Dr. Yoram Hazony’s new book The Virtue of Nationalism asks several provocative questions: are nation-states necessarily illiberal? Are globalism and universalism inevitable? If so, why do we blithely assume a post-national world will be liberal and benign? Are movements toward supranational governance, always ordered around western political
The midterm elections failed to produce an overwhelming Blue Wave, and political rancor in the US remains feverishly high. Now an astonishing new article in The Intelligencer considers the idea of a “federated” America, broken up into several political entities associated via compacts. It’s not a dystopian view of a possible future, but rather a
This week, Mises Weekends features a 1988 lecture from Dr. Hans-Hermann Hoppe on Marxist and Austrian class analysis. It might surprise some that Dr. Hoppe sees some “intellectual affinities” between Austrianism and Marxism, in the way that each identifies exploitation among a ruling class. Of course, for Austrians, we identify that it is the
Jeff Deist joins the Tom Woods Show to discuss libertarianism , left and right, and ongoing divisions within the movement. If you could have libertarianism triumph, but it meant cultural outcomes of which you disapproved, would you still want it? A thought-provoking interview you won’t want to
Michael Boldin from the Tenth Amendment Center joins Jeff Deist to discuss the philosophical, electoral, and logistic realities standing in the way of creating a more politically decentralized America. Beyond thorny questions about federal land, federal entitlements, and “national defense,” there are a million small ways to move power away from
This article is excerpted from a talk delivered at the 2018 annual meeting of the Property and Freedom Society . Introduction Ladies and gentlemen, the first task for any intellectual or ideological effort is to understand the environment surrounding it. Whether we like it or not, we live in a decidedly illiberal age: an age hostile to private
Brian Doherty at Reason magazine has a new article that attempts to dispel certain myths surrounding “cultural Marxism,” a term used promiscuously and inaccurately in Mr. Doherty’s view. Fair enough, but the article sheds more heat than light on what is in fact a very illiberal and powerful phenomenon in western countries. Cultural Marxism and
There is no epidemic of gun violence in America; quite the opposite in fact. But last week’s shooting at a high school in Florida was a grim and jarring reminder of deep cultural problems lurking just beneath the veneer of our materially comfortable society. Those problems are beyond the scope of libertarianism per se , but again we see that
Neil Peart, the extraordinary drummer for the band Rush, has produced another terrific travel journal titled Far and Wide: Bring that Horizon to Me! Peart is already a photojournalist of some acclaim, having written several tour diaries over the years full of his musings and pictures from life on the road with one of the most successful rock acts
Introducción Señoras y señores, la primera tarea de cualquier esfuerzo intelectual o ideológico es comprender el entorno que lo rodea. Nos guste o no, vivimos en una edad decididamente iliberal: una era hostil a la propiedad privada, el individualismo, la civilidad, el habla, la libertad académica, la cultura, incluso a la civilización misma. El
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