September 2011
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“The overwhelming majority of state supporters are not philosophical statists,...”
– Reflections on the Origin and the Stability of the State, Hans-Hermann Hoppe
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“It is evident that the common enthusiasm for equality is, in the fundamental...”
– Education Free & Compulsory by Murray N. Rothbard
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“Justice removed, then, what are kingdoms but great bands of robbers? What are...”
– Saint Augustine, The City of God Against the Pagans, ed. trans. R.W. Dyson (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2002), pp. 147-48, bk. IV, ch. 4.
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“The direction of all economic affairs is in the market society a task of the...”
– Ludwig von Mises, Human Action, p.270
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libertarians asked: Two general questions: (1) are you optimistic for a libertarian community--even a small one--in our lifetime, and (2) how do you personally believe this movement of sorts will happen? I'm optimistic about the Free State Project but I'm extremely pessimistic lately about a greater scale of libertarian ideas catching on.
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“The situation is not irreversible… [G]overnment intervention is beset by...”
– Murray N. Rothbard
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good-gollymissmolly11-deactivat asked: Oh my gosh, the link you sent me is AMAZING.
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coeus-deactivated20120628 asked: Hey, so since you always seem to have a wealth of information, I thought you could help me. I was researching media concentration all day today, and it seems to me that a few people have taken hold of the dissemination of information quite easily without the help or interference of the state. Is this a good/bad thing? Or does the state actually have a role to play in concentration of media? Would...
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“People can consume only what has been produced. The great problem of our age is...”
– Ludwig von Mises, Economic Freedom and Interventionism, ed. Bettina Bien Greaves (New York: Foundation for Economic Education, 1990), p. 47
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neohippie- asked: I commend you on being one of the few intellectually stimulating blogs I follow, so good job for that. I've been reading into libertarian beliefs and whatnot, trying to get a feel for it, and so far it seems like it's mainly based on self-serving objectives. Would it not be better to have a more harmonious system, where people work together for the rights that they want? Correct me if...
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E3: The Emotional Support of Minimum Wage Law
“…The most painful part in writing this is that nothing I’m saying is new.
So why is this battle still being fought? Worse yet: why does it seem that we’re losing? Minimum wage is one of the absolute simplest issues to address rationally, and yet the irrational law enjoys overwhelmingly popular support.
Abstract arguments and ethical principles leave people cold. They say...
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“It is the calm before the storm. Don’t forget to take a walk, smell the...”
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anti-stateaaron asked: Why does Foster's suck so much?
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“For why must we assume that the Soviet Union and the Eastern European countries...”
– Murray N. Rothbard, The End of Socialism and the Calculation Debate Revisited. 