President’s Impact Report — Second Quarter 2025
Mises Institute Scholars and Staff
Henry Hazlitt Research Fellow Dr. Jonathan Newman:
- appeared on the Retirement Lifestyle Advocates radio show and gave a talk at the Federalist Society titled “Crisis and Hydra: The Ratchet Effect in Government Control over Money and Banking.”
Walter E. Williams Research Fellow Dr. Wanjiru Njoya:
- appeared on The Tennessee Informer show. She also presented a paper titled “On Individual Liberty, Equity and Social Justice” and joined a panel discussion held by the European Center of Austrian Economics Foundation.
Senior Fellow Dr. Mark Thornton:
- appeared on the Freedom Works Radio Show and the Liberty and Finance show.
New Publications
- The Mises Institute published an extensive collection of Leonard Read’s arguments on liberty titled Freedom in One Lesson: The Best of Leonard Read.
- We also published a new children’s book by Dr. Jonathan Newman titled The Magic Coin, which tells the story of a girl who goes on a time-traveling adventure through the history of money and banking. The Magic Coin is also currently ranked as the top new release on Amazon’s Best Children’s How Things Work Books list.
Mises Academy
We relaunched Mises Academy. The new website features Dr. Jonathan Newman’s course Lessons for the Young Economist and is based on Bob Murphy’s book of the same name. Intended for high schoolers, the course provides everything teachers and homeschool families need to introduce their students to the fascinating world of economics and to provide a solid foundation of economic principles. To see all of the Mises Academy course offerings or to enroll in Newman’s course, visit academy.mises.org.
Mises Alumni
- 2024 Fellow in Residence Ismail Kurun received the Berry Teaching Award for 2025 from the Vanderbilt Philosophy Department.
Mises Events
Rothbard Graduate Seminar
The weeklong seminar, sponsored by Alice J. Lillie, was attended by 14 students and led by the Mises Institute faculty. The goal of RGS is to instill a deep understanding of Austrian economics and inspire future scholarly work in the Misesian-Rothbardian tradition.
Mises Circle in Phoenix, Arizona
Our Enemy, the Bureaucracy
The Mises Institute staff traveled to Phoenix for a Mises Circle with the theme of “Our Enemy, the Bureaucracy.” The event was hosted by Dru Heaton, Jeff Leskovar, and Scott and Cathy Ullery. The lecture lineup was The lecture lineup was as follows:
Tom DiLorenzo, “Public Enemies: Government Bureaucrats as Societal Parasites”
Tom Woods, “The Public Health Bureaucracy: Enemy of the Public, Enemy of Health”
Robert Malone, “MAGA, MAHA, and the Nanny State”
You can watch the presentations here.
Revisionist History of War Conference
Auburn, Alabama
The Mises Institute held a conference dedicated to revisionist history on May 15–17. Our hosts were Steve Berger, Bryan Lee Briggs, Jerry Dowell, William Ramagosa, and Steve and Cassandra Torello. Our speakers were sponsored by William Brennan, Paul Dietrich, James Fitzgerald, Armstrong Foundation, Charles Hatch, Dan and Tracy Haubeil, Greg Hill, Mark and Lane Murrah, Don Printz, Russell Rich, and Jerry Williams.
The lecture lineup was:
Tom DiLorenzo, “False Virtue: The Phony Rationale for American Military Imperialism”
Scott Horton, “How Washington Started the New Cold War with Russia and the Catastrophe in Ukraine”
Ilana Mercer, “The Real Israel vs. Hasbara History”
T. Hunt Tooley, “Engines of Destruction in the Great War: Artillery, Society, War Finance, and the Emergence of the Total State”
Mark Thornton, “The Revisionist Economic History of the Civil War”
David Gordon, “Charles Beard and American Foreign Policy”
Patrick Newman, “The Marshall Plan Slush Fund: Cronyism for US Exporters”
Phil Tourney, “The Attack on the USS Liberty”
Ron Unz, “The True History of World War II”
Jonathan Newman, “The Myth of Fed Independence After the Treasury-Fed Accord of 1951”
Karen Kwiatkowski, “Examining Pentagon Lies in Real Time: A Personal Perspective, a Public Prescription”
Ryan McMaken, “The Importance of Ralph Raico’s Foreign Policy Revisionism”
Peter Klein, “Origins of the National (Military) Science Foundation”
Joseph Salerno, “The ‘New Economists’ and Military Keynesianism”
Wanjiru Njoya, “Reconstruction Reconsidered”
Brion McClanahan, “The Righteous Cause Conquers the World
You can watch the presentations here.
Mises Media
Our documentary film Playing with Fire: Money, Banking, and the Federal Reserve now has over 1 million views, over 216,000 hours of watch time, and 6.54 million impressions, just since last October. You can watch it for free here.
Top YouTube Videos
”Real ID Is Not About Keeping You Safe“ | Connor O’Keeffe, Loot & Lobby, 1,352,412
Playing with Fire: Money, Banking, and the Federal Reserve, 508,333 views
“The Attack on the USS Liberty” | Phil Tourney, Revisionist History of War Conference, 98,876
Top Audio Downloads
“The Structure of Production” | Murray N. Rothbard, Introduction to Microeconomics, 68,259
“Editor’s Preface” | Percy L. Greaves Jr., Pearl Harbor: The Seeds and Fruits of Infamy, ed. Bettina Bien Greaves, 60,492
“Demand and Supply, Consumer Goods, Prices and Exchange” | Murray N. Rothbard, Economics 101, 50,335
Top Book Downloads
Human Action: A Treatise on Economics | Ludwig von Mises, 232,845
Progress and Poverty | Henry George, 39,895
Introduction to Economics | John Van Sickle and Benjamin Rogge, 38,655
