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What Is Fascism? It's the System We've Been Living under for Decades.

U.S. HistoryWorld HistoryPolitical Theory

Blog4 hours agoLlewellyn H. Rockwell Jr.

Fascism is the system of government that cartelizes the private sector, centrally plans the economy, exalts the police state, denies fundamental liberties to individuals, and makes the executive state the unlimited master of society.

A World without Political Leaders?

World HistoryPhilosophy and Methodology

Blog7 hours agoDavid Gordon

Manent insists that if political leaders don’t lead society, we will have a society that isn’t led by political leaders. So what?

How Government Policy Reduces Fertility

World History

Blog01/15/2021Gor Mkrtchian

Government policy now ensures that the benefits of children are socialized, while the cost of raising children remains private. If you wanted to reduce families, you couldn’t think of anything better.

Carl Menger and the Sesquicentennial Founding of the Austrian School

History of the Austrian School of EconomicsPraxeologyValue and Exchange

Blog01/14/2021Richard M. Ebeling

With his Principles of Economics Carl Menger not only laid the foundation for the Austrian school itself but for its continuing development to this day.

The Upside of Lockdowns: More Saving

Money and BanksOther Schools of ThoughtProduction Theory

Blog01/14/2021Doug French

Rothbard: "At the outset of every step forward on the road to a more plentiful existence is saving….Without saving and capital accumulation there could not be any striving toward nonmaterial ends."

Politics Won't Fix the American Decline

Strategy

Blog01/14/2021Zachary Yost

While it is popular and accurate to blame our societal elites for being inept, the truth is that these leaders, both political and cultural, are reflections of us.

There Is No Such Thing as Treason

U.S. History

Blog01/13/2021Ryan McMaken

Some of the Capitol rioters are apparently guilty of real crimes like assault. Or even attempted murder. But none are guilty of the made-up, imaginary "crime" that is "treason."

How the State Preserves Itself—and What the State Fears

World History

Blog01/13/2021Murray N. Rothbard

The gravest crimes in the state's lexicon are almost invariably not invasions of private person or property, but dangers to the state itself: treason, desertion, insurrection, etc. The state does not exist to protect its citizens, but to protect itself.