He is a retired Major General of the Bundeswehr and has published several editions of this book, with the most recent being an expanded 12th edition published in 2026.
The book argues that responsibility for the outbreak of the Second World War should not be attributed solely to Germany and Adolf Hitler. Schultze-Rhonhof contends that the diplomatic and political actions of several states—including Poland, Britain, France, the Soviet Union, Italy, and the United States—contributed to the circumstances leading to war in 1939. He bases his argument on diplomatic documents, memoirs, and government records from multiple countries.
Jeremy R. Hammond, “How to Respond to the Zionist Hoax of a Peopleless Palestine,” jeremyrhammond.com (Jul 14, 2026). Jeremy R. Hammond is an independent journalist exposing mainstream propaganda that serves to manufacture consent for criminal government policies. Sign up for his newsletters at JeremyRHammond.com. Originally published at JeremyRHammond.com (Jul 14, 2026). Reprinted with permission.
How to Respond to the Zionist Hoax of a Peopleless Palestine
To this day, defenders of Israel’s crimes recycle the tired myth that Palestinians aren’t native to Palestine. Here are the facts to confront them with.
Palestinian refugees fleeing Palestine for Lebanon, October 1948 (Source: PalestineRemembered.com)
The world has a huge problem. Since before the creation of the self-described “Jewish state” in 1948, a violent conflict has been ongoing between Zionist Jews and Palestinians, the destabilizing influence of which extends throughout the Middle East and beyond.
The word libertarian appears to have been first used around 1800 or so in the political/liberalism sense (as opposed the philosophical sense having to do with free will). I initially thought the first use was from 1802. In a short piece critiquing a poem by “the author of Gebir,” in The British Critic (1802), p. 432, the author (I cannot easily make out his name) writes:
The author’s Latin verſes, which are rather more intelligible than his Engliſh, mark him for a furious Libertarian (if we may coin ſuch a term) and a zealous admirer of France, and her liberty, under Bonaparte; ſuch liberty!—For inſtance: …
The author’s Latin verses, which are rather more intelligible than his English, mark him for a furious Libertarian (if we may coin such a term), and a zealous admirer of France, and her liberty, under Bonaparte; such liberty!–For instance …1
I have sometimes said yeah, I’m a furious libertarian! Great name for a magazine!
But has also been claimed that libertarian was first used in the political sense around 1796: [continue reading…]
From the vault: Murray N. Rothbard, “Iran and Korea: The Ominous Parallels” (p. 9), in the Reflections section, Liberty (September 1988): —. This issue also contains Rothbard, “Taking Libertarianism Seriously” and also includes Hans Hoppe’s significant article “The Ultimate Justification of the Ethics of Private Property,” which inspired a symposium in the next issue and much scholarly commentary and controversy over the following 28 years, which continues to this day.1
Guest post by Lipton Matthews. First published July 13, 2026. Reprinted with permission of the author. See related links at the end.
The Forgotten Sin: America’s Treatment of Germans
Lipton Matthews
Memorial stone for the Prisoner-of-War Camp Rheinberg 1945. Courtesy of Wikimedia Commons.
Americans are routinely called upon to reckon with the darkest chapters of their history. The institution of slavery, Jim Crow laws, and the internment of Japanese Americans during World War Two: these are subjects of documentaries, school curricula, museum exhibitions, and public apology. That reckoning, however uncomfortable, is broadly accepted as necessary. Yet there is one group whose treatment at American hands is almost never inserted into this conversation: the Germans. Their suffering and the systematic violation of their property rights by the United States government has been quietly buried beneath a triumphalist narrative of American liberation, and it is long past time that burial was disturbed. [continue reading…]
From the vault: from PFS member JayantBhandari, “Twenty Observations on Liberty and Society,” Liberty (March 2007): 33–37, 53: “Jayant Bhandari warns that totalitarian government is only a symptom of the real enemy: totalitarian culture.” As he notes here:
In this article, I argue that totalitarian government is usually a symptom of something deeper: a totalitarian culture. Political institutions emerge from the moral assumptions, habits, and expectations of the people, and removing a dictator or importing democratic institutions cannot create liberty where respect for the individual is absent.
Drawing on my experiences in India and the West, I examine how coercion reproduces itself through families, schools, bureaucracy, social hierarchies, and political life. I also warn that the West is weakening the cultural foundations that once sustained its freedom.
19 years ago I wrote this article for Stephen Cox. The Liberty later ceased to exist. Thanks to @NSKinsella for salvaging the old issues. At least one univ. prof. in the US used this article for class discussions. I had lost the link but now it is live. https://t.co/IFXD6IBjwW
When I was active in the Libertarian Party, I was a notorious advocate of pure and consistent principles and candidates, and I was the scourge of all deviationists. And yet, now that I am moving toward the Republican Party, I seem not to be mentioning, much less insisting upon, pure libertarian candidates. Isn’t that a contradiction, or have I “mellowed” with maturity?
