Natural Elites, Intellectuals, and the State
This monograph engages the long-running controversy about the origin of the state.
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Karl Marx: Communist as Religious Eschatologist
Israel M. Kirzner The Economic Calculation Debate: Lessons for Austrians Adobe Acrobat 6.0 Paper Capture Plug-in
It’s Never Enough
The Group of Eight finance ministers will meet this week in Perthshire, Scotland, writes Joseph Potts, to address various weighty financial decisions that their governments have expropriated from the more-capable hands of their citizens.
Remembered Past: John Lukacs on History, Historians, and Historical Knowledge: A Reader, by Mark G. Malavasi and Jeffrey O. Nelson, eds.
John Lukacs, in his own estimation, is much more than an ordinary historian. In what he considers his most important book, Historical Consciousness, he elaborates "not a philosophy of history but its opposite:
Robert Nisbet and the Conservative Intellectual Tradition
Delivered as part of the Mises Institute’s Summer Seminar Series.
How The Power To Tax Destroys
Why does the scope of the state always enlarge? Michael S. Rozeff suggests a theory based on the the incentives of those who possess the power to tax.
Why do people vote for Communists?
Communist Parties are still alive and well, even in post-communist countries. Luca Ferrini speculates that the larger the state, the more it corrupts the mind and the culture. Communism means never having to leave the nest.
A War That Cannot Be Won
Like FDR, George Bush got his war, writes Joseph Potts, but Bush went his Democratic predecessor one better—a big one better.
The Glory of War
People have long accused the great liberal tradition of a dogmatic attachment to peace. It would appear that this is precisely what is necessary in order to preserve the freedom necessary for all of us to find true meaning in our lives.
