Free Speech and Dissent During Wartime
Special lecture presented at the Mises Institute on 6 June 2006.
U.S. History
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2. Abraham Lincoln and the Triumph of Mercantilism in America
Alexander Hamilton wanted the colonies to be just like Britain, but without a king. He pushed mercantilism in America by arguing that public debt was positive and central banking was necessary.
3. Lincoln vs. the Constitution
There is no provision in the US Constitution allowing for a dictator. Yet, Lincoln was one. He suspended habeas corpus. Any disagreement with Lincoln was treated as treason. Political prisoners were everywhere, including the mayor of Baltimore.
1. Lincoln’s Tariff War
There exists a vitriolic Lincoln Cult who cannot countenance that Lincoln might have been motivated by money and power in engaging in the Tariff dispute which began in 1824.
Crunchy Conned
Rod Dreher's new book is long on sage advice for how we should all live, writes Jeffrey Tucker, but Dreher has put no thought into the economic implications of his vision.
The Libertarian Heritage: The American Revolution and Classical Liberalism
The libertarian creed, writes Murray Rothbard, emerged from the "classical liberal" movements of the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries in the Western world.
1. The Libertarian Heritage: The American Revolution and Classical Liberalism
From the book For A New Liberty: The Libertarian Manifesto, as narrated by Jeff Riggenbach.
The Rocky Road of American Taxation
No modern revolution was deeper rooted in taxation than the revolt of the Thirteen Colonies in British North America, writes Charles Adams.
Iraq and the Democratic Empire
This talk was delivered to the Auburn University Libertarians on February 16, 2006.
Beware the Alchemists
A book-length manuscript based on notes taken by Bettina B. Greaves during the Mises Seminar in New York in the 1960s.
