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U | V | W | Y | Z
A
Abortion, 131–32
Accreditation of colleges and universities, 170–71
Acton, Lord, 36
Ad Hoc Committee on the Triple Revolution, 302–03
Affluence
as excessive in liberals’ view, 302, 303
Aggression
collective security against, 334–36
Agricultural Adjustment Administration, 351
Agriculture, Department of, 326
Airlines, 91
Albanian-Americans, 187
Alcoholic beverages, 136–37
American Arbitration Association, 277
American Civil Liberties Union, 130
American colonies, 3–8
American Railway Association, 254
Amin, Idi, 362
Anarchy, 274–75See alsoStateless society
Anderson, Martin, 212n,
Anti-Imperialist League, 22–23
Antonik v. Chamberlain, 321
Appeal courts, 280–81
Aquaculture, 314–15
Arbitrators
private, 277–79
Army, 5
involuntary servitude in, 100–01
standing, 101–02See alsoConscription; Militarism; Military-industrial complex; War
Articles of Confederation, 6
Atomic Energy Commission, 327
Atomistic individualists, 33
Automation
hysteria about, 302–03
Automobiles. SeeTraffic congestion
Austrian School of economics, 215–16
business cycle, theory of, 232–40
B
Bail, 109–10
Bailyn, Bernard, 5, 6–7, 10, 102n,
Banfield, Edward C., 168, 187–92
Bangla Desh, 336
Bank credit
business cycle and, 230–40
Bank demand deposits (“checkbook money”), 223–28
Banks (banking system), 94
business cycles and, 229–30
fractional reserve, 222–30See alsoFederal Reserve System
Barnard, Henry, 153
Baron Report, The, 401
Baruch, Bernard, 349
Bateman, Newton, 153
Beard, Charles A., 352
Benton, Thomas Hart, 9
Berlin, University of, 74–75
Big Business, 388–90
Big Government
in nineteenth century, 12
Bill of Rights, 80
Birth control, 131
Black, Charles, 80–83
Black communities
police in, 253–54
Black, Hugo, 115
Bourne, Randolph, 347
Brehm, C.T., 179
Brehons, 289–90
Bright, John, 330
Broadcast media. SeeRadio; Television
Brothels, 130
Brozen, Yale, 196n, 198, 203, 209
Bubb, Frank, 322
Buchanan, James, 172
Buckley, William F., Jr., 368
Burchard, Hank, 260n,
Bundy, McGeorge, 73–74
Business cycle, 228–40
Austrian (Misesian or monetary-overinvestment) theory of, 232–40
recurrence of, 232
Ricardian theory of, 230–32
Businessmen
receptivity to libertarian ideas, 389–90, 391
small, 391
Bussing for racial integration, 161–62
Butler, Maj. Gen. Smedley D., 365
C
Calhoun, John C., 58–59, 64–65, 84
Calvin, John, 150
Carnegie, Andrew, 310
Carter, Jimmy, 400
Capitalism
liberal complaints against, 301–04See alsoFree-market economy
Catholics, 126
abortion and, 131–32See alsoSchools, parochial
“Cato’s Letters” (Trenchard and Gordon), 4–5
Central planning, 247–48
failure of, 396–97
Cigarettes
ban on advertising of, 137
Civil Aeronautics Board (CAB), 198, 319
Civil liberties, 27
Civil obedience, 66
Charity Organisation Society, 182
Checks and balances, system of, 292–93
ancient, 69
Chodorov, Frank, 47
Christy, Francis T., Jr., 316–17
divine right of kings and, 79
separation of State and, 3, 5–6, 14
union of State and, 68
Class, social
taxation and, 64–65See alsoLower class culture; Upper class culture
Class action suits
air pollution and, 321–22, 324
Classical liberals, 2, 7, 10, 15–23, 396
decay of, 17–23
Club of Rome Report, 306–09
Cobden, Richard, 330
Coerced testimony, 106–07
Coercion
taxation and, 30
Cohen, Stephen F., 360–61
Colby, William, 361
Cold War, 344–45
Collective security, 334–35
Colleges
accreditation of, 170–71
trustee-run, 171–72
Colonial America, 3–7
Common law, 283–86, 320, 371–72
Communism (Communist movement)
Cold War and, 344–45
right of self-ownership and, 34–35
schisms in, 359–60See alsoMarxism-Leninism
Concentration camps, 270
