Secession: The Reasonable Option Everyone Resists
Recorded at the Mises Circle in Houston, Texas, 24 January 2015.
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People Have More Money? Let’s Tax It!
The drop in gas prices has left households with a little extra money to spend. So naturally, the state thinks it's a great time to raise gas taxes. Otherwise, taxpayers would just waste that money on their families.
The Calamity of the Federal Reserve
Interviewed by Solidus.Center founder Seth Mason, Mark Thornton and Walter Block discuss the history of the Fe
How Embargoes Destroy Freedom
Supporters of embargoes like the Cuban embargo have never made a convincing case for why taxpayers, merchants, and consumers should be forced to forego their property rights and bear the costs of the embargo’s war on free trade.
Mises Daily Tuesday: Is The Fourteenth Amendment Good?
Mises Daily Tuesday by Allen Mendenhall.
Is The Fourteenth Amendment Good?
Designed to redress the wrongs of the major injustice of slavery, the Fourteenth Amendment is now used by the federal courts to micromanage nearly every aspect of modern life. Strangely, many libertarians continue to support the amendment in spite of this.
The 200th Anniversary of the Hartford Convention
The Hartford Convention is known now, as much as it is remembered, as an ideological precursor to Southern secession in 1860 and 1861.
Rothbard: Was the American Revolution Radical?
In chapter 80 of Conceived in Liberty, his history of the American Revolution, Rothbard addresses modern attempts to re-frame the American Revolution as some sort of "conservative" revolution that merely preserved a way of life, and was not a radical departure from the past.
"...the deep-seated radicalism of the American Revolution goes far beyond this. It was inextricably linked both to the radical revolutions that went before and to the ones, particularly the French, that succeeded it."
