1,549 works, 150 years of economic thought. Each one summarized and searchable, with cited passages inside.
This file is a single short polemical essay by Murray N. Rothbard, written in October 1992. Its scope is narrow—Bobby Fischer’s return to chess for a match with Boris Spassky in Yugoslavia—but Rothbard uses that episode to mount a broader libertarian and culture-war argument about media discipline, UN sanctions, and ideological conformity.
This file is a single polemical economic essay by Murray N. Rothbard, later collected in Making Economic Sense. Its scope is narrow and topical—the Bush administration’s response to the early-1990s recession—but Rothbard uses that episode to restate a broader Austrian-libertarian critique of Keynesian macroeconomics, central banking, deficit policy, and political management of public confidence.
This file is a short polemical essay by Murray N. Rothbard from Making Economic Sense, focused on presidential-election discourse, media language, recession policy, and federal budgeting. Its central claim is that the “issues” in campaign politics are not neutral topics but media-policed categories: public debate is admitted only when it accepts statist premises about what government must provide and how policy should be discussed.
This short September 1992 political commentary is a polemical essay on the breakup of Czechoslovakia, framed as part of Rothbard’s broader argument for national self-determination and secession. It is a compact intervention in the post-Communist “nationalities question.” Rothbard’s thesis is blunt: Czechoslovakia, like Yugoslavia, was an artificial state created by the Versailles settlement, and its dissolution should be welcomed because it allows subject nationalities—above all the Slovaks—to escape Czech domination.
The supplied file is a single September 1992 polemical political essay, printed within a Rothbard collection rather than presented here as a multi-author volume. Its scope is the 1992 conservative revolt against George H. W. Bush: Rothbard asks why “movement” conservatives who had defended Bush against Pat Buchanan suddenly urged Bush or Quayle to withdraw once Bill Clinton surged.
“Kulturkampf!” is a polemical campaign-era essay that interprets Pat Buchanan’s 1992 Republican Convention speech as the belated public naming of a conflict Rothbard thinks the left had already been waging for decades. Its central claim is not that conservatives have imported culture into politics, but that liberal institutions have already politicized culture through schools, courts, media, therapy, civil-rights enforcement, and rights discourse.
This file is a single-authored polemical essay: a short October 1992 political intervention, later appearing in The Irrepressible Rothbard. Its immediate occasion is the American presidential campaign, but its scope is larger: Rothbard tries to explain why left-liberals, in his view, respond with extraordinary intensity when conservative politics appears not merely to delay progressive causes but to reverse them.
This file is a brief single-author political polemic. Rothbard’s April 1992 essay responds to Max Lerner’s “Civilization Watch” column and uses Lerner as a figure for the interventionist consensus linking FDR-era “collective security,” the Marshall Plan, post-Soviet aid, and U.S. support for Israel. Its main thesis is that Lerner’s appeal to bipartisan foreign-policy responsibility is really a demand for Wilsonian-Hamiltonian statecraft: moralized global management, centralized power, subsidies, and the exclusion of any genuine “America First” alternative.
This file is a single short polemical political-economic essay: chapter 30 from Making Economic Sense. Its scope is Ross Perot’s plan for electronic town meetings, but Rothbard uses that proposal to challenge the legitimacy of representative politics, party government, polling expertise, and establishment fiscal reform. His thesis is that representation was once a technological necessity; once mass direct voting becomes feasible, opposition to it reveals elite fear of popular control.
This file is a short, standalone political-economic essay or chapter. Rothbard’s scope is the public interpretation of the 1980s during the 1992 recession: Democratic moral indictment, Bush Republican excuse-making, and anti-Bush Republican nostalgia for Reagan. His thesis is that all three accounts misplace causality. The decade was not explained by greed, deregulation, or a simple Reagan-versus-Bush tax story; its boom and bust were rooted in the Federal Reserve’s inflationary credit expansion.
This file is a short polemical essay/chapter from Rothbard’s Making Economic Sense, responding to the 1992 Los Angeles riots. Rothbard’s main thesis is that respectable commentary used ritual denunciations of violence to excuse it, then turned riot damage into an argument for more redistribution, subsidies, and urban patronage. His opening move is linguistic: the formula of condemning violence while invoking structural causes, he argues, reverses its apparent moral judgment.
This June 1992 text is a polemical political essay. Rothbard reads two neoconservative attacks on Pat Buchanan and the paleoconservative right—Richard John Neuhaus in First Things and Norman Podhoretz in Commentary—as symptoms of a broader struggle over who controls American conservatism. Its structure is simple: an opening indictment of neoconservative “political correctness,” followed by separate sections on Podhoretz and Neuhaus. Its thesis is that neoconservatives police conservative discourse through accusations of anti-Semitism, racism, nativism, and conspiracy-mindedness, while presenting this policing as moral guardianship.