Thomas J. DiLorenzo

Articles

07/18/2025 Power & Market Thomas J. DiLorenzo

Just as no one in the world could possibly make something as simple as a pencil all by himself, as the great Leonard Read explained in his famous essay, I, Pencil, so it is with Mises University.

Trump’s Election-Interference Tariff

07/15/2025 Power & Market Thomas J. DiLorenzo

Like a child with his new favorite toy at Christmas, President Trump is using tariff taxes not only to attempt to centrally plan the pricing of thousands of goods and services in the economy, but also to engage in election interference in other countries.

To Make America Free Again

06/05/2025 Mises Wire Thomas J. DiLorenzo

If we really want America to be “great” it must first be free.

Publications

Axis of Evil: America’s Three Worst Presidents

10/30/2024 Thomas J. DiLorenzo

The Siena College Research Institute, the American Political Science Association, and C-SPAN all publish rankings of American presidents by “mainstream” historians, political scientists, and other “presidential experts.” Abraham Lincoln and Franklin

The Real Lincoln

01/11/2016 Thomas J. DiLorenzo

In this book, Thomas DiLorenzo calls for a complete rethinking of a central icon of American historiography. He looks at the actions and legacy of Abe Lincoln from an economics point of view to show that Lincoln’s main interest was not in opposing

How Capitalism Saved America

01/11/2016 Thomas J. DiLorenzo

Thomas DiLorenzo has a marvelous analytical talent and a knack for drawing the reader’s attention to the material that matters. His new book employs this talent in defense of the whole history of free enterprise in America. How long have we waited

Media

Trump’s Election-Interference Tariff

07/16/2025 Thomas J. DiLorenzo

The American-Israeli Nineteenth-Century Ways of War

05/29/2025 Thomas J. DiLorenzo

This brief historical sketch brings us to how the American and Israeli militaries of today have adopted a nineteenth-century-style war of extermination against what they consider to be another “lesser race.”

False Virtue: The Phony Rationale for American Military Imperialism

05/16/2025 Thomas J. DiLorenzo

Tom DiLorenzo exposes the dangerous "Treasury of Virtue" that justifies endless wars and imperialism.

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