Presented at the Mises Circle in Manhattan, hosted by the Ludwig von Mises Institute and sponsored by the Story Garschina Charitable Fund, and Anonymous Donor. Recorded on Friday, 14 September 2012, at the Metropolitan Club in New York
[Day 22 of Robert Wenzel’s 30-day reading list that will lead you to become a knowledgeable libertarian, this article is excerpted from Defending the Undefendable . An MP3 audio file of this article, read by Jeff Riggenbach, is available for download .] “Let’s see, I have a nice three-room apartment on the upper West Side No, no Madam, not a
[Walter Block will be presenting the webinar How to End Unemployment in One Day Friday, January 27, 2012 at 7 p.m. EST.] How could unemployment be ended in one day? The short answer is, Pass a law making unemployment illegal, punishable by the death penalty; that will reduce unemployment to zero, heck, not in one day, but in one second. Who would
[Walter Block will be teaching a 6-week online course on his classic work, Defending the Undefendable , starting March 26, 2012. Enroll today. ] At first glance it is not hard to answer the question, “Is blackmail really illegitimate?” The only problem it would seem to pose is, “Why is it being asked at all?” Do not blackmailers, well, blackmail
[Day 24 of Robert Wenzel’s 30-day reading list that will lead you to become a knowledgeable libertarian, this article was published on LewRockwell.com on July 21, 2004.] Mr. Gary Haugen INTERNATIONAL JUSTICE MISSION Dear Mr. Haugen: I attended your speech at Regent College in Vancouver on July 14, 2004; I wanted to comment at that time, but the
[Day 26 of Robert Wenzel’s 30-day reading list that will lead you to become a knowledgeable libertarian, this article originally appeared on LewRockwell.com, January 1, 2004.] I resist the notion that we have a “right to unionize” or that unionization is akin, or, worse, an implication of, the right to freely associate. Yes, theoretically, a labor
[ Libertarian Papers (2010)] The essence of libertarianism is its nonaggression principle. In order to determine whether some act or concept or institution is compatible with this philosophy, one may use this as a sort of litmus test. If you initiate violence against someone, you must pay the penalty for so doing, and are presumptively acting
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