Tag: Murray Rothbard

HotH2OHistory.com

I Had a Dream

It was a doozy too. One of those dreams you wake up from and then feel a sense of contentment, even jovial humor. It happened this past spring. I decided to record my memory of it. Here’s what I recorded at 5:34 in the morning this past April 23: [Cue dream sequence] So, yeah: I…
Read more

My Fourth of July with Per Bylund

Long gone are the previous American Independence days when I naively participated in all of the practices that bespoke of true American patriotism. Sure, barbeques are still good. Fireworks, ok. Seeing Old Glory everywhere–fine. Parades are still horrible. But, all of the attendant feelings I was supposed to experience and honestly wanted to believe, have…
Read more

‘Bread and Gold over Mice and Fleas’: Augustine and Aquinas as Proto-Austrians

One need look no further than the Mises Wire (and Hot H2O History, by proxy) to discover the profound–dare I say providential and as such, inevitable–confluence of the best of Catholic thought and the Austrian school of economics. In dual submissions, Connor Mortell highlights just how much St. Augustine and St. Thomas Aquinas discovered truths…
Read more

To Russia With Love: An Open Letter to Vladimir Putin

Dear Mr. Putin, It was with some considerable alarm today–although I must admit now that it seems foolish to me even as I write it–that I greeted my day with the distinct displeasure of turning on the American cable news networks. How could I expect anything but an admixture of nausea and frustration? Unfortunately, it…
Read more

The Difference Between a Minarchist and an Anarchist…

…used to be, as the joke among anarchists went, about six months. Thanks to the great Michael Malice, it has been reduced to the time in which you can get your hands on and read this book. It fills a void. More so, it introduces the thinking and worldviews of the most consequential and persuasive…
Read more

Anatomy of a Disagreement

Why I am an anarcho-capitalist is summarized in this fantastic episode of the Human Action Podcast, hosted by the ineffable Jeff Deist with the great Ryan McMaken. To read Murray Rothbard’s Anatomy of the State is to open up a worldview that I can only equate to going on a hot air balloon ride and…
Read more

How to Get Absolutely Pantsed in a Debate–The Impractical Pragmatism of Andy Craig

Whether it was ad hominem attacks, circular logic, post hoc ergo propter hoc or some mixture and variation of several other logical fallacies, Andy Craig (above, right) just got crushed by actual, principled libertarian Dave Smith (above, left) in a debate in which Smith simply deconstructed Craig’s mendacious, slanderous claims about him, and Craig was…
Read more

Fear that Flatlines the Patient: The Rooseveltian Oath= Do All Harm

How weak is a civilization that the free functioning of people and their commerce can be crippled, and perhaps in the end destroyed, by hapless morons parading their power yet simultaneously revealing their incompetence? The backdrop is a manufactured pandemic that pseudo-intellectuals assert–based on flawed World Health Organization numbers–is more virulent and deadly than the…
Read more

Owning the Earthly Goalposts and the Next Frontier

What is the left, left to do? When you own the culture—and everybody knows it, and as conservatives are left to watch the train as it has already left the station–new boundaries have to be drawn, goalposts moved. Progressives still have to be the bold, counter-cultural ones though. Remember when it was audacious to put…
Read more

The Fate of the Future: The Prescience of Murray Rothbard

Already, within a week of the launch of Hot H2O History, two subscribers (special shout-out to one emerging and new convert to libertarianism hailing from Milwaukee) have asked, then inquired, then demanded that I address those who are first being exposed to libertarianism, anarcho-capitalism and Austrian economics by offering something of an introduction to it…
Read more