Allen Mendenhall from Faulkner University Law School joins Jeff Deist to break down the hyper-politicized spectacle of the Kavanaugh confirmation hearings. How did the Supreme Court become so wildly powerful, even while rubber-stamping the excesses of the executive and legislative branches? How much longer can America survive having deeply
A special Question-and-Answer period at the Mises Institute’s 2018 Supporters Summit in Auburn, Alabama. Recorded on September 28, 2018. Emceed by Mark Thornton.
Attorney General Jeff Sessions was at it again last week, insisting that the supremacy of federal law is “settled”—which is his way of saying nullification and secession are illegal. But Sessions is hardly alone in his thinking, which would be right at home on the pages of Salon or National Review. Michael Boldin of the Tenth Amendment Center
The great James Bovard addresses our annual research conference in Auburn on the dismal failures of government regulation — from farm subsidies to steel tariffs to FDA drug trials.
Jeff Deist welcomes guests to the Mises Circle in Fort Worth: “Will the American Economy Survive in 2018?” Recorded in Fort Worth, Texas, on 2 June 2018. Includes an introduction by Ryan
Jeff Deist joins his friend “Mance Rayder” to discuss the political and economic state of the union, the endless fractures within libertarianism, a different way to look at immigration, and how Rothbard’s fans and detractors alike benefit from reading
Mary Ruwart is a PhD chemist who worked for 20 years in Big Pharma, and she’s seen regulatory capture at the FDA up close. She joins Mises Weekends to discuss the sobering reality of our medical cartel, and what all of us must do in the fight for health freedom in the US. How does government thwart radical research that might eliminate cancer,
The Most Important Election of our Lifetime™ may be a referendum on Trump, Kavanaugh, #metoo, migrant caravans, or any number of manufactured outrages since the 2016 presidential election. It will not be a referendum on foreign policy, the Federal Reserve, debt, spending entitlements, spying, civil liberties, or anything important with regard to
Globalists: The End of Empire and the Birth of Neoliberalism by Quinn Slobodian Harvard University Press, 2018 x+381 pages Quinn Slobodian, a historian at Wellesley College, tells us that Globalists “is a long-simmering product of the Seattle protests against the World Trade organization in 1999. I was part of a generation that ... became
La Elección Más Importante de Nuestra Vida™ puede ser un referéndum sobre Trump, Kavanaugh, #metoo, caravanas de migrantes o cualquier fabrica de indignación desde la elección presidencial de 2016. No será un referéndum sobre política exterior, la Reserva Federal, la deuda, los derechos al gasto, el espionaje, las libertades civiles o cualquier
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