The realistic alternative is to rid ourselves of special privilege and the companion welfare-state idea that government is an all-purpose device fit to solve all our problems. In order to do this it is necessary to refute all totalitarian ideas, whether of the Marxian or Keynesian varieties, and to take up again the development of free-market principles with a full understanding of the theory and practice of the free society.
December 6, 2023 We Were Soldiers … Who Supposedly Died for Our Country
I was watching the 2002 war movie We Were Soldiers a couple of nights ago. I’ve seen it before but it’s such a great movie that I periodically re-watch it. It stars Mel Gibson, Madeleine Stowe, Greg Kinnear, Sam Elliott, Keri Russell, and others. The movie is based on a true story. It dramatizes the Battle of la Drang in Vietnam, ...
Freedom's Greatest Hour of Danger Is Now by John W. Whitehead
We are approaching critical mass, the point at which all hell breaks loose. The government is pushing us ever closer to a constitutional crisis....
The Beginnings of a Reborn Austrian School of Economics by Richard M. Ebeling
Fifty years ago, on October 10, 1973, one of the leading members of the Austrian School of Economics, Ludwig von Mises (1881–1973), passed away ...
Bastiat's Concept of What is Seen and Unseen by Jacob G. Hornberger and Richard M. Ebeling
In this week's Libertarian Angle, Jacob and Richard discuss Frederic Bastiat's famous essay about the broken window ...
America's National-Security State by Jacob G. Hornberger
The following is a nonverbatim transcript of a talk that I delivered on September 1, 2023, at the young scholar’s segment of the annual ...
