1,549 works, 150 years of economic thought. Each one summarized and searchable, with cited passages inside.
This file is a single short polemical chapter/essay from Rothbard’s Making Economic Sense, focused narrowly on the UN’s 1994 population agenda and, more broadly, on what Rothbard sees as the statist logic behind international “population control.” It is not a demographic treatise; it is an ideological intervention, moving from distrust of UN conferences, to critique of population-control premises, to a retrospective on Zero Population Growth, to a libertarian diagnosis of poverty.
“Race! That Murray Book” is a brief 1994 polemical essay occasioned by the controversy over Richard Herrnstein and Charles Murray’s The Bell Curve. Rothbard treats the book less as a new empirical discovery than as a cultural event: for him, its importance lies in making public discussion of race, intelligence, heredity, and group differences suddenly permissible after decades of taboo. The essay’s organizing claim is that the controversy exposed a broader system of intellectual policing by liberal, left, and egalitarian institutions.
This file is a brief December 1994 polemical essay. Rothbard’s central thesis is that the modern left should be understood less as secular humanist than as a political-religious movement: a secularized, statist, egalitarian postmillennialism seeking to build a coercive “Kingdom of God on Earth.” The essay proceeds by first redefining the left’s spiritual genealogy, then locating that genealogy in northern Protestant and Methodist reform culture, and finally applying it to Hillary Clinton as the ideological embodiment of the Clinton administration.
This short 1994 polemical essay is a topical column on the Lillehammer Winter Olympics, the Tonya Harding–Nancy Kerrigan scandal, and the political meaning Rothbard draws from sports culture. Its scope is not athletic analysis in a narrow sense, but a libertarian-conservative culture-war reading of the Olympics as a site where nationalism, media spectacle, victimology, legalism, and weakened institutional authority converge.
This work is summarized here through its own strongest recoverable passages. The argument should be read as a sustained attempt to define a problem, establish the terms in which that problem can be discussed, and draw out the institutional, historical, or theoretical consequences that follow from those terms.
This file is a single polemical political essay by Murray N. Rothbard, written in June 1994 after Richard Nixon’s death. Its scope is not a balanced biography of Nixon but a libertarian attack on presidential memorial culture, media rehabilitation, bipartisan state worship, and the conservative canonization of a president whom Rothbard regards as fundamentally statist.
This file is a short single-author policy essay. Sennholz writes in a classical-liberal and libertarian register, treating crime as both an economic burden and a symptom of political disorder. Its central thesis is that the official cost of crime is radically understated because statistics count offenses but miss fear, lost activity, defensive expenditures, and the diversion of police and courts toward regulatory enforcement rather than protection of life and property.
This file is a single-author political-economic essay/chapter. Rothbard uses the Clinton administration’s gun-control proposals as a compact case study in state intervention, arguing that regulation presented as public safety actually operates through taxation, coercive licensing, reduced supply, and cartelization. The essay’s scope is narrow—a dispute over federal firearms licensing fees—but Rothbard treats it as exemplary of a broader political economy: the welfare state expands through alliances between ideological reformers and protected business interests.
This file is a short 1994 political-theological polemic, reprinted as a standalone Rothbard essay. Its scope is expansive: a genealogy from medieval millenarian Christianity to Clinton-era liberalism. The occasion is liberal alarm over the “religious” or “Christian” right, but Rothbard reverses the charge. The real threat, he argues, is the “Religious Left”: a postmillennial effort to build a perfected kingdom on earth through collectivism, egalitarianism, vanguard rule, and coercion.
Rothbard’s essay reads New York’s 1994 elections as a study in political machinery: ballot rules, fusion parties, ethnic blocs, patronage, abortion politics, and the routine conversion of principle into leverage. The governor’s race is central, but the wider statewide ticket matters because every office becomes part of the same bargaining system. His opening institutional point is ballot access, since convention thresholds and petition requirements let party organizations decide who is viable.
This file is a single-author political essay and strategic memorandum. Written one week after the 1994 Republican sweep, it interprets the midterms as a “November Revolution” against Clintonism and the Leviathan state. Rothbard dismisses anti-incumbency and anti-Congress explanations, stressing that Republican incumbents survived and that the revolt extended through governors and legislatures. The mandate, as he reads it, is both economic and cultural:
On the positive side, the public is vigorously and fervently affirming its desire to re-limit and de-centralize government; to increase individual and community liberty; to reduce taxes, mandates, and government intrusion; to return to the cultural and social mores of pre-1960s America, and perhaps much earlier than that.
This short polemical essay, a chapter from Making Economic Sense, is a single argumentative intervention by Murray N. Rothbard. Its scope is fiscal and institutional: Rothbard attacks reform proposals that promise immediate relief while leaving the coercive structure of government intact or even strengthening it. The essay’s animating thesis is that conservatives and free-market economists betray their own best method when they chase politically attractive “fixes” without tracing indirect consequences.