Did anyone catch President Bush’s endorsement of anarchism today? At least I reckon that’s what he must have meant when he said “America will not impose our own style of government on the unwilling.” As one of the unwilling, I was very happy to hear
Herbert Spencer was one of the 19th century’s greatest defenders of peace and freedom. I’ve recently posted some chapters from his book Facts and Comments , published in the penultimate year of his life, on the evils of militarism and the reciprocal relation between imperialism, statism, and the brutalisation of popular culture. This is the first
Just got back from a week in Paris, where inter alia I visited the gravesite of Gustave de Molinari, the 19th-century originator of free-market anarchism. For anyone planning a visit to Père Lachaise cemetery, Molinari’s grave isn’t on the official maps but I’ve posted directions for finding it here
Johan Ridenfeldt has kindly sent me some early Swedish encyclopedia entries on Gustave de Molinari (founder of free-market anarchism), along with his translations. I’ve posted them on the Molinari site . I love the description of Molinari as “the law of supply and demand made into
What is the Mises Institute?
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.