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Albion’s Seed is a great book about the four migration folkways into the colonies from Great Britain during 1629 through 1775. The groups had many characteristics in common which may be what made future union possible, but the groups were also different. Puritans hated Quakers. Everybody hated Catholics. The competing regional cultures created

The Progressive Era covered the turn of the 19 th -20 th centuries until about WWI. It delivered such delights as the Federal Reserve. Accelerated statism with a philosophical veneer favored experts on boards making economic decisions efficiently. This era birthed the regulatory state. Executive Orders came into being in 1793 under Washington.

Several court cases must be mentioned. Each makes a point. Plessey v. Ferguson : Segregation Separate but equal is ok.  Brown v. Board of Education : Separate schools are inherently unequal . Green v. County School Board of New Kent County : Freedom of choice desegregation plan unconstitutional. Swann v. Charlotte-Mecklenburg Board of Education :

In this episode of the Mises Academy Podcast, Tom Woods interviews Danny Sanchez, who explains Ludwig von Mises’ approach to economics.

Tom Woods, guest host of “The Peter Schiff Show,” interviews Peter Klein, who discusses how the anti-Apartheid movement, Mandela included, erroneously viewed Apartheid as a “capitalist” system, and turned to Marxism-Leninism as the only viable economic (and political)

Interviewed by host Tom Woods, Peter Klein discusses a recent ‘Rolling Stone’ column claiming that Karl Marx predicted the problems of 2014.

Thomas Sowell’s book, Civil Rights, lays bare many of the myths of the Great Society. What did ordinary people do before an advanced welfare state? Anti-poverty programs like the 1965 Job Corps did not turn out well. There was less poverty before the programs. Federal aid to education, like Head Start, did not stop any cycle of poverty. There was

Recorded at the Reassessing the Presidency seminar; March 2004. (31:59)

Thomas E. Woods presents the The Lou Church Memorial Lecture at the 2004 Austrian Scholars Conference.

Recorded 10/16/2004 at Radical Scholarship: The Guerrilla Movement for Liberty. [17:46]