Culture Wars and Secession 

Recently the Mises Institute held a seminar in Orlando titled “The Uncertain Prospects for Liberty” with Jeff Deist and Robert Murphy. Here is Murphy’s lecture on culture wars. https://mises.org/system/tdf/02_Murphy_Orlando_20171209.mp3 Source:...

Independence for Catalonia, Bavaria, Veneto

by Walter Williams Officials in Catalonia, Spain’s richest and most highly industrialized region, whose capital is Barcelona, recently held a referendum in which there was a 92 percent vote in favor of independence from Spain. The Spanish authorities opposed the...

In Europe, Exploited Regional Populations Are Growing Restless

by Jeff Thomas Recently, the people of two of Italy’s most prosperous regions voted in a referendum, on whether they wished to have greater autonomy from Rome. The referendum is non-binding, but that’s not what’s most significant in the results. What is significant is...

Did Tariffs Really Cause the American Civil War?

by Chris Calton In the first episode of the new season of Historical Controversies, which will focus on the sectional crises that led to the Civil War, I gave a brief explanation of my problem with the “Tariff Thesis” for the cause of southern secession. My arguments...

Jeff Deist on Why Smaller is Better 

Virtually every aspect of human life becomes more decentralized every day. Technology makes the old hub-and-spoke model of organizations obsolete; highly diffuse and ever-changing networks are the order of the day. So why is governance going in the other direction,...
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