Recently, the media has been abuzz with the story of Jay-Z and Beyonce’s visit to Cuba. Like Dennis Rodman’s visit to North Korea, it is beginning to appear as though the Obama administration’s new tools of foreign policy are coming
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Chicago School ‘Market Socialism’
Reprinted from LewRockwell.com In the April 8 issue of the Wall Street Journal George Schultz and Gary Becker advocated a massive new carbon tax. Their arguments are based on very poor economic reasoning and an extremely naïve view of politics
Socialism and Communism
Reprinted from “Planned Chaos“ 3 Socialism and Communism In the terminology of Marx and Engels the words communism and socialism are synonymous. They are alternately applied without any distinction between them. The same was true for the practice of all
We Should Be Listening To Susan Crockford
Republished from The Global Warming Policy Foundation Foreword To Susan Crockford’s Ten Good Reasons Not To Worry About Polar Bears In 1978 three friends and I spent six weeks camped in a valley in Spitsbergen. The possibility that we would
Remembering Hugo
Republished from Taki’s Magazine You will be missed, Hugo Chavez. The world has lost a man who was larger than life, and we don’t only mean your Body Mass Index. We will always love and admire you, even though you
In Instanbul: The Rise & Fall of Society
Reprinted from Laissez Faire Today It’s Istanbul, not Constantinople, as the song goes. In this history is an omen for any powerful state (read: the U.S.). A somewhat obscure essayist knew all about it back in 1959. His little book
The Myth of Scandinavian Socialism
Redmond is the director of the Ludwig von Mises Institute of Canada.
Krugman’s Call for a Housing Bubble
Reprinted from Mises.org In 2009, Lew Rockwell posted this quote of Paul Krugman’s from a 2002 New York Times editorial: To fight this recession the Fed needs…soaring household spending to offset moribund business investment. [So] Alan Greenspan needs to create
So total is the Left’s cultural ascendancy that no one likes to mention the socialist roots of fascism
Reprinted from the Telegraph ‘I am a Socialist,’ Hitler told Otto Strasser in 1930, ‘and a very different kind of Socialist from your rich friend, Count Reventlow’. No one at the time would have regarded it as a controversial statement.
What Happened to the Businessman
Reprinted from The Vampire Economy: Doing Business Under Fascism. New York: Vanguard Press, 1939 . Chapter 1 BUSINESSMEN all over the world are dissatisfied and apprehensive. The depression has proved to be not only the most drastic and widespread in
The Problem with the League of Nations
[This article is excerpted from Liberalism, Chapter 3] 10. The League of Nations Just as, in the eyes of the liberal, the state is not the highest ideal, so it is also not the best apparatus of compulsion. The metaphysical
Abolish Social Studies
Reprinted from City Journal Emerging as a force in American education a century ago, social studies was intended to remake the high school. But its greatest effect has been in the elementary grades, where it has replaced an older way
Obsessed by Megalomania: Interview with Hans-Hermann Hoppe
Reprinted from LewRockwell.com The following interview with Hans-Hermann Hoppe first appeared in the German weekly Junge Freiheit on November 2, 2012, and was conducted by Moritz Schwarz. It has been translated here into English by Robert Groezinger. Are taxes nothing
The Marxian Doctrine of “Ideology”
[This article is excerpted from volume 2, chapter 12 of An Austrian Perspective on the History of Economic Thought (1995). Reprinted from Mises.org] Even Marx must dimly recognize that not “material productive forces,” not even “classes,” act in the real
Santa Keynes and the Hayekian Grinch
A great article by Peter Foster over at the Financial Post Keynesianism has extended Âdownturn, despite recent praise We are now approaching the fourth Christmas of the great debate between the benign supporters of Santa Keynes and the walnut-hearted acolytes
Stephen Harper and the Myth of Lincoln
Errol Mendes, a University of Ottawa law professor, has published an opinion piece entitled “Lincoln was a uniter, Harper is a divider.” In it, he cultivates the statist myth of Abraham Lincoln. Lincoln was driven by deep-seated, universal principles of human dignity
Orderly and Humane?
Reprinted from Peter Hichen’s Blog at U.K. Mail Online Some time ago I decided to write a book about the damaging and deluded cult of national victory which has done this country so much damage since 1945. No doubt it
Vindicated by History: Statism’s 19th Century Critics
Reprinted from the Cobden Centre What is the single most important fact about the 20th century? The answer must surely be that it was the century which saw the birth and spread of totalitarian socialism. That is not what most
Jane Jacobs: Libertarian Outsider
Reprinted from Mises.org When Jane Jacobs died five years ago (the exact date was April 25, 2006), there was a brief flurry of interest in a couple of libertarian publications — one brief obit ran on Mises.org, for example —
Nearing the End of Serfdom’s Road
In France, Minister for Energy and Environment Delphine Batho recently proposed a light curfew to pertain to “in and outside shops, offices, and public buildings†between 1 a.m. and 7 a.m. beginning next July. Some merchants are up in arms
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