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The Destruction of Everything Considered Normal Has Created Division, Hate, Instability, and Chaos?

By / August 17, 2022

By: Gary D. Barnett “Remembrance of the past may give rise to dangerous insights, and the established society seems to be apprehensive of the subversive contents of memory.” ~ Herbert Marcuse, One-Dimensional Man: Studies in the Ideology of Advanced Industrial Society The Marxist position concerning the social nature of man as opposed to the individual is fatally […]

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The Only ‘National Security’ Necessary Is the Elimination of the ‘National Security State’?

By / August 13, 2022

By: Gary D. Barnett “I’m afraid, based on my own experience, that fascism will come to America in the name of national security.” ~ Jim Garrison “National Security” is just the excuse for every form imaginable of tyranny, totalitarianism, privacy destruction, abuse of freedoms, aggression, terror, and war. Every time I hear this deceptive and scurrilous […]

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Garet Garrett: Far Forward of the Trenches

By / August 1, 2022

Joseph Sobran discovered these Garet Garrett essays “one night, long ago, at the office of National Review, where I then worked.” As the flagship of modern conservatism, National Review supported the Cold War and the hot war then raging in Vietnam. “Two questions occurred to me,” Sobran writes. “One: ‘Why haven’t I heard of this […]

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The Anti-Capitalists: Barbarians at the Gate

By / July 28, 2022

[This talk was presented as the Ludwig von Mises Memorial Lecture at the Austrian Scholars Conference in Auburn, Alabama on March 15, 2008. This talk is also available in video and MP3 audio file.] One thing is abundantly clear. Both the spirit and the genius of Ludwig von Mises are alive and well here at the […]

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Political Freedom vs. Personal Freedom

By / July 26, 2022

Jeff Deist: Ladies and gentlemen, welcome once again to The Human Action Podcast. We’ve got an excellent guest; he’s a friend of mine and also a friend of the Mises Institute, Stephan Livera. Many of you know him from the bitcoin world, from his eminently successful podcast, The Stephan Livera Podcast, but also, he’s a […]

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Liberty versus “Relational Egalitarianism” | David Gordon

By / July 22, 2022

Richard Arneson has been a major figure in political philosophy for the last few decades, and in this week’s article, I’d like to look at some points he raises in his article “Liberal Egalitarian Critiques,” his contribution to The Routledge Companion to Libertarianism, pp. 564–78. In the article, Arneson distinguishes between “hard” libertarianism, which accepts […]

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Argentina’s Difficult Political Landscape and Libertarian Prospects for Change

By / July 13, 2022

Argentina, the mystery of South America. How could a country that was once the most prosperous in the world now rank seventy-third (see figure below)? It is also in sixth place in the Annual Misery Index. How could this happen? What’s going on now? The history of how Argentina took this road of decadence is […]

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Federalism, Not Centralization, Is the Way out of the Current Conflicts

By / July 8, 2022

The overturning of Roe v. Wade is a historic decision, upholding the highest principle of a republic. A republic is born through freedom of association in the same manner as individuals band together to form a family, families band together to make a community, and communities band together to make a society. In an ideal situation […]

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The Real Aggressor | Murray N. Rothbard

By / July 7, 2022

A sign of our time is the split-personality of the conservatives. Many to the right of center are off on a schizophrenic pursuit of both liberty and collectivism. In domestic affairs this regrettable condition is gradually being recognized for what it is. But the time is nigh for conservative foreign policy, as well, to be […]

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