[As reprinted in Left and Right , Spring 1966, edited by Murray N. Rothbard. Rothbard’s Editorial Note: Education is a perennially important and controversial subject, especially in a country as child-centered as the United States. Within libertarian ranks, an unlimited diversity of viewpoint prevails, ranging from rigorous traditionalists to
Few political ideologies are as misunderstood as anarchism. Confusion is so widespread, in fact, that those ignorant of this intellectual tradition often use the word “anarchism” as a synonym for “chaos.” Some of the confusion may arise from the fact that anarchism is today often solely associated with the anti-private-property anarchists of the
[Beginning on Thursday, January 3, 2013, Thomas DiLorenzo, author of The Real Lincoln and Hamilton’s Curse , will be teaching the five-week online course “Hamilton, Clay, Lincoln and the Curse of Economic Nationalism.” ] One of the themes of Murray Rothbard’s writings on the nature of the state is that state power ultimately depends on the
In an essay entitled “Lincoln, the Declaration, and Secular Puritanism: A Rhetoric for Continuing Revolution,” the late Professor Mel Bradford explained the ideological genesis of American foreign and military policy that has existed since 1861. Abraham Lincoln’s “erroneous understanding of the Declaration of Independence” as espoused in his
Beginning on September 9, Mises Academy presents “Imperialism and Anti-Imperialism,” a five-week course taught by Dr. Thomas J. DiLorenzo. Prof. DiLorenzo discusses the class and the nature of American imperialism: For generations, American students have been taught that their government was a constitutional republic and, as such, is truly
In his famous 1898 essay, “The Conquest of the United States by Spain,” the great Yale University libertarian scholar William Graham Sumner argued that America had crossed the Rubicon, so to speak, and had become an imperialistic empire. It had become the Spanish empire. But Sumner was only half right. The conquest of Cuba was an imperialistic
Thomas DiLorenzo’s Mises Academy class on imperialism and anti-imperialism begins tonight, September 9, and continues for five weeks. Register now. After the American “Civil War,” the Republican Party, which for the succeeding half century would enjoy monopolistic political power matched only by the Bolsheviks in Russia, set about to deify Abraham
According to this Mises U alum, Mises U experience can be applied to some degree programs: Thank you @mises Just found out I’m getting Field Study credits at Virginia Tech for my time at Mises U this summer! pic.twitter.com/WiG5fEnOEK — Anti State (@AdamBlacksburg) December 12,
The Free Market 31, no. 10 (October 2013) Ron Paul, Distinguished Counselor to the Mises Institute, recently released his new book The School Revolution: A New Answer for Our Broken Education System . Dr. Paul spoke with us about his new book and how decentralization, competition, and online instruction are revolutionizing education. The Free
Many young people want to know what has caused this ongoing economic crisis and many are looking for places to study Austrian free market economics. One University that is often overlooked is Troy University. Its faculty contain several free market economists who are sympathetic to the Austrian School of economics including former Mises Summer
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