History
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No Sanitized Pages in History, Please!
A free press and an open intellectual environment is one that should not only challenge the words and deeds of governments in the name of liberty, but should unearth, investigate, and inform the professional and lay public about the realities and truths of the world in which we all live, in both their ugliness and…
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Edward C. Harwood: A Biographical Sketch in Film
Edward C. Harwood (1900-1980) is one of the 20th century’s most eloquent and effective voices for economic science, sound money, and market freedom. This is the story of his life and work.
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The Founding Father of Eco-Fascism
The eco-fascist screed from the New Zealand murder comes across as crude and low-level, the wild ramblers of a trash-talking 20-something raised on 4chan, 8chan, and the most hateful parts of the Internet. It was not always so. Men with the same views, much more sophisticated in expression but just as violent in effect, once…
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The Killer Had An Ideology
The ideology of hate that spilled so much blood in New Zealand is best avenged through a new dedication to a social philosophy of love, cooperation, and freedom for all.
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Why Expert Opinion Has Value Even When It Is Wrong
Neither consumers of expert opinion nor experts themselves will ever fully transcend their biases, nor should they. But when experts disagree, it behooves us to avoid as best we can hunkering down into black-and-white thinking that conveniently accommodates those preexisting biases.
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Books On Liberty that You Haven’t Read but Should
This great variety of influential books testifies to the richness of the libertarian scholarly tradition. It’s filled with remarkable works of scholarship that are not (yet) as widely known and read as they deserve to be.
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Carl Menger: A Biographical Appreciation by Friedrich von Wieser
AIER is pleased to present the first English translation of Friedrich von Wieser’s memorial appreciation of Carl Menger, the founder of the Austrian School, published in German not long after Menger’s passing in 1921. Wieser (1851-1926) was one of the leading contributors in the “second generation” of the Austrian School of Economics.
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The Veneer of Civilization Slipped Away
Every idealist hopes that humankind can learn from history. There is plenty of evidence that we do not.
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The Death of Karl Lagerfeld, and Clothing Too
The death of Lagerfeld does not mean the certain and forever death of elegance. His death might shock us all into a new sensibility that helps us all see what he saw: if we want the world to be beautiful, we have to make it so.
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Who Can Claim Credit for the Karl Marx Monument?
Is there an ethical case to remove the Karl Marx monument from London’s Highgate Cemetery on account of its Bolshevik connections?
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No Sanitized Pages in History, Please!
A free press and an open intellectual environment is one that should not only challenge the words and deeds of governments in the name of liberty, but should unearth, investigate, and inform the professional and lay public about the realities and truths of the world in which we all live, in both their ugliness and…
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Edward C. Harwood: A Biographical Sketch in Film
Edward C. Harwood (1900-1980) is one of the 20th century’s most eloquent and effective voices for economic science, sound money, and market freedom. This is the story of his life and work.
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The Founding Father of Eco-Fascism
The eco-fascist screed from the New Zealand murder comes across as crude and low-level, the wild ramblers of a trash-talking 20-something raised on 4chan, 8chan, and the most hateful parts of the Internet. It was not always so. Men with the same views, much more sophisticated in expression but just as violent in effect, once…
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The Killer Had An Ideology
The ideology of hate that spilled so much blood in New Zealand is best avenged through a new dedication to a social philosophy of love, cooperation, and freedom for all.
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Why Expert Opinion Has Value Even When It Is Wrong
Neither consumers of expert opinion nor experts themselves will ever fully transcend their biases, nor should they. But when experts disagree, it behooves us to avoid as best we can hunkering down into black-and-white thinking that conveniently accommodates those preexisting biases.
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•
Books On Liberty that You Haven’t Read but Should
This great variety of influential books testifies to the richness of the libertarian scholarly tradition. It’s filled with remarkable works of scholarship that are not (yet) as widely known and read as they deserve to be.
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•
Carl Menger: A Biographical Appreciation by Friedrich von Wieser
AIER is pleased to present the first English translation of Friedrich von Wieser’s memorial appreciation of Carl Menger, the founder of the Austrian School, published in German not long after Menger’s passing in 1921. Wieser (1851-1926) was one of the leading contributors in the “second generation” of the Austrian School of Economics.
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The Veneer of Civilization Slipped Away
Every idealist hopes that humankind can learn from history. There is plenty of evidence that we do not.
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The Death of Karl Lagerfeld, and Clothing Too
The death of Lagerfeld does not mean the certain and forever death of elegance. His death might shock us all into a new sensibility that helps us all see what he saw: if we want the world to be beautiful, we have to make it so.
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Who Can Claim Credit for the Karl Marx Monument?
Is there an ethical case to remove the Karl Marx monument from London’s Highgate Cemetery on account of its Bolshevik connections?