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Happy 100th Birthday, Murray!

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.

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Rothbard: 1, Fuzzy Language: 0

Ludwig von Mises Institute, CC BY 3.0 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0, via Wikimedia Commons

I’ve just started reading Jonathan Haidt’s The Righteous Mind and I found a lovely example of how fuzzy language obscures what the state is and how it differs from “society.”