A student recently asked me what was known of “Rothbard’s opinion on the events of early May, 1968 in France.” I turned to Joe Stromberg, Jedi Master of the Rothbard Archives, who kindly dug out for me two columns Rothbard wrote for the Colorado Springs Gazette Telegraph in 1968: “The Student Revolution” and “French Revolution – 1968.” For anyone
In this article by Rothbard, we find the following: “while liberals are in favor of any sexual activity engaged in by two consenting adults, when these consenting adults engage in trade or exchange, the liberals step in to harass, cripple, restrict, or prohibit that trade. And yet both the consenting sexual activity and the trade are similar
How much insanity can you pack into a single paragraph? I think Thomas Friedman is a strong contender for the prize with this gem from a New York Times op-ed today (thanks to Sheldon Richman for the link): I want to take time on this Thanksgiving to thank God I live in a country where, despite so much rampant selfishness, the public schools still
In the wake of last Tuesday’s election results, there’s been some talk on the left about the possibility of the blue states seceding from the red states. Most of this talk has been tongue in cheek, but divisions in the country are deep enough right now that the idea of secession has a better chance of making headway now than it has had for a long
[cross-posted at Austro-Athenian Empire and Liberty & Power ] An interesting economic demographic from Charles Johnson: contrary to much Democratic hand-wringing and Republican gloating, it appears that Kerry won the working-class vote, even in the red states; and the wealthier a voter was, the likelier she apparently was to vote for Bush. Degree
[cross-posted at Liberty & Power ] Philosopher John Searle has recently argued that the progress of empirical science has now made possible a “new kind of philosophy” no longer beset by the skeptical doubts that worried Descartes and Hume. I agree that philosophers needn’t be troubled by such skeptical doubts, but I don’t think the case against
This coming year, as of issue 19.1, I’m very honored to assume the editorship the Journal of Libertarian Studies . Hans-Hermann Hoppe, the editor for the past ten years, assumes the position of editor-at-large to focus his efforts on a general treatise on political economy. I’m very excited about the responsibility and opportunity that editorship
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