A Strategy Against Woke
The weekend revolves around a discussion of strategy. Nearly 25 years ago, Professor Hans-Hermann Hoppe delivered his famous "What Must Be Done" speech on the pressing topic of how—and whether—to engage the state. Today his prescription for a bottom-up ideological
A Strategy for Medical Freedom
The weekend revolves around a discussion of strategy. Nearly 25 years ago, Professor Hans-Hermann Hoppe delivered his famous "What Must Be Done" speech on the pressing topic of how—and whether—to engage the state. Today his prescription for a bottom-up ideological
Misesian Economics in Truly Private Schools
A person's education, wrote Murray Rothbard, is the "entire process of growing up, of developing all the facets of a man's personality."1 From the helplessness of infancy, a child learns about himself, others, and the world around him through his actions.
The Left Still Pines for Socialist War Planning
Left-leaning economists often look back with nostalgia to the 1950s. Paul Krugman and Thomas Piketty, for example, long for the 1950s, when the income and wealth gap between the rich and the poor was less than it is now. True,
Industrial Policy—a.k.a. Central Planning—Won’t Make America Great
Across the political aisle pundits are suggesting industrial policy as a tool to contain the ascent of China. Commentators worry that failure to do so might result in China eclipsing America as the world’s economic superpower. Without doubt, the tantalizing
Economic Progress Requires Long-Term Thinking
Robert Luddy gave a lecture in sorely missed 2019 titled “Henry Hazlitt’s Long-Term Economic Thinking: Foundation of Entrepreneurial Excellence.” Throughout his talk, it’s clear that Hazlitt has had a profound impact on Luddy—an entrepreneur who’s exhibited excellence for decades. How is it that Luddy personifies success?
There’s Nothing Hawkish About the Fed’s New Tapering Plan
The Federal Reserve concluded its November Meeting of the Federal Open Market Committee on Wednesday. According to the FOMC’s statement, the Fed now plans to taper beginning in mid-November by cutting back its asset purchases by 10 billion in Treasury securities
Marx and Alienation
"Alienation," to Marx, bears no relation to the fashionable prattle of late-20th-century Marxoid intellectuals. It did not mean a psychological feeling, of anxiety or estrangement, which could somehow be blamed on capitalism, or on cultural or sexual "repression." Alienation, for
The Madness of Taxing Unrealized Capital Gains
President Biden’s proposal to require roughly 700 U.S. billionaires to pay taxes annually on unrealized capital gains has garnered wide support by Democrats as another step to make the rich pay for the uncontrolled spending by the federal government. House
How Media and Tech Elites Seized Control of Elections
Rigged! How the Media, Big Tech, and the Democrats Seized Our Electionsby Mollie HemingwayRegnery Publishing, 2021, 432 pp. Mollie Hemingway, an editor of the online magazine The Federalist, calls our attention in this well-researched book to a problem of vital significance.