New Literature and update
Some wonderful new material in literature, including Garrett, Stan Evans, Duncombe, and James Martin.
For those who enjoy development news, we will very soon start work on integrating a Google Mini for Mises.org indexing. We long ago exhausted the limits of the free apps, so this new tool should permit deep indexing of all PDF files and media files and providing a vastly more flexible and detailed search experience. We are looking at a two to four week period of implementation here.
Comments (9)
vincent
great Mr Tucker! keep on the good work!
Published: May 27, 2009 11:29 AM
Wladimir Kraus
Marx Eastman's book "Reflections on the Failure of Socialism" promises to be a good one. This passage has caught my attention:
"Any state religion, as all the great liberals have pointed out, is death to human freedom. The separation of church and state is one of the main measures of protection against tyranny. But the Marxian religion makes this separation impossible, for its creed is politics; its church is the state. There is no hope within its dogmas of any evolution toward the free society it promises."
Published: May 27, 2009 1:58 PM
Wladimir Kraus
And the goodies keep on coming ...
"The phony elections in totalitarian countries, the ballots with only one party and one list of candidates, are not the mere tricks of a cynical dictator-they are intrinsic to a stateplanned economy. Either phony elections or no elections at all-that is what thoroughgoing socialism will mean, no matter who brings it in-hard-headed Bolsheviks, soft-headed Social Democrats, or genteel liberals. Even now, with government handling only a third of our national income, it took the most popular candidate since George Washington to defeat the party in power. Even he could not carry in a Congress heartily in opposition. How could you unseat an administration with every enterprise and every wage and salary in the country in its direct control? Nat only private self-interest would prevent it, and that would be a force like gravitation, but public prudence also-patriotism! "Don't change horses in midstream," we say. But we'd be in midstream all the time with the entire livelihood of the nation dependent upon an unfulfilled plan in the hands of those in office. "Don't rock the boat" would be the eternal slogan, the gist of political morals. That these morals would have to be enforced by the criminal law is as certain as that mankind is man." (p. 28)
Now, this is powerful and really decent stuff, and, as one can see, a good read too!
Published: May 27, 2009 2:43 PM
Daniel C
Heroic!
Published: May 27, 2009 3:19 PM
sheridan
It would be great if you could post more of Wilhelm Ropke's works :)
Published: May 27, 2009 3:37 PM
jeffrey
I think we have most of the best of Roepke up there.
I would be very very interested to hear any opinions about Garrett's American Story. When I read through it the first time, it seemed a bit too civic minded. But now I'm thinking that it might be worth reprinting. I mean, there's nothing out there for regular junior high or high school civics classes these days. This is a pretty good overview despite errors in places.
Can someone give it the once over and offer an opinion please?
Published: May 27, 2009 4:09 PM
Conza88
Great! Better search-ability is a must need. To the top of google we go!
Published: May 27, 2009 9:23 PM
jeffrey
Well, this little box only provides internal search enhancements as a replacement for the free app we have there now. it will be a great thing for Mises.org users but I'm not counting on broader benefits. then, again, who knows.
Published: May 27, 2009 10:27 PM
Arend
Once in a while I'm thinking of some quotes and fail remember where they came from. Using Google sometimes resolves this, just by typing e.g. "tu ne cede malis site:mises.org". But other times I find nothing. This added search feature would be great!
Published: May 28, 2009 1:05 AM