Featuring remarks by Jeff Deist, Llewlellyn H. Rockwell, Jr. [1:55], Thomas E. Woods, Jr. [4:27], Judge Andrew P. Napolitano [8:47], and Dr. Ron Paul [20:32]. Recorded in Lake Jackson, Texas, on Saturday, 15 August
The Free Market 14, no. 6 (June 1996) “Every great statesman must necessarily fail,” wrote Andrew Lytle in a moving tribute to John C. Calhoun. The reason: the statesman is driven by high ideals like freedom, self-government, justice, and constitutionalism, which will never be perfectly realized. Yet even in failure, the statesman preserves
“When I discovered what was true, I could not resist acting on it and telling others. “ Daily Bell: You have almost singlehandedly led a revolution in thought that has changed the world. How does that make you feel? Rockwell: Well, thank you, but that’s not how ideas work. Without donors, faculty, students, collaborators, distribution media, and
Delivered February 6, 1999 The head of state makes a speech to a packed house of legislators, and is cheered to the rafters for his flurry of visionary policy ideas. He calls for the restoration of cities and towns, and the revival of the nation’s industrial base through new spending programs. He makes more housing a national priority. He promises
Frederic Bastiat was a French economist, a passionate and articulate believer in free enterprise, who lived from 1801 to 1850. But his writings speak to us today, and help explain why the recent conflict with China has ended through diplomacy and peace rather than belligerence and war. The answer can be summed up in one word: commerce. Glorious,
The more time you spend with Austrian economists or libertarian intellectuals, the more you realize that Murray Rothbard’s influence has been underestimated. No, his name is not a household word (yet) but his influence is felt in another way: those who read him experience what amounts to the intellectual challenge of their lives. Whether that
Introducción : Lew Rockwell es un influyente defensor del movimiento de libre mercado moderno y principal orquestador del resurgimiento de la economía austriaca en Estados Unidos y el extranjero. Rockwell fue el propio editor de Ludwig von Mises en la década de 1960 y luego sirvió como jefe de personal del congresista Ron Paul. Es fundador del
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.