World History

Mises Daily Weekend by David Gordon.

David Gordon explains how Hans-Hermann Hoppe, while avoiding undue pessimism, takes the conventional view of "progress" in Western society and turns the narrative on its head.

Mises Daily Weekend by David Gordon: Thinkers Who Challenged the State

This essay is adapted from David Gordon’s talk at the Costa Mesa Mises Circle. Click here to register for January’s Houston Mises Circle.

While we are told today that an anarchist society is unachievable, the ancients believed such a society to be achievable but undesirable. The world would have to wait for later theorists like Bastiat and Oppenheimer, who explained the true costs of the state.

Downton Abbey, which returns for a fifth season in January, features an even-handed treatment of the British aristocracy. But behind this nuanced view remains the fact that titled aristocrats usually owe their positions to government favoritism and cronyism.

The Velvet Revolution, during which the people of Czechoslovakia revolted against their communist masters, turns twenty-five years old this month.  Many people from formerly-communist economies have learned much from the experience, even if many in the West have not.

Berlin provides us with an example that comes as close to that of a controlled social experiment as one could probably hope to get, writes Hans Hop

One hundred years ago, the combatants of World War One fought themselves to a standstill.

One hundred years ago, the combatants of World War One fought themselves to a standstill. The warring regimes then used the opportunity to clamp down on internal dissent and a host of other liberties.

Laurence Vance reviews Malcolm D. Magee's new book on Woodrow Wilson.