Lecture by Hans-Hermann Hoppe, as published at LewRockwell.com. At the beginning, I want to repeat a few points that I have made in my previous lecture on law and economics, and then I want to get to an entirely different subject than the one that I dealt with in that previous lecture. Because there is…
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A Message to Statists of the Left and the Right
Send him mail. “Food for Thought” is an original bi-weekly column appearing every other Tuesday at Everything-Voluntary.com, by Norman Imberman. Norman is a retired podiatrist who loves playing piano, writing music, lawn bowling, bridge, reading, classical music, going to movies, plays, concerts and traveling. Archived columns can be found here. FFT-only RSS feed available here.…
The Rabbit Hole
Writes Free Your Kids: …And suddenly, without warning, your eyes become opened, your brain un-muddles, you realize what you’ve been taught is a farce and a sham. A babe need not be born at a hospital? Or placed in a cage at night? This child needs only warm milk from her mother and unceasing love?…
Who is a Libertarian?
Writes Stephan Kinsella: After much thought and debate about this topic over the last 25 or so years, here is my attempt at a lean, concise, precise definition of what a libertarian is: A libertarian is a person who believes that the invasion of the borders of (trespass against) others’ bodies or owned external scarce…
The Rise and Fall of the City
Written by Hans-Hermann Hoppe for Mises.org. Nearly every urban setting in the world is fraught with conflicts between groups, so much so that political commentators can speak of votes and candidates mostly in terms of the demographic composition and impact of the vote. It is not only in Baghad were people struggle over the levers…
Embracing Markets, Opposing “Capitalism”
Written by Gary Chartier, as published at the Center for a Stateless Society. Being a libertarian means opposing the use of force to restrain peaceful, voluntary exchange. That doesn’t mean it should be understood as involving support for capitalism. Whether this claim makes any sense at all depends, of course, on what you mean by…
Mark Thornton
“Toward Freedom” is an Everything-Voluntary.com series sharing personal stories about the journey toward freedom. Archived stories can be found here. Submit your story to the editor. Originally published in I Chose Liberty: Autobiographies of Contemporary Libertarians. Geneva is a small town in the Finger Lakes region of western New York State. I was born and raised…
Government Will Lose the War on Piracy
Written by Jeffrey Tucker for Laissez Faire Today. It began as a skirmish. Then it was a battle. It became a war. Now it is a bloody conflict that is global in scope. Both sides have passed the point of no return. There is no question who is winning and going to win totally in…
The Open Society
Written by F. A. Harper, as published in The Voluntaryist, April 1992. The advantages of an open society on a world basis have been explored to only a slight degree and would seem to deserve much more thought as a solution for solving major international problems. To see its potential, one might think of how…
What Makes Anarchy Peaceful or Violent?
Imagine a world in which all members of the ruled class – that is, ordinary individuals who do not belong to the structures of power – suddenly disappear without a trace, the only people remaining being the members of the ruling class – politicians, bureaucrats, and their enforcers. Now, since in order to be a…