Karen De Coster

SELECTED WRITINGS

Some of my favorite papers, columns, books, articles, etc. on the web.

An Interview With Llewellyn H. Rockwell, Jr.
A GREAT interview with intellectual entrepreneur Llewellyn H. Rockwell, Jr. If you read LewRockwell.com, don’t miss this. SpintechMag.com, May 12, 1999
Smashing the State for Fun and Profit Since 1969
An Interview with the Libertarian Icon Samuel Edward Konkin III.

The Neo-Unionists’ Rope of Sand
Joe Stromberg annihilates the Unionists’ arguments that reject the validity of secession. LewRockwell.com, May 13, 2002
The Great Centralizer: Abraham Lincoln & the War Between the States
I love Tom DiLorenzo’s work on Abraham Lincoln, and this particular piece, from 1998, gave birth to my foray into the study of this ruthless dictator and his wrath upon freedom. The Independent Review, Volume 2, No. 2, Fall 1998

Against Intellectual Property
Stephan Kinsella writes THE piece on why government’s intellectual property laws violate private property rights. Journal of Libertarian Studies, Volume 15, No. 2, Spring 2001
Knowledge, Calculation, Conflict, and Law
I like this because Stephan Kinsella fastidiously chips away at the all-too pervasive fanaticism surrounding the “Hayekian knowledge problem” that tends to dominate the sphere of thinking for hardcore Hayekians. The Quarterly Journal of Austrian Economics, Volume 2, No. 4, Winter 1999
Rothbardian Ethics
Hans Hoppe makes the ultimate case for a simple solution and radical conclusions: Anarchy and State. LewRockwell.com. Also see Bob Murphy and Gene Callahan (a critique) debate Stephan Kinsella (pro-Rothbard) on argumentation ethics. Anti-State.com
Five Essential Libertarian Attitudes
Martin Masse. Quebecoislibre.org

The Anatomy of the State
Murray Rothbard on the evils of the State. Mises.org
Natural Elites, Intellectuals, and the State
Hans-Hermann Hoppe on natural elites and the intellectuals. Mises.org
The Wizards of Ozymandias
Butler Shaffer's reflections on the decline of the State. LewRockwell.com
Catholic Social Teaching and Economic Law
Tom Woods, an historian of Catholic theology, acknowledges why the late Scholastics were right about the market, and why 19th and 20th-century popes have been wrong. LewRockwell.com
A Biblical Defense of Anarcho-Capitalism
A Calvinist argument against the State
Jesus is an Anarchist
James Redford.

Conscience on the Battlefield
Leonard E. Read's great pamphlet written during the Korean War. LewRockwell.com
Libertarian Just War Theory
Wendy McElroy on the Just War concept for libertarians.

The Renaissance Myth
James Franklin argues that the "Renaissance" was a period when thought declined significantly, bringing to an end a period of advance in the late Middle Ages.

New Deal Nemesis: The "Old Right" Jeffersonians
by Sheldon Richman. The Independent Review, Volume 1, Number 2, Fall 1996