain of his stories.