Harry Truman and the Imperial Presidency
Recorded at the Reassessing the Presidency seminar; March 2004.
Recorded at the Reassessing the Presidency seminar; March 2004.
Lessl’s field is rhetoric. The history of the relationship between faith and science shifted when the theological nucleus was removed and science was inserted. Rhetoric was left behind. Faith was erased in the middle of the nineteenth century. Kant was intensely hostile to Catholicism. He wanted to replace it with humanism.
Recorded at the Reassessing the Presidency seminar; March 2004. (31:15)
Butler Shaffer does a Cost-Benefit Analysis of the Human Spirit: The Luddites Revisited at the 2003 Austrian Scholars Conference.
Jeffersonian States Rights Doctrine until the Civil War was grounded in three freedom documents: The Declaration of Independence, The Articles of Confederation, and The Treaty of Paris of 1783. Those documents emphasized independent states, not a single nation or union.
Recorded at the 2003 Supporters Summit: Prosperty, War, and Depression.
(38:26)
WWI was a kind of turning point. Bolshevism, National Socialism and fascism are related ideologies which surfaced after the war. Fascism was the wave of the future in 1920 with its notion of government central planning.
Recorded at the Reassessing the Presidency seminar; March 2004. (31:58)