U.S. History

In 1913, economics and liberty collided when the Federal Reserve Bank was created, the 15th Amendment created the income tax, and the 17th Amendment instituted direct election of Senators.

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.

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.

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.

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 creed, writes Murray Rothbard, emerged from the "classical liberal" movements of the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries in the Western world.

From the book For A New Liberty: The Libertarian Manifesto, as narrated by Jeff Riggenbach.

This talk was delivered to the Auburn University Libertarians on February 16, 2006.

A book-length manuscript based on notes taken by Bettina B. Greaves during the Mises Seminar in New York in the 1960s.