George Smith on commodity money:

Starting tonight: an online course with David Gordon exploring the ideas of the classical economists, using Rothbard’s magnificent history of economic thought.

Join Walter Block on Friday, May 4 at 7pm Eastern for a private webinar on Free Market Environmentalism.

Dr. Block writes:

All too often free enterprise is blamed for environmental problems. I will demonstrate that the real problem is statist takeovers of private enterprise and violation of private property rights. Examples to be discussed: air pollution, species extinction, global warming, plastic bags, environmental racism, deforestation (emphasis on Brazilian rain forest disappearance), and, during the discussion period, any other environmental issue anyone wants to bring up.

Lew Rockwell on The Political Economy of War with Thomas DiLorenzo, which started last night, but is still open for enrollment:

After all, war is one of the State’s two signature activities (the other being taxation). War enhances the State’s power and glory, dampens dissent and the economy, and moves any country towards omnipotent government. In our own country, every war has enriched the State, and amplified its power, while attacking and shrinking society. In our own day of perpetual war, economic crisis, and increasing totalitarianism via the Pentagon, what could be more important than understanding “The Political Economy of War”? Thank goodness Tom DiLorenzo is teaching such a course… Tom is an extraordinary teacher, and this course will be scholarly, accessible, important, and hugely entertaining. Not to mention educational!

And Lew on The Betrayal of the American Right and the Rise of the Neoconservatives with David Gordon, which starts next week:

The neoconservative movement bestrides, like a clay-footed colossus, every rotten activity of the US government, from war to welfare, from the police state to the empire. How did a small group of ex-Trotskyites come to take over large swaths of the conservative movement, the Republican and Democratic parties, and much of the State itself? We must know the enemy, so David Gordon’s course couldn’t come at a better time. Funny and brilliant, David provides a scholarly and fun rundown of the movement running down our society. Using Murray Rothbard’s Betrayal of the American Right and many other works, he talks about such men as Leo Strauss, the philosopher of the “noble lie,” William F. Buckley, Jr., the CIA agent to who purged the American Right of its antiwar, anti-empire heritage, and many other chilling figures. With this course, you will understand an insidious movement, and why it is, for example, Ron Paul’s biggest enemy. We must know these enemies of freedom, their origins and their tactics—and their real ideology—to be well-equipped for the battle. Thank you, Dr. Gordon, for supplying the ammo. Oh, and did I mention that this may be David’s most un-PC course yet? Sign up!

Also coming up, Defending the Undefendable with Walter Block and Principles of Economics with Robert Murphy!

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DiLorenzo, Gordon, and Block.  Sign up today!

Free Mises Academy Lecture!  Audio recording of “The Value of Money”: Lecture 4 from Mises on Money and Banking with Robert P. Murphy, which is still open for enrollment.  Slides for this lecture here.

This course will use Mises’ Omnipotent Government as its main text.  Professor Tooley is a wonderfully solicitous and engaging instructor, and a fantastic historian.  David Gordon has this to say about the instructor and the course:

 ”Hunt Tooley is one of the best living historians of modern Europe, and his work displays a penetrating intelligence and mastery of the sources. His course on the Totalitarians is sure to be outstanding, and I urge everyone to take it.”

Read more about it here.  Sign up here.

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Lew Rockwell writes:

Learning freedom is exhilarating. And there is still time to join a great teacher—Tom DiLorenzo—in examining a forbidden topic: the libertarian tradition of secession and states rights. But psst: don’t tell the NY Times. The course, which is just $95, starts tonight. Sign up!