A surprising range of news and opinion outlets have memorialized a string of anniversaries related to the Great War over the last few months: the assassination of the Archduke, the July Crisis, the start of the war, etc. Newspapers, magazines, the blog world, the top ten list sites, and Youtube channels have all featured anniversary observations.
[ Classical Liberalism and the Austrian School • Foreword by Jörg Guido Hülsmann, Preface by David Gordon • Ludwig von Mises Institute, 2012] Hunt Tooley will be teaching World War One: Crucible of the Age of Statism , an online course at the Mises Academy. Ralph Raico has played a central role in the resurgence of the Austrian School of thought
The desperately sad situations in Iraq and Afghanistan, and the dramatic contrast between the promises and the realities of war, have brought into sharp relief the moral and practical calamity of US foreign policy. But while it is tempting to fix blame on only the current managers who occupy the White House, we must also consider the larger
The costs of the Great War were truly astronomical. As with the number of stars, the final accounting is in God’s hands. The slaughters, the treasure, the faith in some kind of order of society—all of these were costs of the war. As Wilfred Owen suggested in his terrible poem “Strange Meeting,” the culture of Europe seemed hell-bent on trekking
I had a great teaching experience early last school year. I taught the history of inflation, and I have never timed a course better. I have taught in colleges and universities since 1985, and I have often thought about doing a course on the history of inflation. But this time, current events pushed me to go ahead. Of course, it was clear to me
[ Editor’s Note: Trump is reportedly set to nominate Acting Defense Secretary Patrick Shanahan, a former Boeing executive, as Secretary of Defense. Given his background, Shanahan looks to fit the typical bill for the job. In this 2013 article, historian Hunt Tooley discusses where secretaries of state come from, and why they are all so similar in
Editor’s Note: Hunt Tooley, Professor of History at Austin College, will be teaching “The Interwar Years” beginning on January 22 at 5:30 p.m. This six-lecture course will examine the years between the two World Wars and cover the “rebuilding” of the war-torn world, inflation and depression, financial manipulation, neo-mercantilism, and the vast
The fiftieth anniversary of the First World War in 1964 felt nothing like the current centennial observances. It is worth asking what has changed. When I was growing up in the sixties in a small town in Texas, World War I seemed as remote to me as the Revolutionary War. Not that the conflict was not unknown to me. In our city park there was a
[Nota del editor: Se dice que Trump está a punto de nominar al Secretario de Defensa en funciones Patrick Shanahan, un ex ejecutivo de Boeing, como Secretario de Defensa. Dados sus antecedentes, Shanahan parece encajar en el proyecto de ley típico del trabajo. En este artículo de 2013, el historiador Hunt Tooley discute de dónde vienen los
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