Today would have been MNR’s 80th, as mentioned here and here . I just happened to be going through an archive of old issues of the Free Market today and found this article by Lew Rockwell for Rothbard’s 60th: March Is Rothbard Month by Llewellyn H. Rockwell, Jr. On March 1st in New York City, through the generosity of Mr. Robert D. Kephart, the
From PrisonPlanet.com : Republican Congressman Predicts Bush Impeachment Says US close to dictatorship Paul Joseph Watson/Prison Planet.com | March 3 2006 Republican Congressman Ron Paul has gone on record with his prediction that the impeachment of George W. Bush is right around the corner but warned that in the meantime the US was slipping
Murray Rothbard was always so gentle in his disagreement with his mentor, Ludwig von Mises. They disagreed on natural rights; they disagreed on the necessity of the State; and they disagreed on foreign policy (based, I suspect, on disagreements #1 and #2) What might seem at first to be the least significant is (4) their disagreement on the best
Since Lew Rockwell has blogged here about the Nobel Peace Prize, and Jeffrey Tucker and others ( 1 , 2 , 3 ) have blogged about the so-called Nobel Prize in Economics, I thought I’d take the opportunity to point out, once again, that these two prizes do not come from the same foundation. In his will, the Swedish capitalist Alfred Nobel
11/9/06 Ted Roberts 2101 Aftonbrae Dr. Huntsville, AL 35803 Recently, I had a stimulating discussion with the IRS about some bonds which matured in 2004. The discussion had to do with the fact that X dollars worth of bond repayment was NOT, as my IRS friends insisted, a profit demanding capital gain taxes. It was simply a return of my loan of
Statesmanship and Self-government The Colonial System Colonial Trade versus Free Trade American Principles The great sociologist William Graham Sumner explains how the imperialist wars result in the very opposite of their stated intentions. In this 1899 speech, he demonstrated how the ideals of the US were in danger of being displaced by the
Libertarian comicbook writer Paul Pope is at it again. The creator of the famed 1998 comic Batman & Mises has now written Batman: Year One Hundred . Is the Dark Knight battling Nazis again? No, this time his target is Police State America! According to the current Wired magazine, The series is set in a high-anxiety future, where totalitarianism
Gary North has a great piece on LRC today, explaining why organizations like the Mises Institute are so different: Here is my main thesis: The mark of sclerosis of an ideological organization is its failure to commit to its own past. If today’s troops are not reminded of the consistency of the vision and the sacrifices that went before, there is
Taking up the study of economics can help unravel many mysteries of history, among which the pressing issue: Whatever happened to sexy stewardesses? I don’t mean as individuals, but as an institution, as a cultural icon, as a persistent commercial expectation. There was a time when a jetsetting playboy was pictured as having a stewardess or two on
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The Mises Institute is a non-profit organization that exists to promote teaching and research in the Austrian School of economics, individual freedom, honest history, and international peace, in the tradition of Ludwig von Mises and Murray N. Rothbard.
Non-political, non-partisan, and non-PC, we advocate a radical shift in the intellectual climate, away from statism and toward a private property order. We believe that our foundational ideas are of permanent value, and oppose all efforts at compromise, sellout, and amalgamation of these ideas with fashionable political, cultural, and social doctrines inimical to their spirit.