Throughout its history, liberalism—the ideology today called “classical liberalism” or “libertarianism”—has suffered from the impression that it is primarily against things. This is not entirely wrong. Historically, liberalism coalesced as a recognizable and coherent...
https://youtu.be/ktNTQUZSUuY All of libertarian political thought follows from the non-aggression principle: that no one, including the government, can aggress against someone else’s person or property. Murray N. Rothbard Irrepressible Rothbard, p. 374 LBRY:...
It's a tough new year for me, with Trump and everything. He, and his opponents, have made me feel like I live in crazytown more than anything else in recent history. At least (per the recent "Vice" movie) Dick Cheney just seemed like a lying jerk. I was listening...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mj2sy0WXNIk "For the first time Americans are now paying attention to foreign policy and they say, 'Wow, there are such crazy people in the world. Here we were minding our own business... we were on a picnic when the thing happened,...
This short piece continues series on some "Deeply Momentous Things" — that is, American intervention in the First World War. (See Part One.) As the first installment has shown in a general way, the background of the war among Europe and its extensions (Canada,...
My old friend and mentor Ralph Raico has died. He was 80. I cannot adequately describe how much I learned from him over the years: about liberalism, about how to be a historian, about how to lecture, about how to be an honest scholar. I will miss his wisdom, his...
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