The Mexican War 1846-48 involved unpaid debts to Americans, a desire for West coast territory, and the issue of Texas whose independence was not recognized by Mexico. The Southern boundary was in dispute also. Polk’s administration wanted to provoke a Mexican attack. Congress actually censored President Polk for that action. In the 1854, the
Ask the typical undergraduate to discuss the ideas advanced in the Virginia and Kentucky Resolutions of 1798 and you may as well be asking for an overview of the Copenhagen interpretation of quantum physics. Yet these nearly forgotten documents fully merit a place among the most important political writings in American history, both in terms of
I knew that the New York Times review , which I’d heard was coming, would be in a class by itself. But I had no idea that I was such a dangerous person that it would run on the editorial page. I told radio talk show hosts all week that if the Times’ review of my book wasn’t a hatchet job, I’d buy them dinner. Needless to say, and as I fully
Joe Lockard, a professor of American literature at Arizona State University, is the latest entrant in the hate-Tom-Woods parade. According to Lockard, I’m just dead wrong from page one. Here is my full response to his sweeping attack
Apropos Stephen Carson comes another discussion about entrepreneurs and business models: The long tail of software. Millions of Markets of Dozens. You know the real reason Excite went out of business? We couldn’t figure out how to make money from 97% of our traffic. We couldn’t figure out how to make money from the long tail – from those queries
Four months have passed since the release of The Politically Incorrect Guide to American History and much of the frenzy surrounding it has begun to die down. I’ve had a few moments of leisure to consider the response to it, and what it all means. This is a book written between two other books — an intellectual history of the Progressive Era and
More crank theories have been advanced about money and banking than about any other economic topic. While it is not difficult to find people who oppose the Federal Reserve System, all too many such opponents would replace it with something at least as bad. Although Catholic thinkers have not been notably worse than their non-Catholic counterparts
What is the Mises Institute?
The Mises Institute is a non-profit organization that exists to promote teaching and research in the Austrian School of economics, individual freedom, honest history, and international peace, in the tradition of Ludwig von Mises and Murray N. Rothbard.
Non-political, non-partisan, and non-PC, we advocate a radical shift in the intellectual climate, away from statism and toward a private property order. We believe that our foundational ideas are of permanent value, and oppose all efforts at compromise, sellout, and amalgamation of these ideas with fashionable political, cultural, and social doctrines inimical to their spirit.