Supporters Summit 2012 "The Truth About War: A Revisionist Approach"
Join Lew Rockwell, Doug French and Mises Institute Faculty as we celebrate
30 years of advancing the cause of liberty & economic freedom
and examine the true causes and consequences of war.
Congressman Ron Paul (tentative) • Judge Andrew Napolitano • Lew Rockwell
Doug French • Tom Woods • Bob Higgs • Joe Salerno • Walter Block
Tom DiLorenzo • Yuri Maltsev • Peter Klein • David Gordon • Mark Thornton
Jeffrey Herbener • Butler Shaffer • John Denson • Gary Schlarbaum
The Mises Bookstore will be on site and speakers will be happy to autograph their books
Sessions take place in the Inn at spectacular Callaway Gardens, Georgia, with an excursion to nearby Warm Springs for a traditional Southern buffet meal, visit to FDR's Little White House, the Springs, and shopping.
Government officials usually lie, to protect their power and their pelf. But when it comes to that quintessential State activity, war, the lies fly thick and fast. Because war is the most effective State-building activity--enriching government and its merchants of death, and demonizing dissent as unpatriotic or even illegal--telling the truth is even more important that usual. We must see through the smokescreen of lies, educate the young and everyone, and promote the linked causes of peace and freedom. For the 30th anniversary of the Mises Institute, we have chosen war revisionism--that is, telling the truth--as our subject. In XX talks and discussions, we will plumb the depths of State depravity and mass murder in many wars, and show the way out. Join us for this exciting and politically incorrect conference.
Hotel Reservations
For hotel reservations at Callaway Gardens please call 800-225-5292 before September 25 and mention the Mises Institute for a special rate. Available special rate options are $119 per night at Mountain Creek Inn (where most sessions take place), or $150 per night at Southern Pine One Bedroom Cottage, or $280 per night at Southern Pine Two Bedroom Cottage, or $169 at Mountain Creek Villa. Rates are before taxes and include admission into Callaway Gardens.
Additional Information
Shuttle schedule between Atlanta, Georgia airport and Callaway Gardens forthcoming.
Attire is business casual for all events except Saturday's closing dinner, which is black-tie optional.
A limited number of scholarships are available to exceptional students to cover conference registration, Friday dinner and Saturday lunch. To apply, open this form in Adobe Acrobat, complete it, and save as pdf on your computer. Email the saved pdf to
Tentative Schedule
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12:30 p.m. |
Registration, coffee, bookstore open | |
| 1:00 p.m. | Welcome | |
| 1:15 p.m. | Doug French | Waging War With the Printing Press |
| 1:35 p.m. | Walter Block | War, Peace, and Statism |
| 1:55 p.m. | Mark Thornton | How Rhett Butler Lost the Civil War |
| 2:15 p.m. | Discussion and refreshments | |
| 2:30 p.m. | John Denson | How Revisionist History Leads to Peace |
| 2:50 p.m. | Tom DiLorenzo | The Myth of the Pro-War Constitutionalist |
| 3:10 p.m. | Peter Klein | Interstate Highways, Radar, Tang: Does War Promote Technological Innovation? |
| 3:30 p.m. | Discussion and refreshments | |
| 3:45 p.m. | Tom Woods | How Murray Rothbard Changed My Mind on War |
| 4:05 p.m. | Lew Rockwell | War and the Fed |
| 4:25 p.m. | Gary G. Schlarbaum Award Presentation | |
| 4:30 p.m. | Butler Shaffer | Schlarbaum Address: In Defense of History |
| 5:00 p.m. | Adjourn | |
| 6:00 p.m. | Dinner at Robin Beach with Judge Andrew Napolitano | |
| 8:30 a.m. | Coffee, Bookstore open | |
| 9:00 a.m. | Jeffrey Herbener | Legacies of the Great War |
| 9:20 a.m. | David Gordon | Murray Rothbard and Revisionist History |
| 9:40 a.m. | Joe Salerno | The Keynesian Architects of the U.S. Warfare State |
| 10:00 a.m. | Discussion and refreshments | |
| 10:15 a.m. | Yuri Maltsev | The Gang of Four: Hitler, Stalin, Roosevelt and Churchill and the Destruction of Europe |
| 10:35 a.m. | Bob Higgs | How U.S. Economic Warfare Provoked Japan's Attack on Pearl Harbor |
| 11:00 a.m. | Adjourn | |
| 11:20 a.m. | Buses depart for Warm Springs | |
| 11:45 a.m. | Southern Buffet Lunch at Bulloch House in Warm Springs | |
| 1:00 - 4:00 p.m. | Buses depart from Bulloch House every half hour for FDR's Little White House (self-guided tour), shopping in Warm Springs or visiting The Springs, or return to Callaway Gardens | |
| 6:30 p.m. | Reception | |
| 7:30 p.m. | Dinner at Sibley Center with Ron Paul (black-tie optional) followed by Rothbard Late Night Reception | |
