Dickens’ work reflects popular culture as a feedback mechanism. He saluted middle class virtues. He praised capitalism. He had high regard for free enterprise. Dickens was the greatest novelist in English. Dickens died a very wealthy man.
In 1959, Soviet Premier Nikita Khrushchev and Vice President Richard Nixon walked through a replica of a six-room American ranch house that was on
It's the code that Isabel Paterson, the great twentieth-century libertarian, had in mind when she said that modern ideas of freedom are dependent on "the axiom of liberty" embedded in Christian teaching.
Marc Trachtenberg's guidebook is intended as a "how-to" book for students of diplomatic history and political science. But much of it is of great value to anyone interested in a revisionist brand of history.
A doctrine may be modern, fashionable, generally accepted and nevertheless detrimental to human society, civilization and survival. The first step to every attempt to investigate social, political, and economic changes has to be the study of the changes of the ideas which guided men to bring about these changes. The theories which build up or disintegrate social cooperation can only be proved or refuted by pure reasoning. They cannot be exposed to the simple examination of the experiment.
Special lecture presented at the Mises Institute on 6 June 2006.
Under what law should the heads of governments be tried? Lew Rockwell writes that if they are tried according to every-day moral law, they would all be in big trouble.
Were the barbarians more beneficent than the Romans? A couple of Englishmen are trying to convince you that this is so.
In a peculiar way, writes Paul Trescott, the underclass are subsidized by our prosperous society.
In a reply to a recent mises.org weblog posting someone posted a challenge- Would anyone be so k
