U.S. History

Section Three: Centralization versus Liberty. Narrated by Harold L. Fritsche.

The James E. Kluttz Lecture, presented at the 2012 Mises Institute Supporters Summit.

The Tea Party showed in 2010 how formerly apolitical people could become dedicated activists.

Central banks always result in feeding forces that centralize and expand the nation-state. The Fed’s policies in the 1920s, would provoke the Great Depression, which, in the end, wrenched political power from cities and state governments to the swampland in Washington

Real, lasting change comes only with education and with the intellectual movements behind them, and with a revolution in ideas. It’s up to us and the scholarship of the Austrian School to show the nature of central banks and state-dominated economies, and how it would work without them. Help continue the revolution.

“If you say the goal of the Fed was to prevent calamities, then you have to say that it has been a failure.”

Today is the 80th anniversary of the Repeal of Alcohol Prohibition in 1933.

The advent of film, as a creative medium, presented a challenge to the historical understanding of copyrights.

 If we wish to limit the power of the state, the state’s death penalty may be a good place to start.

The Articles of Confederation permitted the states to become tyrants, and the Constitution has permitted the federal government to become tyrannical.