Is Lindsey Graham the Worst US Senator?
In this episode of Radio Rothbard, Ryan McMaken and Tho Bishop discuss whether Lindsey Graham is the worst member of the US Senate. The two carefully compare him to other terrible American senators — including Mitch McConnell and Tom Cotton — before settling on a
Rothbard on Marxism as a Religion
In this week’s article, I’d like to discuss an aspect of Murray Rothbard’s criticism of Marxism that is often misunderstood. The topic is important not only for understanding the essay by Rothbard I’ll be discussing, “Karl Marx as Religious Eschatologist,”
The Looming Threat of a National Breakup
Recorded at the 2022 Austrian Economics Research Conference hosted at the Mises Institute in Auburn, Alabama, March 18–19, 2022. The F.A. Hayek Memorial Lecture, sponsored by Greg and Joy Morin. Includes audience question and answer period. The Austrian Economics Research Conference is
A Harder Line with Beijing? Let’s Hope Not.
It was hoped at the outset that high-level meetings this week between Washington and Beijing might go some way toward bringing the crisis in Ukraine to an end. Instead, in both President Joe Biden’s Friday conversation with President Xi Jinping and Jake Sullivan’s
Required Reading: Rothbard Graduate Seminar 2022
Listed and linked below are the readings that all students must complete before attending RGS. All materials are available on Mises.org free of charge, and most readings are available in multiple formats (e.g., PDF, ePub, HTML, audio). Complimentary physical copies of the readings
The Character of American Individualism
Individualism, and its economic corollary, laissez-faire liberalism, has not always taken on a conservative hue, has not always functioned, as it often does today, as an apologist for the status quo. On the contrary, the revolution of modern times was
Love, Fear, and the Law of Good Intentions
Max Weber, citing Leon Trotsky at Brest-Litovsk, bluntly stated that “every state is founded on violence.” The imaginative theories that have been at times employed to justify the state violence do not fall under the scope of this article. What is
Warburton on Theories of Monetary Control and the Fed
In December 1946, Clark Warburton published an article in the Political Science Quarterly titled, “Monetary Control under the Federal Reserve Act,” which was reprinted in chapter 14 of his landmark book, Depression, Inflation, and Monetary Policy (1966). He argues that
A Brief History of Pundits Encouraging Nuclear War
There is an active, influential, and well-paid minority of pundits and politicians in America who apparently believe that escalating conflict between nuclear powers—and even nuclear war itself—is not really that big a deal. These, of course, are the sorts of people
A Manufactured World Crisis
Few people today ask the most important question about the conflict between Russia and Ukraine. Many people want America to stay out of the fight, but even they don’t ask the vital question. Why does the world face a crisis