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There might be something you can use here:

http://perc.org/blog/non-tragedy-bison-commons
http://perc.org/articles/bye-bye-bison

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I would have a look at Thomas Sowell’s book Civil Rights: Rhetoric or Reality? Some interesting statistics in there about black employment before and after the Civil Rights Act of 1964. Sowell is implicitly saying that government winds up getting all the credit for things blacks themselves did. I can’t remember if there’s anything useful in Sowell’s book Markets and Minorities. I’d also recommend looking into S.B. Fuller, the entrepreneur I talk about in 33 Questions About American History You’re Not Supposed to Ask.

Walter Williams’ book The State Against Blacks, while a bit dated now, shows the other side of the story: all the not-so-obvious ways blacks have been hurt by the state. We hear all about the wonderful things the state has done, but not about these things.

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I’m not aware of one; I think Google searches are about all you can do.

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I don’t know offhand, but I’ll try to find out.

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I made an argument for gun rights based on the Ninth Amendment in The Politically Incorrect Guide to American History.

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I myself can’t recommend books on this subject, because I came to the conclusion long ago that in order to have a credible opinion on this matter, one would have to devote an enormous amount of time to reading a great many books. I haven’t been willing to make the investment of time.

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There is a recent book on Grover Cleveland that treats him sympathetically: Ryan S. Walters, The Last Jeffersonian. But it leaves a great deal to be desired. Other reasonably sympathetic treatments are Allan Nevins, Grover Cleveland: A Study in Courage and Alyn Brodsky, Grover Cleveland: A Study in Character.

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I wouldn’t rule this out, but probably not in the near term.

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Unfortunately, Vokle, the platform we used, suddenly experienced serious problems with its recording side. (It can still do live streams.) As a result, I fear that session with Dr. Jewell may be lost forever. That is a terrible shame, because it was really an excellent session.

For December’s session, which we will do after Christmas, we’ll use Vokle for the live stream, but in tandem with a different recording method. My apologies for this problem.

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I would go ahead and ask Dr. Casey about this in the logic forum, even though it’s not about logic.

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I just posted about this thread over at TomWoods.com. I love the idea of blogging your responses to your friends. Let others benefit, even if your friends don’t seem to.

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I believe the cookie stays with the user for a year, unless he manually removes all cookies.

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Rothbard was definitely not influenced by Strauss; see his work on Strauss in Roberta Modugno’s edited volume Rothbard vs. the Philosophers: http://library.mises.org/books/Roberta%20A%20Modugno/Murray%20N%20Rothbard%20vs%20The%20Philosophers%20Unpublished%20Writings%20on%20Hayek,%20Mises,%20Strauss,%20and%20Polanyi.pdf

Rothbard communicated this view of Locke to me in person, when I asked him about a Lockean inconsistency (I think it was military conscription, provided for in the Fundamental Constitutions of Carolina). He said Locke was on the run or in hiding so much that we shouldn’t be surprised if at times he hedged or failed to take his philosophy to its logical conclusion. It’s necessarily speculative, but not implausible.

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I think the situation with Shays’s Rebellion wasn’t so much that they were being paid in worthless paper as it was that they had sold debt instruments to speculators for pennies on the dollar, and now they were being asked to fund those instruments at face value, in specie.

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I had Srdja Trifkovic read over my Balkans chapters, as a matter of fact.

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