How (and Why) Washington Lies About Everything
Recorded at the Ludwig von Mises Institute; Auburn, Alabama; 9 October 2010.
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The Fed, Gold, and Troubled Times
Recorded at the Ludwig von Mises Institute; Auburn, Alabama; 8 October 2010.
What Kind of Person Runs for Public Office?
Many elected officials are already wealthy by most people's standards. What makes the wealthy and otherwise successful want to hold office? Is it an overweening ego and an insatiable hunger for public adulation?
Prepare for Betrayal
The Tea Party, no matter how successful it is at the polls in November, will certainly betray the party of liberty. There are several reasons for this, but the fundamental one is intellectual. The Tea Party does not have a coherent view of liberty.
Democracy and Laissez-Faire: A New York Case Study
"Let the banks perish. … Now is the time for the complete emancipation of trade from legislative thralldom."
William Leggett (1801–1839)
Albert Jay Nock and the Libertarian Tradition
"As long as the easy, attractive, superficial philosophy of Statism remains in control of the citizen's mind, no beneficent social change can be effected, whether by revolution or by any other means."
Strictly Confidential: The Private Volker Fund Memos of Murray N. Rothbard
Murray Rothbard is widely known for his vast literary output, but a great deal of his work has never been published until now. During the late 1950s and early 60s he worked for the William Volker Fund, one of the few organizations willing to...
The Danger Not Over
it is only when great and good men are at the head of a nation that the people can expect to succeed in forming such barriers to counteract recent encroachments on their rights; and whenever a nation is so supine as to suffer such an opportunity to be lost, they will soon feel that the danger was not over.
Nullification: Jefferson’s Remedy for Tyranny, Yesterday and Today
Recorded at FreedomFest, 10 July 2010. Includes an introduction by Douglas E. French.
The Fatal Conceit: The Myth of Limited Constitutional Government
Recorded at FreedomFest, 10 July 2010. Includes an introduction by Douglas E. French.
