U.S. History

Presented at Mises University 2022.

Presented at Mises University 2022.

We live in a world of constant cronyism. Nothing seems to change, no matter the party or the people in power. Was it always like this? Can we learn from it?

Critics claim the market economy engages in "planned obsolescence" that encourages throwing good products into landfills. In fact, activities that might seem wasteful are the best use of resources.

Bombing private property is bad. So, when someone bombed the pro-eugenics, antihuman Georgia "guidestones," we naturally condemned the bombing. But let's not pretend the monument was a good thing. 

Recorded at the Mises Institute in Auburn, Alabama, on 28 July 2022.

Politicians, academics, and the media often call for a new Manhattan Project to deal with economic issues. But there is a huge difference between technological problems and economic ones.

As political divisions worsen in the United States, one remedy besides secession might be to create semiautonomous regional territories.

In their aggressions against neighbors the Spanish and English established the policies to be applied to alien peoples through conquest or extermination. 

In the 1950s, McCarthyism targeted people who were accused of supporting Russia. Today's McCarthyism targets people accused of supporting … Russia. Some things never change.