Not being a television watcher, I was amazed to discover, from watching an hour or two of commercials this weekend, that there is a little pill you can take that will turn your body from portly and weak to thin and strong in a matter of months, if not weeks. And how much better will be the eventual results if you acquire this thing called The Bean
Well, we’ve received enough notes of shock, awe, and delight to prompt this little piece to explain what’s up. The issue: in the last several months, the Mises Institute has brought back from oblivion a vast library of Austrian and libertarian books, and even published several new titles — publishing at a pace that rivals the biggest names in the
For an earlier generation of American dissidents from the prevailing ideology of left-liberalism, a rite of passage was reading Albert Jay Nock’s Memoirs of a Superfluous Man , which appeared in 1943. William F. Buckley was hardly alone in seeing it as a seminal text crucial to his personal formation. Here it is in one package, an illustration of
Introduction The Life of Garrett The Novels The New Deal Empire Bibliography If Garet Garrett (1878–1954) is known at all today, it is by those who are captivated by the handful of intellectuals who wrote in opposition to the New Deal planning state and the regimentation of national life it brought about. They were a rare breed, but there is much
It took twice through, but I’m finally convinced; Beowulf is a wonderful film. There is plenty to recommend it, even if it had stuck to the original plot line. Nearly every frame is beautiful and riveting. The visuals seemed to have borrowed from the field of gaming, so you can never quite tell if what you are looking at is real or animated. The
This is a fascinating review of Rothbard’s economic treatise , by Henry Hazlitt, published in National Review, September 25, 1962. He loves the book, of course, but introduces criticisms toward the end, particularly pertaining to the Rothbardian perspective on repudiating government debt, the legalization of blackmail, and the strict distinction
Web junkies have become accustom to the idea that anything Google does is glorious, so it has come as something of a shock to realize that the its takeover of Blogger has been, well, not going well. In fact, for many people, the conversion has been a calamity. Among those blogs that have converted, hundreds, perhaps thousands, perhaps hundreds of
Odds are that you have never heard of this book, much less own it, for it is exceedingly rare and I’ve hardly ever seen a mention of it, though it is just brilliant. It is The Anatomy of Criticism: A Trialogue , by Henry Hazlitt. It is now available for free download or in print on demand . (And it was a big sacrifice to give up my personal copy
What is the Mises Institute?
The Mises Institute is a non-profit organization that exists to promote teaching and research in the Austrian School of economics, individual freedom, honest history, and international peace, in the tradition of Ludwig von Mises and Murray N. Rothbard.
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.