Political Theory

A speech on war delivered a century ago. 

Professor Hans Hoppe, in his outstanding new introduction to the reissue of The Ethics of Liberty, hits the nail on the head. He contrasts Murray Rothbard with Robert Nozick. Nozick, according to Hoppe, is impressionistic and given to flights of fancy. Rothbard, by contrast, reasons by strict deduction from self-evident axioms.

I am most grateful to Virginia Postrel. In this issue of The Mises Review, I have not had the opportunity to write a really negative review. 

Peace and market exchange are inseparable. 

Rothbard takes on National Review.

He grants absolution to government.

The decline of executive state legitimacy.

Politicians who love the belly of the beast. 

The ideological origins of the Republican Party.

In 1949, freedom had no future.