Tag: FDR
ANTONY DAVIES on Unintended Consequences: When Government Policies GO BAD
November 8, 2024 | Video
When we make rules, what do we fail to think about? Well, rules and laws often are well-intentioned, but they ALWAYS have unintended consequences. In this video, filmed live at LibertyCon in Washington, D.C., Economist and Author Antony Davies walks us through 4 policies that have had, or could have, disastrous unintended consequences. CHAPTERS 0:00 […]
Five myths about the Great Depression
September 27, 2022 | Post
The Great Depression is one of the most misunderstood periods in American history. Once you do a little digging, there’s more than meets the eye to this desperate time. Here are some of our top myths about the Great Depression:
Prof. Antony Davies: 7 Myths You Learned in High School About the Great Depression
September 27, 2022 | Video
If you went to high school in America, you were told a lot of things about the Great Depression. Those things were probably wrong. (And they were based on a poor or nonexistent understanding of economics.) Meet Prof. Davies in person! He will be at LibertyCon International in Miami on October 14-15. See the […]
Zora Neale Hurston: a genius of the south and anti-imperialist voice
March 30, 2021 | Post
Within and beyond her literature, Zora Neale Hurston was an outspoken anti-communist who opposed both the New Deal and interventionism abroad
Did the US provoke Japan’s attack on Pearl Harbor?
December 7, 2016 | Post
The common American narrative that Japan launched an entirely unprovoked attack on an American territory — and therefore the US was right to respond in self-defense — is a fiction.
How U.S. economic warfare provoked Japan's attack on Pearl Harbor
December 7, 2016 | Post
There’s more to the story than your U.S. history teacher told you.
Great Myths on the Great Depression
December 15, 2015 | Post
You most likely grew up thinking FDR’s New Deal played a pivotal role in ending the Great Depression, however as professor Stephen Davies points out in this video, there are many myths surrounding the Great Depression were the numbers don’t add up: Top 3 myths about the great depression? Are there any other “myths” you […]