The State Has Typically Been

Scratch An Egalitarian, And You Will Inevitably Find A Statist.

What Do Intellectuals And Opinion Makers Get From Big Government? An Increasing Number Of Cushy Jobs In The Bureaucracy, Or In The Government-subsidized Sector, Staffing The Welfare Regulatory State, And Apologizing For Its Policies, As Well As Propagandizing For Them Among The Public. To Put It Bluntly, Intellectuals, Theorists, Pundits, Media Elites, Etc. Get To Live A Life Which They Could Not Attain On The Free Market, But Which They Can Gain At Taxpayer Expense.

The Great Non Sequitur Committed By Defenders Of The State, Is To Leap From The Necessity Of Society To The Necessity Of The State.

No One May Threaten Or Commit Violence ('aggress') Against Another Man's Person Or Property. Violence May Be Employed Only Against The Man Who Commits Such Violence; That Is, Only Defensively Against The Aggressive Violence Of Another. In Short, No Violence May Be Employed Against A Non-aggressor. Here Is The Fundamental Rule From Which Can Be Deduced The Entire Corpus Of Libertarian Theory.

After The Volcker Fund Collapsed, I Got Another Grant From The Lilly Endowment To Do A History Of The U.s., Which I Worked On From 1962-66. The Original Idea Was To Take The Regular Facts And Put A Libertarian Assessment On Everything.