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Friedenberg was among those who regarded US participation in the Vietnam War as an abomination. He had begun expressing his outrage in print in the mid-'60s, though most of it was directed at American public schools rather than at American foreign policy...

For hundreds of years, politicians (like a certain current US president) have pushed the idea that one man’s profit is another man’s lo

Rothbard shows that Gresham’s law was introduced not by Sir Thomas Gresham but by the “arrogant, boorish, and feisty” Sir Thomas

It seems now that almost everyone, from journalists to academics to clergy, relies unthinkingly on Marxian doctrines.

"As long as the easy, attractive, superficial philosophy of Statism remains in control of the citizen's mind, no beneficent social change can be effected, whether by revolution or by any other means."...

Jeffrey Tucker interviews Mark Thornton, senior fellow at the Ludwig von Mises Institute, and editor of the new translation of Richard Cantillon&#8

Carried through consistently, the right of property would entitle the proprietor to all the advantages that the good’s employment may generat

Rothbard’s vast published output does not exhaust his thinking and writing.

English justifications of absolutism stressed time and again that the subjects must obey the king in any and all circumstances, whether or not the

From Theory and History Part Three, “Epistemological Problems of History”. Narrated by John Pruden.

From Theory and History Part Four, “The Course of History”. Narrated by John Pruden.

From Theory and History Part Three, “Epistemological Problems of History”. Narrated by John Pruden.

From Theory and History Part Three, “Epistemological Problems of History”. Narrated by John Pruden.

There is no such thing as interests independent of ideas, preceding them temporally and logically.

From Theory and History Part Three, “Epistemological Problems of History”. Narrated by John Pruden.

From Theory and History Part Four, “The Course of History”. Narrated by John Pruden.

From Theory and History Part Three, “Epistemological Problems of History”. Narrated by John Pruden.

Milgram reflected on Etienne de La Boetie's key insight about the politics of authority, the will to bondage, and the eager embrace of voluntary servitude. He devised an ingenious test for their influence on the ordinary individual...

These documents are a joyful alternative career of Rothbard’s writings and research, and as such inherently one of the most valuable (and mos