Comrade Hayek?
This led Rothbard to criticize him. He was asked by the Volker Fund to comment on Hayek’s The Constitution of Liberty, and he recommended against its publication.
This led Rothbard to criticize him. He was asked by the Volker Fund to comment on Hayek’s The Constitution of Liberty, and he recommended against its publication.
Rothbard’s principles were, of course, consistent from the time he first put pen to paper, and they made him a lightning rod for controversy and the standard by which all pro-liberty thought is measured to this day.
Reed suggests that the authoritarian government of China is better, in that it permits the country to be run by a technological elite.
He stressed the importance of class struggle, favored the labor theory of value, and rejected talk of rights and justice as ideological distortions.
The empire persists, in other words, not simply because Americans believe that it is good, necessary, or even particularly virtuous, but because they have difficulty imagining that it could be otherwise.
The state involvement of the Cold War—from Sputnik to Apollo—was an historical anomaly.
The cartoonist who defined corporate America — and the storm that ended his career.