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The Roaring ’20s

In two parts, audio recordings/lectures on the fascinating 1920s: Part I: Part II: mentioned and suggested readings and materials: ABC News, The Century Series: America’s Time, “Boom to Bust, 1920-1929“ David Kennedy et al., The American Pageant. Ludwig von Mises, Human Action. Murray Rothbard, The Progressive Era. Eric Sass, et al., The Mental Floss History…
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On the Gilded Age Robber Barons…And the Debate I LOST!

I heroically took the PRO side in a debate against my brilliant students on the resolution: The so-called “Robber Barons” were malevolent crooks who bilked the American public to get rich. Well, that did not go well–and I lost! Hear it all here.      

10-In-10 Decades Podcasts

Prompt   The 1970s   The 1980s   The 1990s   The 2000s   The 2010s

Dishonest Abe

The American History iconoclasts are very busy these days, not unlike the Jacobins during the French Revolution, they switch seamlessly from guillotining statues to cancelling people. This is what the modern, Western left has become. While the sane and healthy rightfully lament that statues of Stonewall Jackson, Robert E. Lee, and yes even Frederick Douglass…
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The Dogged (Actual) Liberal: Deirdre McCloskey

Her historical perspective has been pointed and consistent even as her gender identification has not. The brilliant and endlessly insightful Deirdre McCloskey has released her new book, really a collection of fine essays, which tackles the questions of real wealth creation, British imperialism and the Great Enrichment–a period of history in which we are truly…
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The Monopoly on Violence

As the old joke goes: “What is the difference between a minarchist and an anarchist?” A: About six months. The joke now needs to be amended to six months and/or this documentary. Thanks to everyone at Stateless Productions. Note: Duncan Lemp helped crowdfund this venture. God rest his soul.   DONATE NOW  

Bizarro World

If you feel out of place today, that is because you are normal. No, not in the derogatory “normie”, “blue-pilled” way, but in the well-adjusted, emotionally-stable, confident human being senses of the term. You have meaningful relationships. You enjoy physical, social interaction even conversation with other human beings. You, like me, detest “Eyes Wide Shut”…
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If Our Draconian, Totalitarian Measures Save Just One 89-Year Old With COPD and a Month to Live While We Sanction the Murder of Thousands–Well, It Is Worth It

It should not be a surprise that the best writing on the COVID insanity/hysteria comes from the always brilliant and erudite Jorg Guido Hulsmann. That he reports from France and that he understands our current madness within the nation that has produced such heroes of liberty (DeTocqueville, Bastiat) and on the other extreme, Marats, Dantons,…
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Flattening the Curve is Today’s WMD

18 years ago.101 years ago. Same problem, but not without solutions. And, no, illegally quarantining people is not one of them. There is so much relevant historical perspective here, even if at first peering through the looking glass of history it does not seem as such. Almost a score ago, the Bush administration, run by…
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When You’re Hated on the Left, and When You’re Hated on the Right, You Do the Hokey-Pokey and You’re Hated Even More…

…that’s what it’s all about, for true libertarians, past and present: Bastiat, Molinari, and me. David Hart explains Bastiat’s genius here in that he recognized, yes, the impingements of government on producers, but more so the devastation wrought by central planners on consumers. Both are forgotten groups in history.