by Rhett | Dec 29, 2017 | News
Jeff Deist writes: Dr. Robert Murphy and I enjoyed a robust discussion of the current political landscape this past weekend at the University of Central Florida. A significant percentage of attendees, maybe half, agreed with the proposition that the US is past the...
by Rhett | Dec 28, 2017 | News
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:...
by Rhett | Dec 8, 2017 | News
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...
by Rhett | Dec 6, 2017 | News
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...
by Rhett | Dec 5, 2017 | Ideas
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...
