World History

Why does the scope of the state always enlarge? Michael S. Rozeff suggests a theory based on the the incentives of those who possess the power to tax.

Communist Parties are still alive and well, even in post-communist countries. Luca Ferrini speculates that the larger the state, the more it corrupts the mind and the culture. Communism means never having to leave the nest.

Like FDR, George Bush got his war, writes Joseph Potts, but Bush went his Democratic predecessor one better—a big one better.

People have long accused the great liberal tradition of a dogmatic attachment to peace. It would appear that this is precisely what is necessary in order to preserve the freedom necessary for all of us to find true meaning in our lives.

Francis Fukuyama offers us a most peculiar argument, which as best as I can make out goes as follows. We have learned in the twentieth century that free-market economic systems work better than centrally directed ones.

 Thomas Woods discusses The New American History, at the 2005 Austrian Scholars Conference Author’s Forum.

A full-employment policy produces unemployment. Keynesian economics became the dominant theory wherein inflation was endorsed as a method of increasing aggregate demand which should boost employment.

Presented as part of the Mises Institute’s Brown Bag Seminar series on January 27, 2005 in Auburn, Alabama.

In the Paris of the 1720s, writes Sean Corrigan, there took place a duel; a contest of both wills and intellects.

Recorded 10/16/2004 at Radical Scholarship: The Guerrilla Movement for Liberty.