A Sickness in the People
Posted in Cliches of Socialism, From the Archives on 16 May 2011
Stats: 740 views and 2 Comments Economist James M. Buchanan used to ask his Ph.D. students the following question, “It is said that a fly that grew 9 times its size could no longer fly. What does that imply for the fiscal dimensionality of the state?” This question is one of scale in relation to the ...
Posted in Cliches of Socialism, From the Archives on 16 May 2011
Stats: 740 views and 2 Comments Economist James M. Buchanan used to ask his Ph.D. students the following question, “It is said that a fly that grew 9 times its size could no longer fly. What does that imply for the fiscal dimensionality of the state?” This question is one of scale in relation to the ...
Jacksonian America and the Rise of the Democratic Man
Posted in History and Liberty, Library, Media, Video on 23 March 2011
Stats: 186 views and No Comments Hillsdale College history professor Brad Birzer on democracy and republic as seen by the Founding Fathers. For the audio file of this lecture click here.
Posted in History and Liberty, Library, Media, Video on 23 March 2011
Stats: 186 views and No Comments Hillsdale College history professor Brad Birzer on democracy and republic as seen by the Founding Fathers. For the audio file of this lecture click here.
Against Majority Rule
Posted in From the Archives on 31 October 2010
Stats: 3,742 views and No Comments Once again Election Day is almost upon us. For many the concept of majority rule has reached religious proportions. Once the people have chosen, to disagree is seen as un-patriotic, made particularly worse if one hasn’t voted. This concept of the primacy of majority rule, however, is the cliché of ...
Posted in From the Archives on 31 October 2010
Stats: 3,742 views and No Comments Once again Election Day is almost upon us. For many the concept of majority rule has reached religious proportions. Once the people have chosen, to disagree is seen as un-patriotic, made particularly worse if one hasn’t voted. This concept of the primacy of majority rule, however, is the cliché of ...
Jacksonian America and the Rise of the Democratic Man
Posted in Audio, Media on 18 July 2010
Stats: 315 views and No Comments A lecture by Professor Brad Birzer on the difference between democracy and republic as seen by the Founding Fathers. The lecture was delivered to students to students attending the History and Liberty seminar on June 15, 2010. For the video file of this lecture click here.
Posted in Audio, Media on 18 July 2010
Stats: 315 views and No Comments A lecture by Professor Brad Birzer on the difference between democracy and republic as seen by the Founding Fathers. The lecture was delivered to students to students attending the History and Liberty seminar on June 15, 2010. For the video file of this lecture click here.
Mises, Lane, and the Question of Democracy
Posted in From the Archives on 19 June 2010
Stats: 520 views and 2 Comments Libertarians, naturally, do not agree on all issues. How far we want to push the frontiers of liberty is a question that will need continual answers in this ever-changing world. One such issue is how libertarians and classical liberals feel about democracy. In the late 1940s, two of the most influential ...
Posted in From the Archives on 19 June 2010
Stats: 520 views and 2 Comments Libertarians, naturally, do not agree on all issues. How far we want to push the frontiers of liberty is a question that will need continual answers in this ever-changing world. One such issue is how libertarians and classical liberals feel about democracy. In the late 1940s, two of the most influential ...
Letter from Rose Wilder Lane To Leonard Read September 15, 1950
Posted in Document on 19 June 2010
Stats: 463 views and 1 Comment In this Letter to Leonard E. Read, writer Rose Wilder Lane, expresses the problems she has with Ludwig Von Mises' views on democracy.
Posted in Document on 19 June 2010
Stats: 463 views and 1 Comment In this Letter to Leonard E. Read, writer Rose Wilder Lane, expresses the problems she has with Ludwig Von Mises' views on democracy.
Frustrating Michael Moore
Posted in The Goal Is Freedom on 16 October 2009
Stats: 914 views and 28 Comments If Michael Moore would study a little political economy he might turn into a potent champion of individual liberty. As we see in Moore's new movie, Capitalism: A Love Story, Moore is offended by some truly offensive things: banks engaging in wild speculation without concern for the risk, taxpayer bailouts ...
Posted in The Goal Is Freedom on 16 October 2009
Stats: 914 views and 28 Comments If Michael Moore would study a little political economy he might turn into a potent champion of individual liberty. As we see in Moore's new movie, Capitalism: A Love Story, Moore is offended by some truly offensive things: banks engaging in wild speculation without concern for the risk, taxpayer bailouts ...
