World History

Recorded at the Mises Institute, 7–8 October 2005. 

In Iraq, much public support for the invasion was lost when American television vividly depicted life in Baghdad after its fall.

Recorded at Mises University 2005.

John Lukacs, in his own estimation, is much more than an ordinary historian. In what he considers his most important book, Historical Consciousness

Recorded at Mises University 2005.

Michael Rozeff explains ways in which power comes to work its evil. A ruler is never as careful with public money as with his own.

Libertarian punishment theory is two teeth for a tooth plus cost of capturing plus scaring if appropriate. It is part of reparations. It is necessary to find the rightful owner of property even if many generations have passed. But, the burden of proof of ownership gets harder.

John V. Denson discusses the world-changing events that happened between January and June 1919: disastrous decisions that resulted in creating a platform for Hitler to rise in Germany, the Second World War, and beyond.

This essay originally printed in 2004 by Ecole Polytechnique,