minarchy ⁽²⁾

Murray N. Rothbard. What Has Government Done to Our Money?, 6th edition. Auburn, Alabama: Ludwig von Mises Institute, 2024, softcover, 138 pages. (1st edition was in 1963.) In my last post, I noted how “I’m ill at ease with the emphasis on anarchism and preference for Hoppe and Rothbard in the [Mises] caucus” because “anarchism strikes me as unrealistic and Utopian, the same sort of ideology-driven fantasizing that created and sustains Marxism.”…

Prospective Remarks This post comprises three sets of remarks: Some concluding comments will follow these three sets of remarks, though I can’t promise those comments will strengthen the linkages between the sets. I can’t even promise that they will attempt to do so. Favoring liberty but opposing anarchy, defending radical skepticism as a coherent and rational choice for unbelievers, and promoting the cause of abortion abolition to atheist empiricists who idolize Ayn…