Freedom lives at UT Austin
Remember to mark your calendars for 1/26 for the first Libertarian Longhorns meeting of the semester, featuring a presentation by our own Andy called “Libertarianism is Beautiful.” For more information, check out the Facebook event page. Also, we have been able to reserve a room for the UT Mises Circle. Meetings will be held on [...]
Every year, I like to construct a list of some of the best books released in the past year and a few a others that are worth recommending at any time. Of course, this is my opinion, but if you’re looking for a gift for your libertarian loved one this Christmas season then perhaps you’ll [...]
Monday afternoon marked the release of Ron Paul’s “Restore America Now” economic plan and federal budget, and it is impressive. Forget this “9-9-9” garbage put forward by campaigns that prefer catchy numerical alliterative nonsense to substance, Ron Paul’s plan is the only plan that immediately eliminates five cabinet departments and craters the military-industrial complex in [...]
I was recently asked to interview with a student seeking different viewpoints on political aspects of climate change and alternative energy. Here’s what we talked about… (my answers are in italics) 1. With concern to the energy industry, where do you stand on the argument that free markets will provide the most economically efficient solution [...]
Remember the Hayek-Keynes Rap from John Papola, Russ Roberts, and EconStories? Well, they have posted their second video on Youtube just today (right now it only has 300 views). And trust me, it is EPIC! What an amazing exposition of Austrian economics ideas, plus some cultural criticism while we’re at it. The video touches on [...]
Wants and Needs A typical characteristic of libertarians that is rarely found among other people is an assumption that it is desirable, possible, and practical to bring universal theorizing into politics. Libertarians desire a theory of politics that can be applied everywhere, to all societies, to all people, no matter how differently they should feel [...]
This classic essay was originally written by Oscar Cooley and Paul Poirot, and is excerpted from a pamphlet originally published by FEE in 1951. Can we hope to explain the blessings of freedom to foreign people while we deny them the freedom to cross our boundaries? Freedom of movement underlies the concept of private property [...]
Intellectual property, especially copyright and patents, is purely fictitious, a construction of the State. Stephan Kinsella has definitively proved such in his paper Against Intellectual Property. Nevertheless, the US government continues to prop up this inefficient and unethical practice. Under the Digital Millennium Copyright Act, many lives have been ruined by the bad side of [...]
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