In 1771 Oliver Goldsmith sent a friend a short report on a sitting member of Parliament: “Burke is a farmer – en attendant a better place, but visiting about too.” The report was accurate. That autumn the member wrote to […]
For fourteen years, from 1920 to 1934, Ludwig von Mises held a seminar in his office at the Vienna Chamber of Commerce. He wasn’t a salaried professor. The University of Vienna let him lecture without pay, and his living came […]
On November 1, 1966, All Saints’ Day, the National Football League awarded its sixteenth franchise to New Orleans. The timing wasn’t a coincidence of the calendar. A few weeks earlier Congress had passed a law exempting the merger of the […]
Historic events usually don't arrive on a date. The numerals Europe counts with didn't have a launch day. Leonardo of Pisa, the mathematician later called Fibonacci, brought the Hindu-Arabic system to Italian merchants in his Liber Abaci in 1202, and […]
Ask someone why the state runs the schools and the answer arrives instantly, before the question has even finished: of course it does, who else would? That instant, unreflective quality is itself worth noticing. Almost nothing else this large — […]
A kid is still on the swings when the first truck backs in. Nobody closed the gate, nobody posted a notice on the bulletin board by the restrooms — the crew just arrives, cones off the strip of brush along […]
The Libertarian Party (US): a political party in the United States that promotes civil liberties, non-interventionism, laissez-faire capitalism, and limiting the size and scope of government. The party was conceived in August 1971 at meetings in the home of David F. Nolan in Westminster, Colorado, and was officially formed on December 11, 1971, in Colorado Springs, Colorado. The organizers of the party drew inspiration from the works and […]
Road to Serfdom, Friedrich Hayek, 1944 cartoon summary Contents Chapter I. The Abandoned Road Human will has made the world what it is — The individualistic basis of modem civilization — Liberalism not a stationary creed — But it has not been allowed to develop and was abandoned — Germany as the leader in […]
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