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 14, no. 1 (January 1996) The sad spectacle of political stalemate in the United States suggests that Americans are stuck with our current size and scope of government—and the lackluster economy that the government’s strictures cause. Is the welfare state a tangled web from which no nation can escape? Evidently not. Chileans and
The Free Market 15, no. 3 (March 1997) My idea of a great president is one who acts in accordance with his oath of office to “preserve, protect, and defend the Constitution of the United States.” Not since the presidency of Grover Cleveland has any president achieved greatness by this standard. Worse, the most admired have been those who failed
When Governor Isaac Stevens went around Puget Sound in the mid-1850s making treaties with the Indian tribes to clear the way for an anticipated influx of whites, he found again and again that asking for the tribal chief got him nowhere. The Indians would look around and shrug their shoulders. They had no chiefs. Like many North American Indian
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