Connecticut, 150–51
Conquest
origin of the State by, 78–79
Conscription
as involuntary servitude, 27–29, 98–101
Conservation of resources, 307–17
Conservatism (Conservatives)
military-industrial complex and, 349–51
nineteenth-century, 11–15
pornography and, 127–29
receptivity to libertarian ideas, 388
socialism and, 16
tax cuts and, 384
welfare system criticized by, 192–93
Conspiracy theory of history, 70
Constitution, U.S., 58
Constitutions, written, 58–59
Consumer demand
money supply and, 218
Consumption/investment (or savings)
business cycle and, 233–40
Contempt of court, 110
Contraception, 131
Corporate State, 13
Courts
air pollution and, 320–23
in ancient Ireland, 286–90
appeal, 281
broadcast media and, 123–25
common law, 283–86
enforcement of decisions in a libertarian society, 279–80
legal code and, in a libertarian society, 282–90
private arbitration as alternative to, 277–79
venal and biased, 291–93See alsoJudicial system
Credit expansion. SeeBank credit
in New York City, 245, 249–50, 253–54
society and, 46–47
in the streets, 90
victimless, 27, 129, 138See alsoJudicial system; Juvenile delinquency; Police; Streets, police protection of
Criminals
imprisonment of, 107–09
punishment of, 107–08
restitution to victim by, 55–56, 108
wiretapping of suspected, 133–34
Crisis situations, 392–93
in the United States, 397–400
Crocker, Thomas D., 326n,
Crowther Committee, 168
Cuba, 340
Culture, public welfare and, 187–91
Cycles, business. SeeBusiness cycles
D
Dales, J.H., 326
Day-care centers, 194–96
Death rates, lower-class, 188–89
Declaration of Independence, 4
Defense, national, 295–99
Demand deposits (“checkbook money”), 223–28
Democracy, 15–16
parliamentary, 79–80
Democratic party, 8–9
as classical liberal party, 22
presidential nomination and, 9
Demonstrations, 118–19
Depression, 231–32
in Austrian (Misesian) theory, 235–40See alsoGreat Depression; Recession
Destatization
plans for, 384–86
DeVany, A., 126n,
Devletoglou, Nicos E., 172
Diem, Ngo Dinh, 341
Disarmament, 365–69
Discrimination, 255–56
Divine right of kings, 75–79
Doenecke, Justus D., 343n,
Doeringer, Peter, 190
Dolan, Edwin G., 318
Donahue, Charles, 290n,
Dos Passos, John, 352–53
Drugs, 136–37
Dyckman, John, 260n,
E
Eastern Europe, 397
Soviet policy toward, 357–59
Economic growth
liberal attacks on, 302–07
Economics
Austrian School of, 215–16, 232–40
free-market, 20
Keynesian. SeeKeynesian economics
Economy
classical liberalism and, 2–3
Education, 14–15, 93–94, 145–73
formal schooling confused with, 146–47
libertarian movement and, 373–75, 386–87
“right” to, 164–65See alsoSchools
Emotivists, 30–31
Empire, classical liberals and, 21–22See alsoImperialism
Energy, 310
England
Norman conquest of, 79
private arbitration in, 277–78
private roads in, 264
Ennis, Bruce, 112–13
Equality, 50–51
socialism and, 16
“Essex Junto,” 157–58
Ethnic minorities
public schools and, 151–53
Evolutionism (social Darwinism), 20–21
F
Farm price supports, 197
Fear instilled by State, 71
Federal Bureau of Reclamation, 197
Federal Communication Commission (FCC), 120, 122, 125, 126
Federal Housing Administration, 197
Federalist party, 8
Federal Radio Commission (FRC), 125, 126
Federal Reserve Notes, 223, 227
Federal Reserve System, 223–30
money supply and, 223–28
reserve requirements of, 224
Feudalism, 6
Fifth Amendment
income tax and, 106
Fishing, 314–17
Flynn, John T., 351–52
Forced labor. SeeInvoluntary servitude
Foreign intervention, 329, 330
Foreign policy, 90
American, 338–47
avoiding a priori history and, 362–64
Cold War, 344–46
“collective security” concept and, 334–35
German, 355–58
libertarian, 364–65