The answer: of course, I haven’t mellowed. The very thought is an insult. Neither is it a contradiction, if one thinks for a moment about the purpose of political action. The main point of having a Libertarian Party was to promote libertarian ideas in the political sphere. Purity and consistency were extremely important, because if you’re flying the libertarian flag, and begin to abandon or waffle on principle, you are counter-productive, and you viciously undercut libertarian doctrine, the very point of having a Libertarian Party in the first place. After all, what’s the point of having a crazy third party, if you’re simply going to offer modified Republican or Democratic or conservative or whatever doctrine? [continue reading…]
From Grok: This is an early formulation of Hoppe’s critique of democracy (one-man-one-vote + free entry into government as a machinery of redistribution, tragedy of the commons in politics, time-preference effects, family destruction via welfare, etc.).
These ideas were greatly expanded into his major book, Democracy: The God That Failed (Transaction Publishers, 2001). Hoppe has explicitly noted that the book grew out of his 1990s RRR-era writings and conference speeches. Many chapters trace back to that period’s output. The book systematically develops the arguments previewed in the 1996 RRR piece (and related talks). Related later collections (The Great Fiction, Economy, Society, and History) also contain overlapping or expanded essays on democracy, redistribution, and the state.
German businessman and author Rainer Zitelmann has published his first novel (after more than 30 nonfiction pro-capitalism books) entitled 2075: When Beauty Became a Crime. The early reviews I’ve read make it sound quite prescient — I believe the Left will inevitably criminalize this gross affront to human equality! Here’s one review. Any Rothbardian who hears of this book will probably think of Murray’s “Egalitarianism as a Revolt Against Nature.” I don’t know if this is where Mr. Zitelmann got the idea for the book, but it should be read or re-read along with it.
This piece is similar to Hoppe, “The Future of Liberalism. A Plea for a New Radicalism, Polis, 3,1 (1998). The core argument—classical liberalism’s fatal error was accepting the state as a territorial monopolist of law/protection/taxation, making limited government impossible and leading to its own destruction via democracy and social democracy—was substantially revised and included as ch. 11 of Democracy: The God That Failed (Transaction, 2001).
After some problems, not to speak of the whole Mark Skousen debacle, the venerable Foundation for Economic Education (FEE) seems to be on the right track.
But an interesting PC episode has been on my mind recently. The November 1996 issue of The Freeman contained a Book Review (2; 3) by Hans-Hermann Hoppe of The Failure of America’s Foreign Wars (edited by Richard M. Ebeling and Jacob G. Hornberger).
From the vault: Murray N. Rothbard, various entries in the Reflections section, Liberty (July 1988): 9–13.
The Libertarian family and entrepreneurship—In the letter column of Liberty (May 1988), Dagny Sharon threatens (albeit somewhat ironically) to leave the libertarian movement. Now, certainly everyone has the moral right to leave the movement, and I’m sure that most of us, in moments of despair or disgust, have been tempted to do the same. But I am interested in her stated reasons, which I think are typical of many who have suffered from similar “burnout.” The trigger was a gently ironic review by Mike Holmes of her Free Market Yellow Pages (“Libertariana,” Liberty, Dec 1987), which actually pulled the punches of the criticisms he might have levelled at the publication. But apparently the very fact that criticism of Ms. Sharon was made was almost enough to send her reeling “out of the movement.” [continue reading…]
What we are seeing these last weeks in Indochina is, for libertarians, a particularly exhilirating experience: the death of a State. or rather two States: Cambodia and South Vietnam. The exhiliration stems from the fact that here is not just another coup d’etat, in which the State apparatus remains virtually intact and only a few oligarchs are shuffled at the top. Here is the total and sudden collapse – the smashing – of an entire State apparatus, its accelerating and rapid disintegration. Of course, the process does not now usher in any sort of libertarian Nirvana, since another bloody State is in the process of taking over. But the disintegration remains, and offers us many instructive lessons. [continue reading…]
From the vault: Murray N. Rothbard, “Freedom is for Everyone (Including the despised ‘Rightists’),” Liberty (March 1988): 43–44. This was a counterpoint to John Dentinger, “Strange Bedfellows: Libertarian/Conservative Misalliance,” Liberty (March 1988): 37–42.
