Mises Daily
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David Gordon
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[David Gordon discusses his new online Mises Academy course, Freedom Versus Authority: Europe 1789–1945 , which starts September 16.] The onset of the French Revolution, in 1789, seemed to be a time of hope for liberty. As William Wordsworth said, Bliss was it in that dawn to be alive, But to be young was very heaven! But by 1945, Europe lay in