Glen Tenney's Online Resources
Topic: Conservatism 

 

   

Jim Gibbons and the Mine-E-Mae Proposal

By Glen Tenney

Taking the lead from Hans Hoppe, the author demonstrates how conservative socialism forms the basis for the politics of one of Nevada’s most popular politicians.  (2 pages, 2005)

The Intellectual Incoherence of Conservatism

By Hans H. Hoppe

In this article, which was taken from one of the chapters in his Democracy: The God that Failed, Hoppe explains how today’s conservatives often attempt to achieve admirable goals by using failed socialist-statist policies.  Since Hoppe considers himself a true conservative in many ways, this article is fascinating.   (5 pages, 2005)

Self-Ownership, Abortion, and the Rights of Children: Toward a More Conservative Libertarianism

By Edward Feser

Feser suggests that the only true libertarianism must be conservative at its root.  (24 pages, 2004)

Is Libertarianism Amoral?

By Ralph Raico

This article questions attempts to fuse conservatism and libertarianism.  (10 pages, 1964)

Confessions of a Right-wing Liberal

By Murray Rothbard

In this article, Rothbard shows how his political views could be said to have gone from extreme right to extreme left without his actual views changing at all.  (7 pages, 1968)

Left and Right: The Prospects for Liberty

By Murray Rothbard

(12 pages, 1965)

A Note on Burke’s Vindication of the Natural Society

 

by Murray Rothbard

Edmund Burke is well known as the father of one of the versions of conservatism, but he is not generally seen as an anarchist. However, in this review of Burke’s first published work, Vindication of the Natural Society, Rothbard suggests that Burke’s early work “was perhaps the first modern expression of rationalistic and individualistic anarchism.”  (6 pages, 1958) 

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