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History of Liberty

This 25-lecture instructional seminar presents a reinterpretation of the history of liberty from the ancient world—an ambitious agenda, but a wonderfully successful conference. Hosted at the Mises Ins... Read more

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The New Deal

The New Deal

Certain themes that relate to the New Deal between 1933 and 1938 ended in 1938 when FDR moved on to repair all the probl... Read more

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Historians, the State and Liberty

Historians, the State and Liberty

The opinion that is dished out in textbooks every year by academic historians is ideologically mostly left-liberalism or... Read more

1 Mar 2004

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The Progressive Era

The Progressive Era

The Progressive Era covered the turn of the 19th-20th centuries until about WWI. It delivered such delights as the Feder... Read more

1 Mar 2004

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Historians and the Welfare-Warfare State

Historians and the Welfare-Warfare State

Murray Rothbard popularized the concept of the welfare-warfare state. He didn’t like either of them. He knew that if the... Read more

1 Mar 2004

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Natural Rights

Natural Rights

Natural law does not depend directly on God’s will. Natural law goes back to at least the scholastics and perhaps Thomas... Read more

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The Rise of the Nation-State

The Rise of the Nation-State

Most of what is said about nation-states is not true. They are neither democracies nor republics nor nations nor states.... Read more

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The Rise of the West

The Rise of the West

The European Miracle was one in which humans achieved sustained growth for the first time on earth. Why Europe? Because ... Read more

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Southern Secession and Reconstruction

Southern Secession and Reconstruction

You can’t take Southern secession seriously because of slavery. Illinois is worth pondering because Lincoln supported th... Read more

1 Mar 2004

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Puritan Revolution and Republicanism

Puritan Revolution and Republicanism

The transforming ideology of the American Revolution consists of four elements: liberalism, republicanism, English law, ... Read more

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Theory and History

Theory and History

Economic theory is essential for understanding history. It is difficult to interpret data without economic theory. Theor... Read more

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