Articles by Ira Katz

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The Other Viennese Libertarian

Ira Katz on Stefan Zweig.

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1/5/2019

The Need for Borders

In all areas. Article by Ira Katz.

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10/29/2018

A French Summer Vacation

Ira Katz on civilization and ex-civilization.

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8/30/2018

Progress

The road to Utopia or Dystopia? Article by Ira Katz.

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7/2/2018

Characteristics of an Aggressive Imperialist Culture

Ira Katz on WW1 and now.

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5/15/2018

French Humor Exists

And it’s libertarian. Ira Katz on Balzac.

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5/10/2018

Is Libertarianism Catholic?

Yes, says Ira Katz.

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3/20/2018

Is All Great Art Religious?

Ira Katz writes as an abecedarian.

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1/5/2018

My Bibliophilia

Shrinks call love of books a disorder. It’s the opposite, of course, says Ira Katz.

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12/27/2017

The Murder of Dr. Campbell: A Lesson for Today

Ira Katz on G.K. Chesterton.

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12/6/2017

The Jewish Scholastic

Ira Katz on Murray Rothbard.

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11/23/2017

Hero of the Right

Ira Katz on anti-PC Prof. Jordan Peterson.

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9/4/2017

Equality ≠ Equal Quality

Ira Katz on leftist baloney.

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7/21/2017

The Good, the Sad, and the Ugly

Ira Katz on the life and significance of Mises.

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1/28/2017

French Thrillers

Influenced by JFK. Article by Ira Katz.

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1/17/2017

How Bad Can It Get?

Ira Katz on the past as possible prologue.

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9/8/2016

European Civilization

Ira Katz takes a road rip. (While it’s still all there? ed.).

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9/3/2016

The Physics of Life

And the physics of freedom. Article by Ira Katz.

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6/29/2016

My Investment in Heaven

Ira Katz is a saver, but Keynesian central banks penalize this heroic practice.

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4/28/2016

Franz Oppenheimer’s The State Is Superb

Except for the conclusion, says Ira Katz.

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4/18/2016

Never Trust the Government

You’re far better off with random people in a nice bar, says Ira Katz.

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2/23/2016

Living in France

And reading in Paris. Article by Ira Katz.

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11/12/2015

Gore Vidal’s ‘Empire’

Ira Katz on what it tells us about the American past and future.

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9/12/2015

Why I Moved to France

And love it. Article by Ira Katz.

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10/10/2014

Beware a Regime That Demands To Know Your Foreign Assets

It’s totalitarian. Article by Ira Katz.

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9/23/2014

How To Be an Historical Revisionist

Read this great detective novel, says Ira Katz.

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8/21/2014

Accurate American History

Ira Katz on Flashman.

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8/5/2014

Who Writes History?

And what libertarians can learn from them. Article by Ira Katz.

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4/3/2014

What Is the Value of the State?

Ira Katz on the Jewish thought of Yeshayahu Leibowitz.

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3/6/2014

Economics and Empires

And their sophists. Article by Ira Katz.

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1/13/2014

The Case for Ron Paul

To another Paul.

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5/2/2013

I Am Thirsty But I Cannot Drink

Did the police help?

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2/19/2013

Evil in Fact and Fiction

Sometimes only movies tell the truth, says Ira Katz. Movies and LRC, that is.

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10/8/2012

Jews, Catholics, Jewish Catholics

Ira Katz on Mises, old Vienna, and the Mises Institute.

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10/1/2011

Another TSA Crime: Word Disfiguration

Ira Katz on Orwellian lingo.

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6/4/2011

Was Edgar Allen Poe an Austro-Libertarian?

Ira Katz on the case of The Purloined Letter.

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9/18/2010

The Old Sleight of Hand

It's losing its effectiveness for the ruling class, in France and the US, says Ira Katz.

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8/9/2010

Understanding the War-Economic Future

Ira Katz on your three best sources of info.

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1/5/2010

The Ratio of Propagandists to Real Economists

1000: 1, says Ira Katz.

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6/29/2009

The Wall Street Address

Unlike Abe's famous diatribe, this one rings true.

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10/9/2008

Dante on the Crisis

Ira Katz on government Hell.

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10/1/2008

Antiwar Literature

Ira Katz on three great and unknown examples.

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7/24/2008

It Didn’t Start With Bush

Ira Katz on the decline of the Old Right.

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4/26/2008

What’s in a Name?

In an age of decadence, anyway.

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1/14/2008

Crackpots?

Ira Katz on Paul, DiLorenzo, and… Borges.

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12/29/2007

A Libertarian in the Wilderness

France.

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5/2/2007

Christianity, Conservatism, and Libertarianism

Notes on some recent reading, from Ira Katz.

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9/13/2006

Becoming an Ex-Pat

Ira Katz on loving and leaving the USA.

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7/5/2006

Living in Paris

And working in Versailles.

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5/3/2006

State-Sponsored Death

Shouldn't we be at least wary of it?

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2/11/2006