World History

Although most of Europe has long forgotten Misesian thinking, Prince Michael of Liechtenstein is an exception.

Like many colonial ventures, Belgium's involvement in the Congo had some successes—and many failures.

Progressives have distinguished themselves in the past half century by being against progress. That trend is unlikely to change.

The recent actions of the Federal Reserve are reminiscent of central bank activities in wartime.

Even under chattel slavery, inequality was still pervasive. Carpenters, sugar boilers, blacksmiths, cabinetmakers, and rum distillers constituted an elite core of slaves.

Featuring Per Bylund, Lucas Engelhardt, Karl-Friedrich Israel, Tate Fegley, Shawn Ritenour, and Timothy Terrell.

Social democrats are so desperate to cast off limits on government that they'll embrace anything that justifies their ambitions. So they invent theories of money that are very, very wrong.  

Recorded at the Mises Institute in Auburn, Alabama, on 26 July 2023.

Postwar Germany was occupied, in ruins, with an economy in chaos. Germans were reduced to using cigarettes supplied by American GIs as money.

The East German secret police, the Stasi, developed the art of mass surveillance using pre-digital  methods. Modern tech now makes the job a lot easier.