U.S. History

Reader “Albert Nock” was kind enough to send me notice of some new research on v

If we adopt the principle that the government can do what it wishes to cope with present needs as it understands them, then we repudiate, not some legal technicality, but the basic principle of the American Revolution.

It’s been a kick digging up all these lost books by Garet Garrett. What amazing insight he had in economics and politics!

But the critical thing is that these people will be governing themselves, and the critical thing that prevents progress today — the presence of the foreign occupier — will be gone. The solution is imperfect, to be sure, but it is better than the opposite of turning the entire world into a prison camp run by the U.S. government.

Flynn gradually came around to a full-blown embrace of the free market as the only means to check the power of the government-business combine.

Gelernter would profit from reflecting about a remark often attributed to Voltaire: if you want to found a new religion, you should arrange to be crucified and rise from the dead on the third day.

But Gutzman could in response say that this is what was legally enacted; those who favor other views of government should not attempt to attain their goals through misreadings and distortion of the constitutional text.

A little clarification of the confusion surrounding the recent massive central bank intervention in the markets might be in order.

Recorded at Mises University 2007.

A few comments on Jeff Hummel’s lengthy JLS review of Tom Woods’s