The first two chapters—my “Preface” and Hans’s “Introduction”—were published the week of Rothbard’s birthday here on the Property and Freedom Podcast (PFP315 and PFP314). The other main chapters will be released sequentially weekly on Mondays. The next in the queue:
100 Years with Rothbard was held two weekends ago in beautiful Porto, Portugal, on Saturday, June 27, 2026, featuring and attended by a number of PFS members, including Professor Hoppe and Gülçin Imre Hoppe, Stephan Kinsella, Saifedean Ammous, Thomas Jacob, Greg and Joy Morin, and Alessandro and Domitia Fusillo. From the PFS side, Hoppe, Kinsella, and Ammous spoke at the conference, along with many other wonderful speakers (program). It was a wonderful event, attended by hundreds from Portugal and many other countries. Below is my report of the event, along with some photos of the event. [continue reading…]
U.S. Senator Lindsey Graham (R-Tel Aviv) has passed away. R.I.P. Senator Graham. Netanyahoo is mourning the loss of “one of Israel’s greatest friends.”
Whenever I heard Senator Graham speak on American television it reminded me of Murray Rothbard’s sarcastic quip that the U.S. government should just invade all the other countries of the world at once and get “it” out of its system. This always seemed to be Graham’s career goal as the understudy of the odious John McCain, the giddy warmongering monster who used to sing “Bomb, bomb, bomb, bomb bomb Iran” to the tune of the old Beachboys tune “Barbara Ann.”
With all the focus on tariffs and trade deficits, ostensibly imposed to bring jobs back into the United States, it may be time to examine the imbalances created by the production of international security. American taxpayers suffer an overwhelming disparity from subsidizing security outside the jurisdiction of the United States relative to risks to their domestic tranquility. Alleviating the burden of foreign security assistance, protecting shipping lanes, and other international interventions is an underappreciated field for balancing accounts between relative tax-payers and tax-consumers.
The often-heard complaint of “shipping jobs overseas” while domestic manufacturing and production languish only looks at one manifestation of the political manipulation of international trade. Economist Murray Rothbard decried the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) as not only favoring politically connected “Big Businesses” at the expense of average market players, but also acting as a vehicle for cartelizing industries and entrenching a government led interventionist economy. For Rothbard and other free market advocates, international agreements are not merely about domestic jobs and trade balances but about subjecting all economic affairs to political control. [continue reading…]
More evidence that the US has used its global dominance after WWII, where it imposed the dollar on the world, enabling it to export its inflation to the rest of the world, in effect enabling US deficit financing and thus supporting and paying for the US military to be the world’s policeman. The US is basically now a mercenary army, like a mafia extracting protection money to supports its military to “protect” and control the rest of the world. So it’s a bit grating and ironic when Trump complains that the US saves and bails out the rest of the world and NATO, when the truth is the US welfare-warfare empire, American citizens and taxpayers but especially the defense industry, is in effect paid for by inflationary tribute from the rest of the world. (Something similar is the case with US IP law: the draconian world’s IP laws, mainly patent and copyright, are imposed on the rest of the world via American IP Imperialism, mainly for the benefit of US Pharmaceutical companies (patent) and Hollywood and the music industry (copyright).)1[continue reading…]
From the Vault. By PFS member David Dürr. Translated from David Dürr, “Fremde Richter: Wie befangen sind staatliche Gerichtsorgane?”, eigentümlich frei (25 July, 2014) (originally published in Basler Zeitung). Eigentümlich frei (“peculiarly free”) is a German magazine edited by André F. Lichtschlag. Other Dürr articles at eigentümlich frei.
Foreign Judges How Biased Are State Judicial Organs?
David Dürr | July 25, 2014
What exactly is the argument against foreign judges? I, for one, do not know. As far as I am concerned, a judge can be foreign. In fact, it might even have advantages. Being an outsider means they are not overly entangled in the domestic squabbles of the litigating parties, which might offer an even better guarantee of objectivity and impartiality. [continue reading…]
From the vault: Murray N. Rothbard’s review of a libertarian cookbook, Libertarian Cooking: Rabble-Rousing Recipes from Assorted Libertarian Luminaries, Marty Zupan and Lou Villadsen, eds. Santa Monica, CA: Marty Zupan, 1987, 96pp., $8.95, Liberty (December, 1987): 23–25.
I cannot find the book online (if anyone has a copy please contact me), and Wikipedia and Tyler Cowen’s review (below) indicate the actual title is Liberated Cooking: Rabble-Rousing Recipes from Assorted Libertarian Luminaries.
From the Vault. By PFS member David Dürr. Translated from David Dürr, “Ein Hoch auf die Schmuggler!,” eigentümlich frei (23 Oct. 2025). Eigentümlich frei (“peculiarly free”) is a German magazine edited by André F. Lichtschlag. Other Dürr articles at eigentümlich frei.
A Toast to the Smugglers! The 2025 Continental Blockade and Its Heroes
David Dürr | August 19, 2025
Today, there is good news from our statist valley of tears. A new breed of courageous heroes is emerging, taking on considerable risks to shield us from state overreach: the smugglers.
