Inflation and the Bolsheviks
Recorded at the Mises Institute Supporters Summit, 1 November 2008; Auburn, Alabama.
World History
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A Ramble ‘Round Old Birmingham
And so it happened that Birmingham became "emphatically the town of 'free trade'," where practically no restrictions, commercial or municipal, were known" (Timmins 1866, p. ??), and where the notion of free trade was even to be extended, however briefly, to the nation's coinage.
The Future
Chapter 29 of Capitalism and Commerce: Conceptual Foundations of Free Enterprise; “The Future”.
Sovereignty: God, State, and Self, by Jean Bethke Elshtain
Several years ago, I wrote a diatribe against Jean Elshtain's Just War Against Terror. She was not altogether pleased by this and sent in a letter of protest, which evoked yet more venom from me.
Liberation by Internet: How Technology Destroys Tyranny
As a decentralized communication system facilitating the sending and receiving of messages by billions of people, the Internet has greatly shifted
What Belongs to Caesar?
Men have, in other words, a right to secede from a state they deem immoral, for whatever reasons.
Longing for Dictatorship
They seek dictatorship. All the rest is illusion.
Farewell to Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
Solzhenitsyn had enough courage to equate socialism and Nazism as equally evil and morally reprehensible.
Good Money
This is the true and remarkable story of private coinage and banking in Britain in the early years of the Industrial Revolution (1775-1850). Making money was a business in demand. The needs of business for small denominations were changing...
Human Smoke: The Beginnings of World War II, the End of Civilization, by Nicholson Baker
The neoconservatives are already in hot pursuit of Human Smoke. In the March 2008 issue of Commentary, David Pryce-Jones called it a "mendacious book."
