Biographies
Literature, Culture, and Economics
Teaching literature has changed now that the humanities have become a species of what is known as grievance studies, concerned with whether a given author is sexist or racist or classist. This is a cultural shift in education, and not for the better.
Planning for Freedom
There is no other means to attain full employment, rising real wage rates and a high standard of living for the common man than private initiative and free enterprise.
Benjamin Constant: French Liberal Extraordinaire
"He loved liberty as other men love power," was the judgment passed on Benjamin Constant by a contemporary. His lifelong concern, both as a writer and politician, was the growth of human freedom.
Rothbard's Editor on the Mentor He Never Met
Without Rothbard Austrian economics and libertarianism would have taken a very different turn.
What Is the Proper Way to Study Man?
It becomes evident from Richard von Mises's fundamental work that mathematical probability theory can never be applicable to economics, or to any other study of human action.
Jeffersonian or Hamiltonian?
Unlike Hamilton, Jefferson did not believe that state coercion should be used to re-shape and control society and markets.
Marxism vs. the Majority
As the Marxians do not admit that differences of opinion can be settled by discussion and persuasion or decided by majority vote, no solution is open but civil war.
Is Libertarianism Amoral?
Conservatives have often claimed that that the libertarian (aka "classical liberal") alleges "human freedom as the single moral imperative. " But I doubt a single example of this could be found in the whole history of liberalism.