One, a 1995 paper titled “The Political Economy of Monarchy and Democracy, and the Idea of a Natural Order,” argued that “the historic transition from monarchy to democracy represents not progress but civilizational decline.” In addition to advocating “the abdication of democracy,” Hoppe wanted people to accept a “natural order” under which a “voluntarily acknowledged ‘natural’ elite-a nobilitas naturalis” reigns supreme. Two of the articles were by Hans-Hermann Hoppe, a German economist best known for his 2001 jeremiad Democracy: The God That Failed.
In the first, Masters, now the Republican Senate candidate in Arizona, urged classmates to read an article about a California ballot measure “f you must worship that miserably peculiar American diety called Democracy.” In the second, he put together a reading list that could have easily served as a crash course in anti-democratic libertarianism. On Election Day in 2005, then–Stanford sophomore Blake Masters sent two emails to the listserv of his vegetarian co-op. Fight disinformation: Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily newsletter and follow the news that matters.
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