Mises Wire
Author:
Anthony Flood
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[Originally published April 4, 2006, at LewRockwell.com] “You would spare these criminals, for some mysterious reason. I would hang them higher than Haman, for reasons of quite obvious justice; still more, still higher, for the sake of historical science.” Thus ends a long passage of a letter from John Emerich Edward Dalberg Acton, First Lord