Having just finished a course on the New Deal for the Mises Academy, I’m now offering one on state nullification , the subject of my most recent book . I thought my New Deal course covered issues and sources left out of the typical classroom, but in that respect this course has that one beat. Nullification is the Jeffersonian idea that the states
It was only a matter of time before Hollywood “discovered” homeschoolers. Ponder the promo from The O’Keefes , a sitcom, which will premiere this summer on the Warner Brothers network. “Harry and Ellie O’Keefe are loving but eccentric parents who’ve homeschooled their three children to protect them from the loud and libidinal world.”
Jeffrey Tucker: Stephan Kinsella, it’s a pleasure to have you here today. Welcome. Stephan Kinsella: Thank you. It’s good to be here. Tucker: We’re going to talk about your class for the Mises Academy, on intellectual property. Kinsella: Yes, I’m looking forward to it. We’ve been planning it for quite a while, as you know. I think the first course
[From The Writings of F. A. Harper, Volume 2 ] August 1954 Two million students will soon pack their trunks and be off to college. The yearly cost of this gigantic enterprise of “higher education” is some four billion dollars — enough to deserve careful attention by those who will pay the bills. As parents, we have little direct control over its
In previous decades libertarians viewed intellectual property as a boring and technical area of the law, the province of legal specialists. They also assumed it to be a legitimate, if arcane, type of property in a capitalist, free-market society. After all, it’s in the Constitution, and Ayn Rand blessed it. But we don’t ignore it anymore, and we
The economy is now a networked economy. “Information goods” are becoming more important than traditional goods. Online businesses are a more substantial driving force than brick-and-mortar establishments. Some people even say that in this networked world centralized managerial hierarchies are obsolete; in the future, they will be replaced by
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Non-political, non-partisan, and non-PC, we advocate a radical shift in the intellectual climate, away from statism and toward a private property order. We believe that our foundational ideas are of permanent value, and oppose all efforts at compromise, sellout, and amalgamation of these ideas with fashionable political, cultural, and social doctrines inimical to their spirit.