limiting government in, 330–38
Soviet, 352–61See alsoImperialism; Isolationism; War
Forest Service, 312
Forests, 311–12
Free contract, 28
Freedom
libertarian definition of, 50
for prostitution, 130–31
Freedom of radio and television, 119–26
Freedom of speech
incitement to riot and, 116
libel and slander and, 116–17
picketing and demonstration and, 118–19
property rights and, 51, 52–53, 85–86
shouting “fire” in a crowded theatre and, 52–53
Freedom of the press
property rights and, 51, 52, 85
radio and television and, 119–20, 121
scholastic freedom and, 157–58
Free exchange, 47–51
Free market
in services and goods currently supplied by government, 241–48
Free-market capitalism
liberal intellectuals’ complaints against, 301–04
Free-market economy, 28, 27–51
business cycle and, 229–30
Friedman, Milton, 31–32, 325–26
“voucher plan” of, 165–66
Future orientation
welfare system and, 187–92
G
Galbraith, John Kenneth, 95, 302
Gambling, 134–36
Garrett, Garet, 345–47
Garrison, William Lloyd, 18, 379–80
Gasoline tax, 258–59
George, Henry, 40
Georgists, 40–42
Germany, 22
compulsory education in, 149
foreign policy of, 355–58
Goodman, Paul, 146–48
Good Samaritans, 144
Gordon, Thomas, 4–5
Gould, Stephen Jay, 21n,
Gouldner, Alvin, 190–91
Government
American Revolution and, 7
“Cato’s Letters” on, 4–5
classes created by, 64–65
distinguished from other institutions, 57–58
Jeffersonian and Jacksonian views of, 8–9
just owner of property as defined by, 35–36
limitations on powers of, 58–59
public schools and, 154–56
services and operations performed by, 241–48See alsoBureaucracy; State
Government bonds, 226–27
Government contracts, 197, 350–51
Government expenditures, 213, 350, 351–52
drastic reduction in, 205
Government securities, 226–27
Grasslands
destruction of, 312–13
Great Britain, 397
classical-liberal movement in, 2–4See alsoEngland
Greece, 358
Green, Arnold W., 46–47
Guaranteed annual income, 209–12
Guerrilla warfare, 336–38
Guilt
the State’s use of, 71–72
Gun laws, 139–44
H
Habit, 68
Hamowy, Ronald, 368
Hansen, W. Lee, 169–70
Harper, F.A., 203–04
Harrington, Michael, 302
Harrison, Gen. William Henry, 9
Harvard study on handguns, 143–44
Hayek, Friedrich A., 215–16, 377–78
Hays, Samuel P., 313
Henry, Patrick, 102
Higginson, Stephen, 158
Highway program, 258–60
Highways, pricing, 258–59, 265
Hill, James J., 310
Historical determinism, 70
History, conspiracy theory of, 70
Holmes, Oliver Wendell, 52
Homesteaders, 41
Homesteading
destruction of grasslands and, 312–13
property rights in airwaves, 124–25
Hoopes, Townsend, 75
Horwitz, Morton J., 320n,
Housing
discrimination in, 255–56
urban, 93
Huber, Ernst, 76
Human nature, 32–33
“Human rights”
property rights and, 51–53
Hume, David, 66
I
Immunity laws, 106–07
Imperialism
classical liberals and, 21–23
defined, 342
United States’, 338–47
Imprisonment, 107–09
Income
guaranteed annual, 209–12
Income distribution
inequality in, 203
Income redistribution
higher education and, 169–70
welfare state and, 196–202
Income taxes, 89
colleges and, 171
negative, 209–12
as regressive, 198–202
withholding, 104–05
Indeterminate sentencing, 113–14
Individual
deprecated by the State, 69–70
society and, 45–47
Industrial Revolution, 11, 395
Infant mortality, 189
Inflation, 94
explanations of, 216–20
money supply and, 218–28See alsoBusiness cycle
Inflationary recession (“stagflation”), 94, 214–15, 216n
Austrian theory of business cycle and, 237–39
Inheritance, 49–50
Institute for Policy Studies, 208
Insurance company detectives, 269–70
Integration, school, 161
Intellectuals
as apologists for the state, 29–30
independent, 77
national security, 73–76
