World History

F.A. Hayek’s classic The Road to Serfdom was published eighty years ago. Critics then called Hayek a “reactionary.” Today, he is looking more and more like a prophet.

Since the inception of the NDA Government in 2014, India’s right-wing has consistently performed well across all sectors of society.

The Methodenstreit between the Mengerian Austrian School and the German Historical School needs to be rejoined. Mainstream economists are embracing the historicist approach, which is not real economics at all.

While modern India is known for adopting socialism in the 1940s, it has an older tradition of free markets. It is time to rediscover that tradition.

By the logic of "we tried it before," the Soviet victory over Lithuania in 1953 meant that the question of independence was settled forever, and that Irish secession was forever verboten after the Easter Rebellion failed. 

When people say that “socialism doesn’t work,” what do they mean? To better examine and critique socialism, one should apply the socialists’ framework, which is alone worthy of condemnation.

On this episode of Radio Rothbard, Ryan and Tho are joined by Marcel Gautreau to discuss the situation unfolding in Haiti.

The 50th anniversary of the coup that removed Marcello Caetano from power in Portugal on the afternoon of April 25, 1974, supposedly ushering an end to Corporatism, is two months away from being commemorated.

As Murray Rothbard has noted, there is an important distinction between nation and state. The former is a voluntary association of people while the latter is coercive and predatory. Progressives, of course, claim the opposite.

While Thomas Paine might be one of the most obscure "Founding Fathers" of this country, he was a powerful intellect who helped move people to choose liberty and independence.