India’s Farming Reform: A Lesson in Interest Group Politics
India's farmers have been demonstrating in response to the government's decision to liberalize the agricultural sector. Though economists note that these measures will boost the incomes of farmers, it is unsurprising that the protests have received immense support. Unlike corporate
The Drive for State and Federal Protective Tariffs in Early America
[Chapter 3 of Rothbard's newly edited and released Conceived in Liberty, vol. 5, The New Republic: 1784–1791.] Every depression generates a clamor among many groups for special privileges at the expense of the rest of society—and the American depression that struck
“Weapons of Mass Destruction”: The Last Refuge of the Global Interventionist
The threat of “nuclear proliferation” remains one of the great catch-all reasons—the other being “humanitarian” intervention—given for why the US regime and its allies ought to be given unlimited power to invade foreign states and impose sanctions at any given
The Idea of Secession Isn’t Going Away
Secession is a four-letter word for the millions of Americans who have gone through the conventional educational pipeline that teaches them that the American state is indivisible and sacrosanct. However, intellectually honest historians whose minds haven’t been warped by educational institutions know