Politics After a Nuclear Crisis
Contained in the legal systems of almost all modern liberal democratic states is the provision for extraordinary executive power to be exercised in
Contained in the legal systems of almost all modern liberal democratic states is the provision for extraordinary executive power to be exercised in
War is the health of the state, and thanks to a population enamored of military institutions, states are able to tax and spend with ease.
Whenever the fascists came to power in Europe, they banned the work of the Austrian economists. The reason: the Austrians wrote as vehemently against “right-wing” central planning as against old-fashioned left-wing socialism.
Special thanks to Christopher P. Condon, Terence Murphree, and TJ & Ida Goss for making this event possible.
In honor of the late Murray N. Rothbard, S.J. Hall Distinguished Professor of Economics, University of Nevada, Las Vegas.
Sponsored by Louis E. Carabini and Joseph Edward Paul Melville.
The political scientist and sociologist Max Weber defined the state as any “human
Robert Higgs, editor of The Independent Review, is the author of the book Crisis and Leviathan, a survey of the episodic growth of the federal government in periods of war and economic crisis.
Interviewed by host Paul Molloy, Mark Thornton discusses gun control and freedom, and also the ongoing conflict in the Ukraine.