Today is the centennial of the birth of Murray Rothbard. While he was alive, Rothbard was the most significant direct influence both on a wide range of individual libertarian scholars and activists ...

Murray Rothbard realized the present system of punishment for committing crimes is both inadequate and unjust. We need to ...

The strange global influence of anarcho-capitalism. Ad Policy Murray Bookchin (left) and Murray Rothbard. Murray Bookchin and Murray Rothbard are both examples of how formerly obscure thinkers can ...

The libertarian movement has lost its way over the past 60 years as it's shifted from Friedrich Hayek's classical liberal corrective to Depression-era central planning to Murray Rothbard's full-blown ...

Norman Singleton is Rep. Ron Paul’s legislative director. He has worked for Dr. Paul since 1997. Once a month, Norm and I meet at Bailey’s Pub & Grill in Arlington, Virginia to discuss two ...

But Rothbard himself granted that his course was not wise, if what he sought was professional advancement. As he explained in a letter to Robert Kephart: “Bob, old and wiser … heads have been giving ...

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It is difficult to discuss the American libertarian movement without considering the late economist Murray Rothbard. On this date, which would have been his 96th birthday, we present and discuss the ...

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It is a bit jarring for me to point to economist, political theorist, and historian Murray Rothbard (1926–1995) as an example of American exceptionalism. Rothbard was a fierce critic of all aspects of ...