Classical Liberal Historians
People learn their political views through what they believe about history. Memorials function to push certain interpretations, e.g. about the War Between the States and the greatness of rulers like Lincoln and FDR.
Recent Podcast Episodes
The Impossibility of Limited Government: The Prospects for a Second American Revolution
Recorded at the Reassessing the Presidency seminar; March 2004. (47:26)
Rothbard on Agency Problems
Alexandre Padilla talks about Rothbard on Agency Problems at the 2003 Austrian Scholars Conference.
Harry Truman and the Imperial Presidency
Recorded at the Reassessing the Presidency seminar; March 2004.
Origins of Science in the Age of Faith
Lessl’s field is rhetoric. The history of the relationship between faith and science shifted when the theological nucleus was removed and science was inserted. Rhetoric was left behind. Faith was erased in the middle of the nineteenth century. Kant was intensely hostile to Catholicism. He wanted to replace it with humanism.
The Trouble With Washington
Recorded at the 2003 Supporters Summit: Prosperty, War, and Depression.
(51:13)
The Electoral College as a Brake on Presidential Power: Its Evolution From Washington to Jackson
Recorded at the Reassessing the Presidency seminar; March 2004. (31:15)
Anti-Federalist Traditions until the Civil War
Jeffersonian States Rights Doctrine until the Civil War was grounded in three freedom documents: The Declaration of Independence, The Articles of Confederation, and The Treaty of Paris of 1783. Those documents emphasized independent states, not a single nation or union.
