Murray N. Rothbard

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  April 2014

  Repudiating the Debt

  Since Reagan, however, intellectual political life has gone topsy-turvy. Conservatives and allegedly “free-market” economists have turned handsprings trying to find new reasons why “deficits don’t matter,” why we should all relax and enjoy the process.

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• Vital Signs

  July 2001

  Repudiating the National Debt

  Before the Reagan era, conservatives were clear about how they felt about deficits and the public debt: a balanced budget was good, and deficits and the public debt were bad, piled up by free-spending Keynesians and socialists, who absurdly proclaimed that there was nothing wrong or onerous about the public debt.

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  July 1995

  Sweet Land of Liberty

  I am deeply honored to receive the Richard Weaver Award, to stand in the ranks of the distinguished men who have received it, and to have an award in the name of a man who has always been one of my heroes.

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  October 1994

  Sanctions: War on the Cheap

  The modern weapon of "sanctions" seems made-to-order for the foreign policy of Bill Clinton. Remarkably evasive and unprincipled even for a modern politician, Clinton is possessed of a horror of commitment in both his personal and his political life.

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  August 1994

  Life in the Old Right

  One problem with labeling ideological movements "old" or "new" is that inevitably, with the passage of time, the "new" becomes an "old" and the markers get confusing. In the modern, post-World War II right wing, there have been a number of "news" and hence "olds" over the past half-century.

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Latest by Murray N. Rothbard in ITO

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  October 30, 2018

  Birthright Citizenship: Should We Keep It?

  One vexing current problem centers on who becomes the citizen of a given country, since citizenship confers voting rights.

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