In the last few weeks I've read a few of the more famous "libertarian fiction" works—Henry Hazlitt's Time Will Run Back , and Garet Garrett's The Cinder Buggy and The Driver . Hazlitt may have been a good writer, but he had no skill in fiction. The characters in Time Will...
Just finished reading Burton Folson's The Myth of the Robber Barons . It's a quick read (the third edition comes to 134 pages outside of notes), and contains the eye-opening stories of true capitalists like Vanderbilt , Hill , and Rockefeller . As Folson explains, these are the kind of men whom...
Free Market Regulation Explained by Alex Merced Everyone always assumes that as free marketers that we advocate there be no regulations at all, but the truth is we think there should be no government monopolies of regulation or violence used in enforcing it. Then the response always is, if the government...
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Barry Goldwater's The Conscience of a Conservative is, sadly, just another politician's manifesto, making sweeping statements in support of individual rights in one breath and in the next sacrificing them at the altar of government. He believes in individual property rights, sure: One of the...
As sure as I know anything, I know this: they will try again. Maybe on another world, maybe on this very ground, swept clean. One year from now — ten — they'll swing back to the belief that they can make people... better. I do not hold to that. So no more running — I aim to misbehave...