Links for June 2025

30 Jun 2025 – personal

• Lecture series: The Politically Incorrect Guide to American History by Thomas E. Woods (recorded between September 2006 and March 2007). 15 relatively short lectures based on Woods’ book of the same title (2004). 14 of the 15 lectures are also available in Mises.org, including a download link. ¹
• Lectures from the Revisionist History of War Conference (RHWC) hosted by the Ludwig von Mises Institue in May:
  • The Marshall Plan Slush Fund: Cronyism for US Exporters by Patrick Newman (2025-05-16).
  • The Righteous Cause Conquers the World by Brion McClanahan (2025-05-17).
  • How Washington Started the New Cold War with Russia and the Catastrophe in Ukraine by Scott Horton (2025-05-17).
• Reconsidering Reconstruction Reconsidered by Marcel Dumas Gautreau (2025-06-09). A friendly critique of Wanjiru Njoya’s RHWC lecture titled Reconstruction Reconsidered, in which he argues that she could have made a better case for the Confederate secessionist cause and, more generally, the broader cause of national self-determination. ²
• Some great lectures and podcast episodes by Robert P. Murphy:
  • Perfecting the Libertarian Argument for Dealing with the Drug Cartels (2025-03-07).
  • Trump’s Tariffs: Triffin Is Wrong, Ron Paul Is Right (2025-04-09).
  • The Crucial Principle and Data At Stake in the SoHo Immigration Debate (2025-05-30).
  • How Would Private Courts and Military Defense Work? Bob Murphy Lectures Menger Institute (2025-06-03).
• Missing Heritability: Much More Than You Wanted To Know by Scott Alexander (2025-06-26).
• Did Christianity make Europeans WEIRD? by Peter Frost (2025-06-26).
• The New-Neoconservatives and the Managerial Revolution by David Brady (2025-05-12).
• On AI Acceleration and Its Discontents by Ubersoy (2025-02-09).
• Right-Wing Pseudohistory: Part 1 by Arctotherium (2025-06-07). Exposes the lack of substance in Curtis Yarvin’s Twitter thread about the Rheinwiesenlager. ³
• You Can Lead a Horse to Banking by The Calipers (2025-06-07).
• What is dangerous for pregnant women? by Emil Kirkegaard (2025-06-10).
• Stereotype Accuracy is One of the Largest and Most Replicable Effects in All of Social Psychology by Lee Jussim (2016-02-16).
• Electric Yggdrasil by John Carter (2023-04-05).

Footnotes

1. That book and lecture series was recommended by Marcel Dumas Gautreau in Right Wing Reading Rainbow I, the first of a series of book recommendations. I’ll try to work my way through them this year. ↩

2. Unfortunately, Njoya read only a screenshot of a fragment of the article posted by Marcel on Twitter, misinterpreted it as if the article was hostile to her, and then proceeded to have an embarrasing angry argument with Marcel while refusing to actually read the full article. ↩

3. Near the end of the article, Arctotherium briefly mentions several other right-wing revisionist views and dismisses them as wrong too, but I think many of them are actually correct. ↩