How painful it is that Rothbard didn’t live to see this day! I hope this hasn’t been posted before, but I was so struck reading the final paragraphs of Rothbard’s Betrayal of the American Right. With just a little Higgs-style modifications (the square brackets), he might as well have been writing this about the Ron Paul Revolution: Just as conservatives and liberals have effectively blended into a consensus to uphold the Establishment, so what America needs now — and can have — is a counter-coalition in opposition to the Welfare-Warfare State. A coalition that would favor the short-term libertarian goals … Continue reading Rothbard on the Ron Paul Revolution