Today, March 2nd, 2026, would have been the great Murray Rothbard’s 100th birthday!
In celebration, I decided to talk a little bit about one of his essays that I think is exceptionally good at describing the proper mindset of Rothbardian Anarchocapitalism.
Just finished reading a short book from the Tenth Amendment Center, by Michael Boldin and Michael Maharrey. It’s about some of the Anti-Federalist essays that came between the constitutional convention and ratification.
Of course, the Anti-Federalists are barely covered in public school curricula, but they had some very good arguments and several dire predictions that came true.
My notes here.
Arch is kind of fun to listen to sometimes. I don’t play a lot of tabletop games, so I learn quite a bit about sorry state of the industry from him. Even his takes on other topics are usually pretty even-handed and intelligent. He also scores really low on the authoritarianism scale.
I’ve been hearing commentators, most notably Sargon of Akkad and Nick Fuentes, saying we need to “give up on the free market.” But we haven’t had anything like a free market for over a hundred years, and what have we gotten for it?
Full show notes here.
Lew Rockwell explains “Why I Won’t Be Mourning Dick Cheney.”
I could elaborate on what Lew says but it might be legally actionable.
Now we have a second mayor threatening people with State-owned grocery stores… how does nobody understand the very obvious consequences of such a policy?!
A short and (attempted) humorous look at this phenomenon.
Trying to expand upon a really good article by William L. Anderson at the Mises Institute: “Yes, Heather Cox Richardson Is Economically Illiterate – And Proud of It”
Bill notes how using wealth inequality as a measure for economic health is a major problem. I talk about his conclusions and try to expand on them a bit.
Just a few somewhat tongue-in-cheek thoughts brought on by the recent mayoral election in New York City.
Lemmings don’t actually commit mass suicide, so why is it so easy to convince people to do it? Is the siren song of “free stuff” so overpowering that it makes us dumber than lemmings?
Now that we’ve seen Locke’s framework and Rousseau’s twisted, totalitarian version of it, I’m going to lay out seven actions taken by governments that Locke would allow, but which spell doom for any government that would actually serve the people.
Inspired by the October 22, 2025 episode of the Tenth Amendment Center’s Path to Liberty
https://blog.tenthamendmentcenter.com/2025/10/even-the-law-isnt-above-the-law/
Bringing together two quotes from James Wilson, from his Speech to the Pennsylvania Convention on Nov. 24, 1787:
https://teachingamericanhistory.org/document/speech-to-the-pennsylvania-convention/
and his Lectures on Law:
https://contextus.org/James_Wilson’s_Lectures_on_Law_(1789_to_1791)%2C_Part_1%2C_Chapter_I_Introductory_Lecture_Of_The_Study_Of_The_Law_In_The_United_States.64?lang=en&with=all&lang2=en