I was pleased recently to read an article by Ira Katz extolling the virtues of Sir Harry Flashman, V.C. The Flashman Papers , a series of books written by the late George MacDonald Fraser, are a personal favorite. Unfortunately, one seldom sees any reference to this enormously underrated set of historical novels. Mr. Katz charitably describes the
The following is the transcript from a talk delivered at the 2014 Houston Mises Circle . Video of the talk is available here . I’d like to speak with you today not about the NSA or any of the vast federal spying apparatus that has so eroded our personal and financial privacy; nor about the federal healthcare bureaucracy that undermines our medical
Join the Mises Institute as we welcome more than 130 students from all over the world to our Auburn campus! Mises U 2014 is a full week of Austrian scholarship that can’t be found anywhere else on the planet. Coming tonight at 8:00 PM EST (7:00 PM Central Time), Tom Woods will give the opening lecture for Mises University. Join us online to see
[Editor’s Note: This is a transcript from Jeff Deist’s interview with Tom Woods on June 3, 2014.] WOODS: I want to talk about the time you spent as Ron Paul’s chief of staff. I can’t imagine that could be dull. So first of all, what was that like, and how would you compare it to what the likely experience of other politicians’ chiefs of staff
This article is adapted from a speech delivered at the 2014 Costa Mesa Mises Circle, “ Society Without the State ,” held November 8, 2014. I promised you some optimism today. Perhaps one of the most optimistic libertarians ever was Murray Rothbard, a happy intellectual warrior if ever there was one. And he was very enthusiastic about the
Mises.org is the Mises Institute’s front door, the worldwide portal to the largest Austrian and libertarian library on the planet. As Forbes points out , the Mises Institute is a heavyweight in the online and social media world, generating more traffic than many freedom-minded organizations with much larger budgets. Mises.org was one of the first
This interview with Mises Institute President Jeff Deist is reprinted from the October 2014 issue of the Lara-Murphy Report. Lara-Murphy Report: How did you become interested in Austrian economics? Jeff Deist: I definitely discovered libertarianism first, which then led me to Austrian economics. I was a hardcore libertarian fairly early in life,
Editor’s Note: The following is a selection from a speech by Mises Institute President Jeff Deist at the Southwest Regional Mises Circle in Houston, “The Police State: Know It When You See It,” on January 18, 2014. Today when we use the term peace officer, it sounds antiquated and outdated. I’m sure most people in the room under 40 have never
Jeff Deist, president of the Mises Institute, recently spoke with The Free Market about his introduction to the Austrian School and his work with Ron Paul. Mises Institute: How did you become interested in Austrian economics? Jeff Deist: My journey with Austrian economics and the Mises Institute began in 1992. I was fortunate to have a good
Last week the Mises Institute hosted another outstanding Austrian Economics Research Conference at our campus in Auburn. Attendees enjoyed three days of cross-disciplinary presentations by more than 50 academics, PhD candidates, and economics/finance professionals, all working in the most provocative traditions of Austrian and libertarian thought.
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