Bewildered white Liberals are wont to ask: “What do you people want?” Some newsmen recently asked virtually this same question of H. Rap Brown, fiery young leader of SNCC and the Black Power movement. Rap replied: “I want Lyndon Johnson to resign and go to Vietnam and fight — he and his family.” Particularly interesting were the varied reactions
The Journal of Libertarian Studies has been founded not simply to provide an outlet for scholarship and research that may be unpopular in a particular discipline. It is the belief that there is a new and growing interdisciplinary discipline—libertarianism—enriched by contributions in each of the particular and seemingly isolated fields that study
The Individual’s Education Formal Instruction Human Diversity and Individual Instruction The Parent or the State? Children’s Associations Compulsory vs. Free Education Compulsory Education in Europe Fascism, Nazism, and Communism Compulsory Education in the United States Arguments For and Against Compulsion in the United States The Goals of Public
The task of the libertarian intellectual is not limited to political and economic theory, as this neglected essay by Murray Rothbard argues. It extends also to understanding history, not from the point of view of the state and the ruling class, or from a priori theorizing, but from looking at the raw facts of the case. Doing so yields results
[This review of Paul Samuelson’s Ninth edition of his famous textbook Economics is reprinted from The Wall Street Review of Books (December 1973): “A Review of Paul Samuelson, Economics, 9th ed. (New York: McGraw-Hill, 1973)”; and The Logic of Action II (Edward Elgar, 1997, pp. 254–59. Samuelson’s Economics is now in its 17 th edition.] Reviewing
An audio version of this Mises Wire is available here . The key issue in the entire discussion is simply this: shall the parent or the State be the overseer of the child? An essential feature of human life is that, for many years, the child is relatively helpless, that his powers of providing for himself mature late. Until these powers are fully
[A selection from Education: Free and Compulsory . ] One of the most important facts about human nature is the great diversity among individuals. Of course, there are certain broad characteristics, physical and mental, which are common to all human beings. But more than any other species, individual men are distinct and separate individuals. Not
[A selection from Education: Free and Compulsory . ] The Reverend George Harris described the effects of compulsory education in imposing uniformity and enforced equality (soon after the establishment of compulsion): Education is already so generally provided in America and other countries [1897], that, without forecasting imaginary conditions,
¿Qué tiene el sistema escolar actual que tantos encuentran insatisfactorio? ¿Por qué generaciones de reformadores no han logrado mejorar el sistema educativo y, de hecho, lo han llevado a degenerar cada vez más en un nivel cada vez más bajo de mediocridad? En esta monografía radical y académica, agotada durante dos décadas y restaurada según el
[Publicado originalmente The Libertarian Forum , febrero de 1976, pp. 3-6] ¿Qué tiene que ver el revisionismo con el libertarismo? Muchos libertarios no ven la relación. Atrapados en la teoría del axioma de la no agresión y en que el Estado ha sido el principal agresor, estos libertarios no ven ninguna necesidad de preocuparse por los mugrientos
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