nineteenth-century statist conservatism and, 14–15
the State and, 67–86
Interest rate
business cycle and, 233–35
International affairs. SeeForeign policy; Imperialism; War
Involuntary servitude, 97–114
in the army, 100–02
compulsory commitment of mental patients as, 111–14
conscription as, 399
in judicial and penal systems, 106–10
taxation as, 104–06See alsoSlavery
Ireland, ancient (Celtic), 79, 286–90, 298
Irish immigrants, 189
Irrationality, 14
Isolationism, 329–32, 344–47, 364–65
Italy, 358
J
Jackson, Andrew, 9
Jackson, Jonathan, 158
Jacksonian libertarians, 9
Jacobs, Norman, 69
Jarvis-Gann initiative, 73
Jefferson, Thomas, 8–9
Jeffersonian movement, 8
Judges
common law, 283–86
Roman, 285
selection and appointment of, 276, 285–86
venal and biased, 291–93
Judicial review, 80–84
Judicial system
in ancient Ireland, 286–91
involuntary servitude aspects of, 206–10
in libertarian society, 275–90See alsoCourts; Trial
Jury duty, compulsory, 110
Juvenile delinquency
public schooling and, 168
K
Kates, Don B., Jr., 141–44
Kellems, Vivien, 104–05
Kelsen, Hans, 62–63
Kennan, George F., 74
Kennedy, Joseph P., 344–45
Kenyon, Cecilia, 94
Keynes, Sir John M., 213n, 215, 396
Keynesian economics, 73, 213–14, 350
King, in ancient Ireland, 288
Knapp Commission, 137–38
Kristol, Irving, 180
Ku Klux Klan, 154
L
Labor force, public schools and training of, 167–68
Labor unions
anti-strike laws and, 102–04
public schooling and, 168–69
strikes by, 93
Laissez-faire liberals, 15–20, 31–32
pollution and, 325–26
Land
property rights in, 40–44
Lao-tse, 77
Latin America
conquest of, 79
Law
in ancient Ireland, 287–90
Roman, 285
Legal code
in a libertarian society, 282–90
judiciary and, 80–83
Leoni, Bruno, 283–86
Levasseur, Emile, 45n,
Lewis, Samuel, 152
Libel, 116–17
Liberal Imperialism, 22
Liberal intellectuals
complaints of, 301–04
Liberals (liberal movement), 388–89
classical. SeeClassical liberals)
pornography and, 127–29
Libertarianism (libertarian movement), 1–2
of American Revolution, 5–7
contradictions in rhetoric and, 386
groups receptive to, 388–93
historical context of, x
left utopianism and, 380–82
“left-wing sectarianism” and, 376, 382–83
media and, 390–91
Middle America and, 391
principle and, xi
prospects of, 393–401
“right-wing opportunists” and, 376–77, 383–85
society from point of view of, 45–47
transitional demands of, 383–85
as “utopian” or realistic, 375–86
youth and, 390See also specific topics
Libertarian Party, 1, 133, 384, 401
declaration of strategy by, 385–86
Libertarian theory, 373–75
Licensing, 206–07
of radio stations, 124–26
Liggio, Leonard, 342
Locke, John, 4
on property rights, 37–40, 42–43
“Lower–class” culture
public welfare and, 187–92
Luther, Martin, 149
M
Mandel, Tom, x
McCone Commission, 179
McDermott, John, 148
Mackay, Thomas, 192–93
Macrae, Norman, 306
Maiken, Peter, 326n,
Mann, Horace, 153
Marjorie Webster Junior College, 171
Marx, Karl, 294–95
Marxism-Leninism, 354–55
Massachusetts Bay Colony, 150
Matthew, Thomas, 206–07
Media
libertarian movement and, 391–92
Medical care
urban poor’s attitudes and values and, 188
Meiburg, Charles O., 260n,
Melman, Seymour, 351n,
Mencken, H.L., 8, 69–70, 109n,
Mental patients
compulsory commitment of, 111–14, 309
Merchants’ courts
private, 277–78
Michels, Robert, 61
Militarism, 350–52
classical liberals and, 22
Military-industrial complex, 91, 349–50
Miller, Roger LeRoy, 315–16
MIND, 168
Minh, Ho Chi, 341
Minimum wage laws, 196
Minorities
public schools and, 151–53
Mises, Ludwig von, 151–52, 215–16, 395–96
Molinari, Gustave de, 271–72
Money, “checkbook” SeeDemand deposits
Money supply
business cycle and, 230–31, 238–40
inflation and, 218–28
