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An Anti-Hagiography for Celebrated Mass Murderers by Anthony Gregory
Ralph Raico, Great Wars & Great Leaders: A Libertarian Rebuttal (Auburn, Alabama: The Ludwig von Mises Institute, 2010), 246 pages. The greatest leaders, according to conventional appraisals, are usually those who draw the most blood. Most opinion makers distance themselves from Hitler, Mao, Stalin, and their ilk, although [...]
Us vs Them by Allen Davis
The press and the politicians would have us believe that this country is a huge mess of "us" versus "them" combinations. No matter where you turn, there's a debate raging – white versus minority, pro-life versus pro-choice, liberal versus conservative, urban versus rural, smoker versus non-smoker, the list is endless. In a sense, "they" are [...]
Federal Marshals Threaten, Censor «Libertarian Enterprise» By L. Neil Smith
For the first time, in its sixteenth year of publication, this journal of libertarian views and opinion -- bound by an absolute moral resolve never to initiate force against anyone for any reason, nor to advocate or delegate its initiation -- has been threatened by agents of the federal government and ordered to remove content from its [...]
Why the War? The Kuwait Connection by Murray N. Rothbard
This originally appeared in the May 1991 Rothbard-Rockwell Report Why, exactly, did we go to war in the Gulf? The answer remains murky, but perhaps we can find one explanation by examining the strong and ominous Kuwait Connection in our government. (I am indebted to an excellent article in an obscure New York tabloid, Downtown, by Bob Feldman, [...]
“Of Studies” By Francis Bacon
Studies serve for delight, for interest, and for ability. Their chief use for delight is in privateness and retiring; for interest, is in conversation; and for ability, is in the judgement and disposition of business. To spend too much time in studies is sloth; to use them too much for interest is affectation; to make judgement wholly by [...]
ENCYCLICAL OF ARCHBISHOP DEMETRIOS FOR OXI DAY – OCTOBER 28, 2010
OXI Day To the Most Reverend Hierarchs, the Reverend Priests and Deacons, the Monks and Nuns, the Presidents and Members of the Parish Councils of the Greek Orthodox Communities, the Distinguished Archons of the Ecumenical Patriarchate, the Day, Afternoon, and Church Schools, the Philoptochos Sisterhoods, the Youth, the Hellenic Organizations, [...]
The American Lenin by L. Neil Smith
It's harder and harder these days to tell a liberal from a conservative -- given the former category's increasingly blatant hostility toward the First Amendment, and the latter's prissy new disdain for the Second Amendment -- but it's still easy to tell a liberal from a libertarian. Just ask about either Amendment. If what you get back is a [...]
The Antiquarian of Herat
by Carlo Ungaro Diplomatic reminiscences from Herat in the 1970s; delicate interventions, fragile civil society. The beautifully kept grounds of the main Mosque in the western Afghan city of Herat are flanked by one of the town’s most attractive and busy streets. There, on an unbearably hot summer day of 1972, I came across a very [...]
The Morpheus Proposal
by Jim Davidson When we first meet her, the character Trinity is in a room numbered 303. Throughout the film, "The Matrix" there is a delightful motif of numbers. A little later, we meet the character "Neo" who, we are told is "the one." Obviously, Neo is an anagram of "one." We meet him for the first time in his room, 101.Numbers play a key role [...]
Marxism vs. the Majority
by Ludwig von Mises Class consciousness, says Marx, produces class ideologies. The class ideology provides the class with an interpretation of reality and at the same time teaches the members how to act in order to benefit their class. The content of the class ideology is uniquely determined by the historical stage of the development of [...]
Speak English Or Get Out? ¡Vete a La Verga, Buey!
by Mark R. Crovelli On my way home from work a few days ago, I pulled up behind a white pickup truck full of tools on the outskirts of Aurora, Colorado. It purported to be a work truck, although by the look of its immaculate paint and the pristine tools it was carrying, it was hard to imagine that the occupants did much actual work. What [...]
The Anti-Educational Effects of Public Schools
by Gennady Stolyarov II "Once the irrational, punitive norms delegitimize all norms in the eyes of many, even the natural laws, which make all societal cooperation possible, are not immune from the resulting reaction." With so many state governments' budgets now under severe strain, there are serious discussions throughout the country [...]
Vices Are Not Crimes: A Vindication Of Moral Liberty
by Lysander Spooner I. Vices are those acts by which a man harms himself or his property. Crimes are those acts by which one man harms the person or property of another. Vices are simply the errors which a man makes in his search after his own happiness. Unlike crimes, they imply no malice toward others, and no interference with [...]
Gold and Economic Freedom by Alan Greenspan
An almost hysterical antagonism toward the gold standard is one issue which unites statists of all persuasions. They seem to sense - perhaps more clearly and subtly than many consistent defenders of laissez-faire - that gold and economic freedom are inseparable, that the gold standard is an instrument of laissez-faire and that each implies and [...]
Emergency Alert to Small Business: How One Clause of “Jobs Bill” Could Wipe Out Small Business in America Tomorrow!
By Wayne Allyn Root I am an economic refugee from California. I escaped to Nevada with my family, my business and my life a decade ago. It was either run for my life, or die trying. I escaped because of the impossible business climate - the highest income and business taxes in the country, the highest workers comp taxes, out of [...]
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