When the Civil War came, many abolitionists, including William Lloyd Garrison, abandoned their traditional anti-war, anti-state stance to support the Northern cause, in the hope that a Union victory would bring a quicker end to slavery. One abolitionist who stuck to his anti-war position and defended Southern secession was Ezra Heywood; his
Issue 19.4 of the Journal of Libertarian Studies offers path-breaking and controversial articles on topics ranging from jurisprudence to economic history, and from sixteenth-century Spain to contemporary Iraq. (And check out 19.3 online too!) Here’s what you’ll find in 19.4: The United States’ intervention in Iraq is one of the defining issues of
Introduction The New Toryism The Political Spectrum? Utilitarianism and Gradualism Against Big Business Liberal Statism Anti-Concepts and the “Package Deal” The Anti-Authoritarian Left Anti-Reformism Participatory Democracy Lessons from the Left Notes [ Rothbard Memorial Lecture, Austrian Scholars Conference 2006 ] What an honor and a privilege it
Introduction Objective Value Value Subjectivism Positive Ethics The Goal of Happiness Rights and Utility [ This lecture was given at Mises University 2005. ] When I was given the title “Ethical Assumptions of Economics,” my first thought was to say, “economics has no ethical assumptions.” But then I thought this might not be the best way to earn
Issue 20.2 of the Journal of Libertarian Studies is even more filled than usual with revisionism and controversy! Take a look: In The Wealth of Nations , Adam Smith maintained that “the sovereign has only three duties to attend to.” The first two are national defense and the administration of domestic justice; then, famously, comes the third
Note: A rough 2003 draft of this article was mistakenly published in Reason Papers no. 28 (Spring 2006) instead of the finished 2006 version. This is the correct, final version. The morality of warfare is an issue that has long divided libertarians. The spectrum of libertarian opinion on the subject ranges all the way from Leonard Peikoff, who
[This talk was delivered on October 27, 2006, at “Imperialism: Enemy of Freedom,” the Mises Institute Supporter’s Summit. It is available in MP3 audio from Mises Media .] Today I wish to consider a certain argument for empire that comes not from liberty’s enemies but from its friends — though on this issue misguided friends, in my opinion. I shall
[ Conferencia en Memoria de Rothbard, Austrian Scholars Conference 2006 ] Es un honor y un privilegio para mí pronunciar la Conferencia en Memoria de Rothbard, aquí en el Instituto Mises, el centro mundial del pensamiento rothbardiano. Cuando leí por primera vez La ética de la libertad y Por una nueva libertad, de Murray Rothbard, en mi época
[Este discurso se realizó el 27 de octubre de 2006 en la Cumbre de Seguidores del Instituto Mises] Hoy quiere ocuparme de cierto argumento a favor del imperio que no viene de los enemigos de la libertad, sino de sus amigos, aunque en este caso sean amigos equivocados, en mi opinión. Lo llamaré el argumento cosmopolita del imperio. Según el
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