Federal Reserve System and, 223–28See alsoBank credit; Bank demand deposits
Monopolies
government services as, 244, 247
Moon, Parker T., 45–46
Morgenstern, George, 343–44
Mormon Church
welfare plan of, 183–88
Mowat, Charles Loch, 193
Murphey, Archibald D., 151
N
Narcotics, 136–37
National Association for the Advancement of Colored People, 304n,
National defense, 295–99
National Industrial Recovery Act, 103
National Recovery Administration, 351
National security intellectuals, 73–76
Nationalism, 71
Natural law, 32–33
Natural rights, 19
free-market economy and, 48–49
justice in property rights and, 36
libertarian creed based on, 30–33
property rights based on, 36–45
self–ownership right and, 33–35
Needham, Joseph, 75
NEGRO, 206–07
Neustadt, Richard, 75
Neutrality, 364–65
laws of, 333
“New Left” revisionist historians, 343–44
“New Light” movement, 150–51
New York City, 90, 91, 130, 176–77, 179, 398
off-track betting in, 135
police corruption in, 137–38
water shortages in, 245
New York City Transit Authority, 246–47
Nixon, Richard, 209–10, 211–12, 339See alsoWatergate scandal
Nock, Albert Jay, 62, 148, 348
Noel-Baker, Philip, 367n,
Noise pollution, 322
Nonaggression axiom, 27–30
Norris-LaGuardia Act, 103
North, Douglass C., 315–16
Northside, Brooklyn, 187
North Vietnam, 341–42
Nuclear disarmament, 365–69
O
Ocean resources, 314–17
Oglesby, Carl, 343n,
O’Gorman, Ned, 195
Oligarchic rule, 61
Open market purchases, 224–25
Open range, 312–13
Oppenheimer, Franz, 61–62, 78n,
Oregon, 153–54
P
Paasikivi, Julio, 359
Pakistan, 336
Parking, pricing, 261
Parliamentary democracy, 79–80
Participatory communalism, 34–35
Passell, P., 306
Patriotism, 71
Peaceful coexistence, 331
as Soviet policy, 354–56
Peddling, street, 206
Peden, Joseph R., 287
Philanthropist
capitalist compared to, 203–05
Picketing, 118–19
Pierce v. Society of Sisters, 154
Piore, Michael J., 189–90
Poland, 356
Police
in black communities, 253–54
brutality, 250
corruption, 137–39
railway, 254
wiretapping by, 133–34
Police forces
clashes between, 273–75
outlaw, in a libertarian society, 293–94
Pollution, 317–27
Poole, Robert, Jr., 324
Poor, the
best ways for government to help, 202–09
government services and, 243
income redistribution and, 196–202
police protection for, in a free-market economy, 272–73
taxation system and, 198–202See alsoWelfare System
Population growth
welfare system and, 194
Pornography, 127–29
Postal service, 92
Postal Service, U.S., 92, 197, 246–47
Poverty
liberal worry about, 302
Power
“Cato’s Letters” on, 4–5
libertarian movement and, 387
Power shortages and blackouts, 92
Present-orientation
welfare system and, 187–92
President
Watergate and, 94–95
Prices
money supply and, 218–20
supply/demand relationship and, 219See alsoInflation
Primitive man, 314
Progressives, 15
in airwaves, 119–26
freedom of speech and, 115, 119
”human rights” and, 51–53
justice in, 35–36
in land, 40–43
libertarian theory of, summary of, 43–45, 85–86
in material objects, 37–40, 85
natural-rights position on, 36–45
of producers, 37–40, 43–45, 85
self-ownership, 33–38
Property taxes, 89, 93, 199–200
Property titles
natural rights position on, 37–45
utilitarian position on, 35–36
Prostitution
freedom for, 130–31
Protection, 84–85See alsoPolice protection
Protectionism, 12–13
Public schools (public school system), 14–15, 93–94, 399
in colonial America, 150–51
compulsory attendance at, 145–54, 168–69
ethnic and linguistic minorities and, 151–53
geographical districts of, 160–63
in Germany, 149
integration of, 161–62
juvenile delinquency and, 168
nineteenth-century conservatism and statism and, 14–15
parental control of, 161–62
