Resistance to Taxes: Then and Now
1998 Mises Institute Supporters Summit, Palm Springs, California; February 27-28, 1998.
U.S. History
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Hamilton’s Counterfeit Capitalism
Hamilton is the founder of the American system, but it definitely isn’t capitalism. It is a system of federal supremacy, national banking, government debt, and cronyism.
27. The Communication of Ideas: Postal Service and the Freedom of the Press
Pages 141-155 in the text, as narrated by Floy Lilley.
New Deal or Raw Deal? How FDR’s Economic Legacy Has Damaged America, by Burton Folsom, Jr.
Readers of The Mises Review will not be surprised to learn that Folsom considers the New Deal a failure. Nevertheless, even those already familiar with such books as John T. Flynn's The Roosevelt Myth will find Folsom's book valuable.
Courts and Congress: America’s Unwritten Constitution, by William J. Quirk
Courts and Congress defends a revolutionary thesis. If asked, who has the final say in our government on the meaning of the Constitution, most people would say, the Supreme Court.
The Attempt at Vindicating Lincoln
Lest I be accused of writing an unduly negative review, I shall conclude by recommending his discussion of the Progressives and the New Deal (pp. 293ff.) If Krannawitter were to expand these remarks, he would write a valuable book.
Hamilton’s Curse
Court historians have long praised the glories of Alexander Hamilton as the greatest of the founding fathers. This view is back in vogue as U.S. economic policy becomes ever more statist. In this work, Professor Thomas DiLorenzo provides the...
