History

TLS Podcast Picks: Aaron Burr vs. Jefferson, Lew Rockwell vs. Parasite

by Stephan Kinsella December 6, 2011

Recommended podcasts: Aaron Burr and the Challenge to Jefferson’s America, KERA Think, Dec. 1, 2011 (“Who fostered imperial dreams for the young United States of America? We’ll explore the life and story of our country’s third vice president this hour with historian David O. Stewart. His new book is American Emperor: Aaron Burr’s Challenge to Jefferson’s [...]

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Spooner the Entrepreneur

by Jeffrey Tucker November 29, 2011

(I’m reposting this from Whiskey&Gunpowder because it is of particular libertarian interest) How much more ridiculous can the US Postal Service get? This you will not believe. It has embarked on a public relations campaign to get people to stop sending so much email and start licking more stamps. This is how it is dealing [...]

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On the Austrian Theory of Money, a Reply to David Graeber

by Akiva September 14, 2011

David Graeber and Robert Murphy have been debating the validity of the monetary regression theory.  They seem to be talking past one another.  Graeber is assuming that Austrian theory agrees with neo-classical theory in areas where it does not, and Murphy is assuming that Graeber is substantially more familiar with Austrian ideas than he seems [...]

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Death Comes for the Philosopher

by Wirkman Virkkala June 13, 2011

Though John Hospers was never my hero, he came close. Now he’s dead, like most of the other philosophical writers I admire. He died yesterday, a few days into his 94th year. Since I grew up in one of the two states of the union in which his name appeared on the ballot for the [...]

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Bastiat on Rome

by Stephan Kinsella April 18, 2011

Consider Bastiat’s comments on Rome and how–if you substitute for slavery the drug war and tax slavery–they apply to the modern US: What is to be said of Roman morality? And I am not speaking here of the relations of father and son, of husband and wife, of patron and client, of master and servant, [...]

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The Good In American Culture

by Manuel Lora March 17, 2011

Easily 99% of what American libertarians talk about is the demise of the country, with countless daily examples of new regulations, and the devastating results of those regulations. The US is, after all, in what to many appear to be an accelerating rate of decay compared to other countries around the world. The endless complaining [...]

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Is Obama Worse than Bush?

by Anthony Gregory March 16, 2011

The two are definitely in the same league, in absolute terms. Maybe Obama is Nixon to Bush’s LBJ, in that he is continuing and expanding upon his predecessor’s foreign and domestic enormities, deserving special ire for ramping them up, but with the president before still deserving special hatred for having started so many horrible policies. [...]

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