Professor Leland B. Yeager (University of Virginia and Auburn University) is one of the giants of the generation of economists after Ludwig von Mises. He was Mises’s student and translator — and has made a lifetime of contributions to policy, theory, method, ethics, and aesthetics from the point of view of a champion of freedom and a deep
The ability to find cities to host their events lies largely on the ability to minimize drug-related problems, writes Jonathan M. Finegold Catalan. This audio Mises Daily is narrated by Joel
[Transcribed from the Libertarian Tradition podcast episode “Libertarian Science Fiction”] One day in the late spring of 1951, something rather astonishing happened in an otherwise nondescript shopping district in a medium-sized city somewhere in the American Midwest. Right there, right smack in the middle of the block, where Aunt Sally’s Lunch
[Transcribed from the Libertarian Tradition podcast episode “Libertarian Science Fiction II”] This essay is about four writers, none of whom was a libertarian, but each of whom wrote something back in the 1960s that made a significant contribution to the libertarian tradition. The first of the four was a science-fiction writer, though only
[Transcribed from the Libertarian Tradition podcast episode “Ambiguous Utopias”] The mid-1970s — meaning, let us say, the five-year period encompassing the years 1973, ‘74, ‘75, ‘76, and ‘77 — was a heady time for the modern American libertarian movement. To those of us who were involved back then, it seemed we were on the verge of a major
[Transcribed from the Libertarian Tradition podcast episode “Libertarian Journalism in the ‘60s, ‘70s, and ‘80s”] As seasoned denizens of the libertarian blogosphere know well, libertarians and libertarianism turn up pretty frequently these days in the writings of mainstream journalists. Sometimes we get an entire article devoted to us; when we
In a recent conversation with a younger libertarian, I heard something that I found somewhat surprising and somewhat disturbing at the same time. But later, on reflection, I realized that what I had heard should not have surprised me, however much it may still disturb me. My young friend had said, and I paraphrase here, that he was surprised to
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