residential segregation and, 162–63
subsidization of, 163–65
totalitarian nature of compulsory, 159–60
training of labor force and, 167–68
uniformity versus diversity and, 154–63See alsoEducation
Public sector, 241–48
abolition of, 248See alsoGovernment
Publishing industry, 157–58
Q
Quakers, 150
R
Radical libertarianism of American Revolution, 5–7
Radicalism, 19
classical liberals and, 17–18, 19See alsoAbolitionism
Radio
freedom of, 119–26
licensing of, 124–26
Radio Act of 1927, 123–24
Radosh, Ronald, 343n,
Railroads, 91, 252, 254, 257–58
Railway police, 254
Rand, Ayn, 388
Range lands
public-domain, 312–13
Rape, 129–30
Raskin, Marcus, 76
Raw materials
conservation of, 307–17
Read, Herbert, 159
Read, Leonard E., 379
Reason, 15
Recession
1958, 214
1966–1971, 214–15
inflationary. SeeInflationary recession
Ricardian theory of business cycle and, 230–31See alsoDepression
Rediscount rate, 224
Redlich, Fritz, 392n,
Reformers, 19–20See alsoGradualism
Religion
Resources
conservation of, 307–17
Rhode Island, 151
Ricardo, David, 230–32
Rights
air pollution and, 325–26
to education, 164–65
”human,” 51–53
property. SeeProperty rights
to self-ownership, 33–38
of society, 45
Riot
incitement to, 116
Roads
pricing streets and, 258–65
private, in England and the United States, 264–65
Rogers, A.J., III, 326n,
Roman Catholic Church, 77See alsoCatholics
Roosevelt, Franklin D., 339–41
Roosevelt, Theodore, 310
Rosenblatt, Daniel, 188
Rothbard, Murray N., ix–xii, 216n, 230n, 344n, 348n, 394n,
Rural Electrification Administration, 198
Russia
World War I and, 356See alsoSoviet Union
Russian Jewish immigrants, 189
S
SALT agreements, 366–67
Saving, T.R., 179n,
Scarcity of resources, 303
Schafer, Stephen, 108
Friedman’s “voucher plan” and, 165–66
public See alsoPublic schools
Science, 14, 16See alsoTechnology
Scientists, 16See alsoTechnocrats
Self-ownership
right to, 33–38
Sentencing
indeterminate, 114
Sex laws, 129–33
Shaull, Richard, 343n,
Shaw-Cardozo ghetto, 208
Silver standard, 220
Slander, 116–17
Slavery, 9–10
abolition of, 18
conscription as, 27–29See alsoInvoluntary servitude
Small Business Administration, 207–08
Smith, Adam, 48
Smith, J. Allen, 82n,
Social Darwinism (or evolutionism), 20–21
failure of, 397
freedom of the press and, 121
liberals’ demands for, 301–04
nineteenth-century, 15–17See alsoCommunism
Social Security system, 398–99
Social Security tax, 199
Society
individual and, 45–47
South Vietnam, 341–42
Soviet Union
disarmament and, 366–69
foreign policy of, 353–61
Spain, 337
Spanish-American War, 338, 343
Spencer, Herbert, 20, 21, 159, 395–96
Spooner, Lysander, 63–64
Stagflation. SeeInflationary recession
State
as aggressor, 55–66
civil obedience to, 67–68
classical liberals and, 2–4, 17–18
corporate, 13
demystification and desanctification of, 29–30
failure of statism, 395–96
guilt as used by, 71–72
inevitability of rule of, 71, 72
intellectuals and, 67–86
intellectuals’ need for, 74
judicial review and, 80–83
heterodox views and, 69–70
limitations on power of, 80–81
majority support for or acceptance of, 66–68, 81
money supply controlled by, 221–22
monopoly of violence by, 58
oligarchic rule of, 60–61
origin of, 78–79
parasitic nature of, 61–62
as robber group, 62–63
separation of Church and, 3, 5–6, 14
socialism and, 16
union of Church and, 67–68
war as health of, 347–53See alsoGovernment
State-less society, 84–85
Statism (nineteenth century), 12–15, 17–18
Stinchcombe, Arthur, 167–68
Stobierski, Rudolph J., 187
Stone, Lawrence, 392–93
Storefront, The, 195
Stowe, Calvin, 153
Streets
crime in the, 90
police protection of, in private economy, 249–54
