Our week-long Mises University begins this Sunday night, and all keynote lectures will stream free via mises.org/live or our Facebook page . The week kicks-off with Tom Woods Sunday night, followed by Judge Andrew Napolitano Monday evening. So plan on tuning-in: the full schedule is here ! Dr. Robert Higgs delivered one of our most popular and
Includes an introduction by Llewellyn H. Rockwell, Jr., and the presentation of the 2015 Murray N. Rothbard Medal of Freedom to Dr. Higgs. Recorded at the Mises Institute in Auburn, Alabama, on 20 July
This weekend we feature part of a talk by our old friend Dr. Robert Higgs, a longtime Senior Fellow at the Mises Institute and libertarian stalwart. Bob, author of the famous Crisis and Leviathan , recently spoke at Mises University on the critical topic of war and the growth of the state. He considers war the “master key” that enables government
The Free Market 26, no. 1 (January 2008) Margaret Atwood’s poem “Siren Song” begins: This is the one song everyone would like to learn: the song that is irresistible: the song that forces men to leap overboard in squadrons even though they see the beached skulls. Our rulers know how to sing that song, and they sing it day and night. The
The Free Market 20, no. 2 (February 2002) Shortly after the September 11 attacks on the World Trade Center and the Pentagon, President Bush created an Office of Homeland Security. How many of us have stopped to ponder the meaning of that action? For more than fifty years, the United States has maintained an active—some might say
The Free Market 12, no. 12 (December 1994) “Peace on Earth” should be more than a holiday cliché. The costs of war and its perpetual threat are immense, and threaten freedom and civilization itself. Even with the end of the Cold War, the U.S. finds itself in an endless series of military squabbles, including Panama, Iraq, Somalia, and Haiti,
“The business of buying weapons that takes place in the Pentagon is a corrupt business — ethically and morally corrupt from top to bottom. The process is dominated by advocacy, with few, if any, checks and balances. Most people in power like this system of doing business and do not want it changed.” – Colonel James G. Burton (1993, 232) In
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