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Lincoln’s Tariff War ~ March 2, 1861
When Charles Adams published his book For Good and Evil, a world history of taxation, the most controversial chapter by far…
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The Next Austrian School Renaissance
Having recently completed forty-one years as a university economics professor I am convinced that books like in particular, and the Austrian…
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False Virtue: The Life and Death of “American Exceptionalism”
The impending decline of the dollar is apparently imposing a real Halloween scare on the American foreign policy establishment. An…
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False Virtue: The Life and Death of “American Exceptionalism”
The impending decline of the dollar is apparently imposing a real Halloween scare on the American foreign policy establishment. An…
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Hawaii’s “Bayonet Constitution”
News reports of how Hawaiians greeted Biden’s motorcade in Maui on August 21 with middle fingers and shouts of “F_ _ _…
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Commentary
The Smiling Face Of American Terrorism
All governments are empires of lies. As Murray Rothbard wrote in his essay, “Anatomy of the State,” tax-funded political payoffs…
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Hayek, Friedman, Mises, & Rothbard on The Political Economy of Free Speech
To most people the issue of freedom of speech is a constitutional issue and a civil liberties matter. But a…
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The Campaign Speech that Brandon Should Have Given
As everyone knows, Brandon never did campaign for president in 2020. Hiding behind the fraudulent façade of covid hysteria, the…
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Yuri Maltsev, R.I.P.
My old friend Yuri Maltsev passed away on Thursday. As many LRC and Mises.org readers know, Yuri was part of…
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Why the Left Must Destroy Free Speech – or Be Destroyed
In Hayek’s famous 1944 book, The Road to Serfdom, he warned that the intellectual and political classes of the democracies of…
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Unhappy Marxist Thanksgiving, Everyone!
In recent years the unhinged Marxist Left in “higher” education along with the hard-Left pop communists in the teachers’ unions…
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Commentary
Can “One of the Most Brilliant Essays on Political Philosophy Ever Written” Save America?
In an essay entitled “A Strategy of the Right” Murray Rothbard called John C. Calhoun’s Disquisition on Government “one of the most…
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Commentary
Alexander Bidenton’s Standing IRS Army
The Biden administration’s “Inflation Reduction Act” will increase inflation with hundreds of billions in additional government spending and money creation by the…
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Economy
Economic Witch Doctors
“Most economists are political apologists masquerading as economists,” wrote investor and author Doug Casey in an online article entitled “How…
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Commentary
Lincoln’s Repudiation of the Declaration of Independence
Perhaps the biggest falsehood ever pedaled about Abraham Lincoln is that he was devoted to the principles of the Declaration…
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100 Years of Fascist Propaganda: The Lincoln Memorial’s Centennial
The Lincoln Memorial in Washington, D.C. turned 100 on May 30, so I thought I’d add my two cents to…
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