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The Leading Mises Scholar on the Man and His Legacy

JEFF DEIST: You are German, but not from a big city in Germany.

GUIDO HÜLSMANN: That’s correct, a small town.

JD: Did your small-town upbringing influence your career and outlook?

GH: I think so. The town where I went to high school in those years had the highest communist voter percentage in all of Western Germany. And this presence made itself felt also in the school, not necessarily among the teachers, although there was at least one communist, but especially among the student body. We alw...

Trump Is Pushing Germany and Russia To Settle Their Differences

During this past Saturday, 18 August, Russian President Vladimir Putin made a brief visit to Austria to attend the wedding of the country’s Minister of Foreign Affairs Karin Kneissl.  Per the Kremlin, this stop of several hours in the Styrian wine country not far from the border with Slovenia was a “purely private” side excursion “on the road to Germany” for the state visit with Chancellor Angela Merkel starting later in the day at the Meseberg Palace, the federal guest house 60 km north of B...

The Hidden History of World War I

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Rockwell: Well, good morning.  This is Lew Rockwell. What an honor to have as our guest this morning, Judge John V. Denson.  Judge Denson is not only an important lawyer in Alabama and nationally, but a revisionist historian.  His book, A Century of War, is a tremendous introduction to the crimes of Lincoln, Wilson, and Franklin Roosevelt.  His edited books, The Costs of War and Reassessing the Presidency are also very important works.

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Western Civilization

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If you have concluded that a small handful of crazed morons control the words we are permitted to use, you are correct. The LGBT (Lesbian-gay-bisexual-transgender) community has decided that the word “vagina” is not gender-inclusive. The new unbiased designation of vagina is “front hole.”

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Media Mock Murder of Mollie Tibbetts

See also: MSNBC panelist labels Mollie Tibbetts a ‘girl in Iowa’ ‘Fox News is talking about’

After whipping up such a brouhaha about illegal immigrants being separated from their children as a result of their lawbreaking, the press was confronted with new story about illegals to report and comment upon, and it didn’t quite tug on the heartstrings the way the crying toddlers narrative did.

According to the New York Times:

A body believed to be that of Mollie Tibbetts, a 20-year-old student at...

Obama’s Climate Legacy

Obama’s climate legacy is toast.

The Clean Power Plan – designed to be the centerpiece of his presidency-defining mission to combat climate change – has been watered down to the point of irrelevance by the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA).

Replacing it is the snappily-named Affordable Clean Energy (ACE) rule.

Advance Notice of Proposed Rulemaking 
In December 2017, EPA issued an Advance Notice of Proposed Rulemaking (ANPRM) to solicit information from the public about a potential future...

Russia Stockpiles Gold

The Central Bank of Russia bought 26.1 tons of gold in July, bringing its holdings to 2,170 tons, according to International Monetary Fund data compiled by Bloomberg. It’s the largest single monthly purchase since late 2017.

The stockpile was valued at $77.4 billion at the end of last month, according to the Russian central bank’s website. At current prices, the reserves are worth around $83.6 billion.

Russian bullion holdings are approaching the Soviet peak of 2,800 tons, which were seen in...

Controversy Surrounding the Ice Ages

History is always written by the winners. When two cultures clash, the loser is obliterated, and the winner writes the history books-books which glorify their own cause and disparage the conquered foe. As Napoleon once said, ‘What is history, but a fable agreed upon?’ – Dan Brown, The Da Vinci Code

Truth is, we don’t know much about history, not only is history written by the victors of past conflict, stories regarding accounts of our past in various fields are also skewed. As Graham Hancock...

Christian, Germanic, Medieval

Freedom’s Progress?: A History of Political Thought, by Gerard Casey

…compared with the statist, pillaging, slave-based and tax-burdened nightmare that was fifth-century Rome, ‘the world of the so-called barbarians was free and enlightened,’ with superior economic and personal freedoms.

Casey offers an examination of the European Middle Ages.  To summarize my view of this period: the European Middle Ages – at least for those regions influenced by the combination of the Germanic and the Christ...

Silent Sam and Me

In September of 1961, I left my job at a basket factory in Wilmington, North Carolina and hitch-hiked up to Chapel Hill to become a student there. I followed in the path of UNC’s very first student, a boy named Hinton James, who had famously walked those roads up from Pender County back in 1789. As befits the first student at the first State University, he did not come by carriage.

My last ride was in the cab of a well-weathered farm truck. The grizzled driver wished me well and let me out in...