Political Theory

Recorded at the Reassessing the Presidency seminar; March 2004. (44:14)

Recorded at Mises University 2003.

Recorded at the Reassessing the Presidency seminar; March 2004.

Recorded at the 2003 Supporters Summit: Prosperty, War, and Depression.

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Recorded at the Reassessing the Presidency seminar; March 2004. (38:46)

You can’t take Southern secession seriously because of slavery. Illinois is worth pondering because Lincoln supported the laws against blacks because he did not think that free blacks could ever mix with whites. A superior position was assigned to the white race. Lincoln meant every word. He voted against every suggested improvement for blacks. He saw universal emancipation as impossible.

Recorded at the Reassessing the Presidency seminar; March 2004. (31:58)

Gene Callahan presents the Henry Hazlitt Memorial Lecture at the 2003 Austrian Scholars Conference.

Recorded at Mises University 2003.

Natural law does not depend directly on God’s will. Natural law goes back to at least the scholastics and perhaps Thomas Aquinas. Modern Natural Rights theory began in 1625. Modern theory recognizes the institution the state. Natural law is thought to produce inalienable natural rights. They speak to the dignity of the individual and life and property. The close connection between liberty and property is part of this tradition.