Long ago, at the dawn of the nineteenth century, smugglers played an equally heroic role. This was most prominent during the Continental Blockade, which Napoleon imposed against England to prevent his cross-Channel adversary from doing business in continental Europe. This embargo enticed clever adventurers to discover loopholes and secret routes to smuggle British goods into Europe. Demand was soaring, supply was choked by the blockade, and prices rose accordingly. As the narrative goes, some well-organized smugglers amassed such fortunes that their descendants continue to live off them to this day. Yet, the British also profited by successfully selling their merchandise, as did European consumers whose demands were finally met. A genuine win-win-win outcome, brought about by these smuggling heroes. [continue reading…]
Faith Seeking Freedom: Libertarian Christian Answers to Tough Questions (Libertarian Christian Institute Press, 2010; Amazon) is an important book written several of my Christian libertarian friends.1 All four of the authors are intelligent, well-read, articulate, and principled libertarians. As my endorsement my notes:
Achieving liberty will require enlightening our fellow men about its eternal truths. The contributors to this volume, Christians who are also principled and articulate libertarians, argue for a more libertarian interpretation of Christian teachings, and seek to explain to fellow Christians and other people of faith the glory and morality of liberty in terms they will already relate to. Liberty is ultimately about peace, love, and cooperation, which is a message that can appeal to the 2.4 billion Christians on the planet. This is a big potential audience. This is an important book and undertaking.
The only controversy between Rothbard and [R.W.] Bradford [editor and publisher of Liberty] during this time appears to be over Rothbard’s steadfast adherence to the libertarian non-aggression principle. Bradford had written an article (under one of his pen names) in the second issue of Liberty in defense of Robert Nozick in which he criticized “moralistic” libertarians and a libertarianism based on “the morality of non-initiation of force.”2 Rothbard replied in the next issue.3 Bradford responded to Rothbard’s reply and to the criticism of others in the following issue.4 There he accused Rothbard of not addressing his “central argument that the nonaggression axiom is unsatisfactory as a basis for libertarian theory.” This was followed by Bradford’s “The Two Libertarians” in the May 1988 issue.5 There he advocated a “consequentialist” libertarian position contrary to Rothbard’s “moralist” libertarianism. Although a major rebuttal to this was penned by Sheldon Richman in the September 1988 issue,6 there was nothing forthcoming from Rothbard.
Ethan O. Waters [R.W. Bradford], “Reflections on the Apostasy of Robert Nozick,” in the “Living With The State” feature, Liberty (September-October, 1987): 14–17. [↩]
Rothbard, “Libertarians In a State-Run World,” Liberty (December, 1987): 23–25, also responding to Nathan Wollstein, “The Dilemma of the Gladiators Nathan Wollstein,” in the “Living With The State” feature, Liberty (September-October, 1987): 13–14. [↩]
Ethan O. Waters [R.W. Bradford], “Libertarians, Moralism, and Absurdity,” Liberty (March, 1988): 14–15. [↩]
Ethan O. Waters, “The Two Libertarianisms” (May, 1988, p. 7). See also Sheldon Richman, “The One Libertarianism” (September, 1988, p. 53), Waters, “The Two Libertarianisms Again” (September, 1998, p. 56); Waters, “The Two Libertarianisms, Again: What Is Wrong With Richman” (September, 1988). Bradford, “The Old Liberty and the New” (February, 1999), p.23, at p.26 n. 1, says, “For a more detailed discussion of the two schools of libertarian thought, see [the Waters and Richman pieces noted above,] David Boaz, Libertarianism: A Primer (pp. 82-87); and “On The Duty of Natural Outlaws to Shut Up,” by Murray N. Rothbard (New Libertarian, April 1985, pp. 10-11) [“On the Duty of Natural Outlaws to Shut Up” [note: the Mises Institute version linked mangled the title, as can be seen in The New Libertarian, Vol. IV #13 — April, 1985 (pdf)] One issue, November, 1998, promised “Virkkala, ‘The Many Libertarianisms,’” but I cannot find it in the Nov. 1998 issue or elsewhere. —SK [↩]
They have no right to whine. If anything, Gordon’s review omitted the real problem with the book: it pretends to be in favor of free speech, freedom of the press, and the First Amendment, even though Objectivists support state censorship of thought, i.e. copyright. Consider: Ayn Rand’s The Fountainhead glorifies IP-terrorism—Roark dynamiting Cortlandt Homes, someone else’s property, because they “stole” his “IP.”2 Well suck it up, Buttercup! I know you hate competition, but too bad.3 As Benjamin Tucker said, if you want to your ideas to yourself, keep them to yourself!4
And consider Rand’s ridiculous claims that:
Patents are the heart and core of property rights.
Intellectual property is the most important field of law.5
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