pricing roads and, 258–65
private ownership of, 249–52
rules for use of, 255–58See alsoTraffic congestion
Strikes, 93
laws against, 102–04
Subpoena power, 107
Suburbs
public schools in, 162–63
Subways, 91
Sumner, William Graham, 20, 21, 329–30
Supreme Court, U.S., 58, 80–83
Supreme courts
absence of, in a libertarian society, 281, 284
Synthetic materials, 310
T
Taft, Robert A., 73
Tallack, William, 108
abolition or drastic reduction of, 203, 383–84
classes and, 64–65
classical liberals and, 3–4
excessive, 89–90
government operations and services and, 245–46
higher education and, 169
as involuntary servitude, 104–06
opportunistic strategy in, 383–86
the poor and, 198–202
as robbery, 62
state and local, 199–200
welfare state and, 196–202See also specific types of taxes
Tax-consumers
Tax Foundation, 202
Tax-payers
class of, 64–65
Tax rebellions, 398
Taylor, John, of Caroline, 102n,
Technology
antipollution, 323–24
liberal attack on, 305–07
Telephone service, 92
Television, 92
freedom of, 119–26
pay-, 122
violence on, 128
Tennessee Valley Authority, 198
Terborgh, George, 303n,
Testimony, coerced, 106–07
Thirteenth Amendment, 107
Tibet, 362n,
Timber resources, 311–12
Time preferences, 233–35
Tradition, 14
power of, 68
Traffic congestion, 91
Traffic rules for private streets, 256–58
Training of labor force
public schools and, 167–68
Transportation crisis, 91
Trenchard, John, 4–5
Trial
compelled attendance at one’s, 107
incarceration before, 108–09
right to speedy, 108–09
Tribune Co. v. Oak Leaves Broadcasting Station, 124–25
True Whigs, 4
Turnpike network
nineteenth-century, 264–65
U
Ukraine, 356
Unemployment, 303
lower-class, 189–91
minimum wage laws and, 196
Unions
strikes by, 93See alsoLabor unions
United States
breakdown of mystique of the State in, 399–400
crisis situations in, 398–99
disarmament and, 366–69
foreign policy of, 338–47, 364–65
libertarianism as fulfillment of history of, 402–03
libertarian movement’s prospects in, 397–401
war and power of the State in, 348–53See alsoColonial America and specific topics
”Upper-class” culture
welfare and, 187–91
Urban housing, 93
Urban renewal programs, 197
Utilitarianism, 19–20
conscription and, 98–99
free-market economy and, 48–49
libertarian creed and, 30–32
property titles and, 35–36
V
Van Buren, Martin, 9
Veale, F.J.P., 333
Vickrey, William, 258
Viet Cong, 341
Viet Minh, 341
Vietnam War, 340–42
Violence on television, 128
W
Wage, minimum, 196
Wagner Act, 103
Walters, A.A., 262
ancient Ireland and, 290
classical liberals and, 11–13, 18, 21, 22–23
guerrilla (revolutionary), 336–38
as health of the State, 347–53
laws of, 333
libertarian position on, 331–33See also specific wars
Warner, Harry P., 125
War of 1812, 348
Water pollution. SeePollution, of rivers
Water shortages, 91
in New York City, 245
Weed, Thurlow, 9
Weisbrod, Burton A., 169–70
Welfare Plan
Welfare state
tax system and, 196–202
Welfare system, 93
conservative criticism of, 192–93
crisis in, 175–82
cultural and moral values and, 187–92
demoralizing effect of, 192, 193
incentives/disincentives for going on, 178–82
self-help discouraged by, 194
West, E.G., 158–60
West Germany, 397
Western Europe
origin of the State in, 66–79
Whig Settlement, 4
Williams, William Appleman, 342–43, 349n,
Wilson, Margaret Bush, 304n,
Wilson, Woodrow, 339, 340, 362
Wiretapping, 133–34
Wisconsin, University of, 143
Witnesses coerced to testify, 106–07
Wolowski, Leon, 45n,
Woolridge, William C., 254n, 278
Workers
in nineteenth century, 12–13
Russia and, 355–56
Y
Young, Owen D., 278
Youth
libertarian movement and, 390
Z
Zoning laws, 197
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