The works of Leonard E. Read, who founded the Foundation for Economic Education (FEE) in 1946, are now online at the Mises Institute. It is probably not the complete collected works, but it is all that he collected in book form. These are books that shaped several generations of activists, donors, writers, and intellectuals. They are the books
In this interview with Jeffrey Tucker, Dr. Mark Thornton, the compiler and general editor of “The Bastiat Collection,” explains Bastiat’s significance, and tells the fascinating story of how this definitive collection came to be. He further explains its significance for the future of liberty. Recorded at the Mises Institute on August 23,
Jeffrey Tucker interviews Mark Thornton, senior fellow at the Ludwig von Mises Institute, and editor of the new translation of Richard Cantillon’s 1755 masterpiece, An Essay on Economic Theory . Recorded 27 August 2010.
I know it’s not Father’s Day but I can’t help thinking about him anyway. He was really crazy in a wonderful sort of way. Where to start? Oh, let’s talk about money. For years he directed music at our family’s church. He was outstanding. He was a composer too. He once wrote a full-blown cantata about the history of this particular church, complete
Part of the difficulty of understanding Mark Twain’s political outlook is due to terminology and the tendency of politics to corrupt the meaning of everything. As often as you see him called a liberal, he is called a conservative, and sometimes both in the same breath. Critics puzzle about how one person could be champion of workers, owners, and
The latest chapter of John T. Flynn’s Men of Wealth that has my head spinning concerns someone I probably should have known about, except that late 19th-century Wall Street lore is in short supply these days. But thanks to Flynn, I now know all about Hetty Green (1834–1916), whose weird and creepy life now haunts me to no end. She was the richest
For an earlier generation of American dissidents from the prevailing ideology of left-liberalism, a rite of passage was reading Albert Jay Nock’s Memoirs of a Superfluous Man , which appeared in 1943. William F. Buckley was hardly alone in seeing it as a seminal text crucial to his personal formation. Here it is in one package, an illustration of
Introduction The Life of Garrett The Novels The New Deal Empire Bibliography If Garet Garrett (1878–1954) is known at all today, it is by those who are captivated by the handful of intellectuals who wrote in opposition to the New Deal planning state and the regimentation of national life it brought about. They were a rare breed, but there is much
[This memorial for Henry Hazlitt originally appeared in The Free Market , September 1993, Volume 11, Number 9.] Old Right journalist Garet Garrett described the New Deal as a revolution against America’s tradition of private property, limited government, and the rule of law. Indeed, it had all the earmarks. President Roosevelt ran against
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