WAIT!
You and I are now experiencing what it’s like to live in a genuine madhouse.
You know what I mean. It’s as if everything said by every official outlet is distorted, mistaken, or simply made up. It is downright astonishing the outright falsehoods that so many so-called educated people believe.
Progressivism is wrong in every single particular, and yet it dominates every major institution.
For example: Critical Race Theory (CRT) demands we believe that “systemic racism” is the catch-all explanation for racial differences in various outcomes. Thomas Sowell spent his entire career blasting this thesis out of the water, but don’t worry: CRT people just pretend Sowell doesn’t exist.
Meanwhile, every last government course on Earth begins by simply assuming, among other things, (1) the moral legitimacy of government action, (2) the need for government action to reverse “market failure,” and (3) the lack of any systematic form of “government failure” that ought to be studied with anything like the academic obsession with so-called market failure.
A curious person — like you, dear reader — isn’t impressed by people who assume the very things that need to be proven.
When Ron Paul asked me to create courses for his homeschool curriculum, I jumped at the chance.
I would put my Columbia University Ph.D. at the service of questioning the state, as opposed to being a lackey for it, as almost everyone else from Columbia winds up being.
One of them is a course on government that is unlike any government course I am aware of anywhere: it tells the unvarnished truth, and relentlessly.
What you’re about to see is the result of 20+ years of study, crammed into half an academic year. Time savings to you: 19 1/2 years.
We’re talking 90 videos (or audio for on the go) covering every major issue I could think of, and arming you with the kind of knowledge you’ll want to have during those rare opportunities when someone with a genuinely open mind seeks your opinion.
Then, too, let’s be honest with each other: there is something cathartic in seeing socially destructive myths smashed mercilessly.
Here are the topics:
1. Introduction
2. Natural Rights Theories: High Middle Ages to Late Scholastics
3. Natural Rights Theories: John Locke and Self-Ownership
4. Natural Rights Theories: Argumentation Ethics
5. Week 1 Review
6. Locke and Spooner on Consent
7. The Tale of the Slave
8. Human Rights and Property Rights
9. Negative Rights and Positive Rights
10. Week 2 Review
11. Jean-Jacques Rousseau and the General Will
12. Critics of Liberalism: John Rawls and Egalitarianism
13. Critics of Liberalism: Thomas Nagel and Ronald Dworkin
14. Critics of Liberalism: G.A. Cohen
15. Week 3 Review
16. Public Goods
17. The Standard of Living
18. Poverty
19. Monopoly
20. Week 4 Review
21. Science
22. Inequality
23. Development Aid
24. Discrimination
25. Week 5 Review
26. The Socialist Calculation Problem
27. Working Conditions
28. Child Labor
29. Labor and Unions
30. Week 6 Review
31. Health Care
32. Antitrust
33. Farm Programs
34. War and the Economy
35. Week 7 Review
36. Business Cycles
37. Industrial Policy
38. Government, the Market, and the Environment
39. Prohibition
40. Week 8 Review
41. Taxation
42. Government Spending
43. The Welfare State: Theoretical Issues
44. The Welfare State: Practical Issues
45. Week 9 Review
46. Price Controls
47. Government and Money, Part I
48. Government and Money, Part II
49. Midterm Review
50. Week 10 Review
51. The Theory of the Modern State
52. American Federalism and the Compact Theory
53. Can Political Bodies Be Too Large?
54. Decentralization
55. Week 11 Review
56. Constitutionalism: Purpose
57. The American Case: Self-Government and the Tenth Amendment
58. The American Case: Progressives and the “Living, Breathing Document”
59. The American States and the Federal Government
60. Week 12 Review
61. Monarchy
62. Social Democracy
63. Fascism I
64. Fascism II
65. Week 13 Review
66. Marx I
67. Marx II
68. Communism I
69. Communism II
70. Week 14 Review
71. Miscellaneous Intervention: Postwar Africa
72. Public Choice I
73. Public Choice II
74. Miscellaneous Examples of Government Activity and Incentives
75. Week 15 Review
76. The Industrial Revolution
77. The New Deal I
78. The New Deal II
79. The Housing Bust of 2008
80. Week 16 Review
81. Are Voters Informed?
82. Is Political Representation Meaningful?
83. The Myth of the Rule of Law
84. The Incentives of Democracy
85. Week 17 Review
86. The Sweeping Critique: Lefevre
87. The Sweeping Critique: Murray N. Rothbard
88. Case Study: The Old West
89. The Economic Freedom of the World
90. What Have We Learned?
I normally sell this course at TomWoodsHomeschool.com for $50, but if you’d like to pick it up today it’s a mere $27 — for the knowledge the bad guys don’t want you to have, and which would take half a lifetime to acquire the old-fashioned way.
Treat yourself, and save the world while you’re at it: