1. Crisis and Liberty
The growth of government power in American history has been by creating emergencies that then necessitate a ratcheting up of centralized power and war...
Crisis and Liberty: The Expansion of Government Power in American History
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Robert Higgs presents a series of ten formal lectures on topics of American history that examine the role of crisis, emergency management, and the military in the emergence of the Leviathan state and diminution of liberty.Download the complete audio of this event (ZIP) here.
2. Crisis and Liberty
The role of ideology in the growth of government is required as intellectual cover for what is done regardless of the government form (e.g. monarchy o...
3. Crisis and Liberty
State and local levels of government were more burdensome to people in the early stages of our country than federal levels. The national government ma...
4. Crisis and Liberty
Government was different in the 19th Century, but not as starkly different as some people believe. The 20th Century was the Progressive Era. Foreign p...
5. Crisis and Liberty
WWI was the culmination of progressivism. It was possible to impose prohibition. The creation of the Fed and the passage of an income tax allowed warf...
6. Crisis and Liberty
The New Deal was not as widely popular as many stories about FDR might suggest. The Depression began about midway through 1929. Prices fell for four y...
7. Crisis and Liberty
WWII was the most terrible, most deadly war of all mankind. As early as 1919 WWII was seen as inevitable because of the destructive details of the Ver...
8. Crisis and Liberty
The post-WWII operation of the national security state has been a major avenue for the expansion of government. A tremendous military-industrial-Congr...
9. Crisis and Liberty
The growth of government since WWII was along non-military lines. These years were crisis years from about 1963 to 1974. Turmoil, conflict and uncerta...
10. Crisis and Liberty
The attack on September 11, 2001, showed us what we can expect from any fresh crisis. Military forces were assigned to domestic police activities. Pol...