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Economics

What's Wrong with Textbook Economics

A chapter-by-chapter Austrian critique of textbook economics, examining how human action, entrepreneurship, prices, capital, money, state intervention, growth, trade, employment, inflation, and debt shape economic life.

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Jeffrey M. Herbener

Chair and Professor of Economics · Grove City College

Economics

32 lessons

19h 12m

John Maynard Keynes: His System and Its Fallacies

Examine Keynes’s system of GDP accounting, consumption, investment, money, employment, and stimulus, then evaluate Austrian criticisms centered on saving, time preference, capital maintenance, and the structure of production.

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G.P. Manish

Visiting Scholar · Free Market Institute, Texas Tech University

Economics

24 lessons

18h 36m

History of Economic Thought, Part II: 20th Century Economics

Trace twentieth-century economics from marginalism and socialist calculation through Keynesian, monetarist, growth, game-theoretic, and public-choice frameworks, comparing how rival traditions explain prices, welfare, institutions, policy, and economic change.

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Robert Murphy

Economist and Author · Consulting by RPM

Economics

23 lessons

16h 38m

History of Economic Thought, Part I: Classical Economics and the Marginal Revolution

Trace economic thought from scholastic and classical debates through the marginal revolution, comparing theories of value, exchange, money, trade, production, capital, interest, and market coordination.

RM

Robert Murphy

Economist and Author · Consulting by RPM

Economics

35 lessons

16h 36m

Austrian Economics, Step by Step

A systematic introduction to Austrian economics, connecting purposeful human action and subjective value to prices, production, capital, financial markets, business cycles, fiscal policy, and competing economic systems.

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Jeffrey M. Herbener

Chair and Professor of Economics · Grove City College

Economics

10 lessons

12h 44m

American Economic History, Part III

Trace American economic history from the 1920s boom through the post-2008 Federal Reserve regime, examining depression, war, welfare, monetary orders, stagnation, financial crises, and changing living standards.

JM

Jeffrey M. Herbener

Chair and Professor of Economics · Grove City College

Economics

15 lessons

13h 53m

American Economic History, Part II

Trace the transformation of the American economy from the Civil War through 1921 by examining wartime finance, banking panics, industrial development, regulation, living standards, and federal intervention.

JM

Jeffrey M. Herbener

Chair and Professor of Economics · Grove City College

Economics

26 lessons

14h 36m

American Economic History, Part I

Trace American economic development from European colonization through 1860, examining property, trade, production, labor, transportation, fiscal policy, banking, slavery, and recurring crises through an Austrian economic-history framework.

JM

Jeffrey M. Herbener

Chair and Professor of Economics · Grove City College

American History & Government

27 lessons

15h 42m

U.S. History Since 1877

Survey American history from the Gilded Age through the early twenty-first century, examining industrialization, reform, war, economic crisis, civil rights, presidential power, and the continuing expansion of federal authority.

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Hunt Tooley

Professor of History · Austin College

American History & Government

30 lessons

14h 22m

U.S. Constitutional History

Trace American constitutional development from colonial self-government and independence through ratification, federalism, sectional crisis, Reconstruction, Progressivism, the New Deal, civil rights, and modern judicial and executive power.

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Brion McClanahan

Historian and Author · The Brion McClanahan Show

American History & Government

30 lessons

18h 39m

U.S. History to 1877

Survey American history from distinct colonial cultures and the Revolution through constitutional conflict, territorial expansion, sectional crisis, Civil War, and the contested reconstruction of the Union.

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Brion McClanahan

Historian and Author · The Brion McClanahan Show

American History & Government

13 lessons

6h

The Thomas Jefferson Nobody Knows

Trace Thomas Jefferson’s life from colonial Virginia through revolution, national office, and retirement, examining the achievements, constitutional ideas, personal relationships, and contradictions that shaped his contested legacy.

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Kevin R. C. Gutzman

Professor of History · Western Connecticut State University

American History & Government

14 lessons

7h 42m

Trails West: How Freedom Settled the West

Explore how migration, republican ideals, Indigenous cultures, ecological change, federal policy, and enduring myths shaped western settlement—and complicated its association with American freedom.

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Bradley Birzer

Professor of History · Hillsdale College

American History & Government

20 lessons

10h 41m

The Early Republic, 1807-1820

Explore how war, expansion, constitutional conflict, religious revival, literature, and democratic thought reshaped the early American republic while exposing persistent tensions over power, liberty, race, and national identity.

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Bradley Birzer

Professor of History · Hillsdale College

American History & Government

19 lessons

10h 50m

The American Revolution: A Constitutional Conflict

Examine the American Revolution as a constitutional conflict over sovereignty, representation, rights, and self-government, from Britain’s imperial crisis through independence, confederation, constitutional reform, and the Revolution’s contested legacy.

KR

Kevin R. C. Gutzman

American History & Government

22 lessons

11h 54m

The 10 Worst and 10 Best Presidents

Evaluate twenty presidents through an originalist framework focused on the constitutional oath, limited executive power, federalism, legislative authority, war powers, civil liberties, and presidential accountability.

BM

Brion McClanahan

Historian and Author · The Brion McClanahan Show

American History & Government

90 lessons

36h 43m

Introduction to Government

A wide-ranging introduction to political authority examines rights, consent, markets, intervention, constitutionalism, competing political systems, public-choice incentives, and historical cases to evaluate government’s purposes, limits, consequences, and possible alternatives.

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Tom Woods

Author, Historian, and Podcast Host · The Tom Woods Show

American History & Government

12 lessons

4h 26m

How Alexander Hamilton Screwed Up America

Trace how Hamilton’s constitutional arguments, early federal policies, and the Marshall Court’s doctrines shaped a nationalist tradition that expanded federal power and constrained state authority.

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Brion McClanahan

Historian and Author · The Brion McClanahan Show

Western Civilization & World History

42 lessons

21h 39m

Western Civilization to 1500

Trace Western civilization from ancient Near Eastern and Hebrew foundations through Greece, Rome, Christianity, Byzantium, Islam, and medieval Europe to the crises that reshaped society before 1500.

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Jason Jewell

Professor of Humanities · Faulkner University

Western Civilization & World History

42 lessons

22h 13m

Western Civilization Since 1500

Trace Western civilization from Renaissance humanism and religious reform through state-building, revolution, industrialization, nationalism, global warfare, the Cold War, and the development of European and international institutions.

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Jason Jewell

Professor of Humanities · Faulkner University

Western Civilization & World History

165 lessons

66h 19m

Western Civilization From 1493

Trace Western civilization from the Reformation through revolutions, industrialization, ideological conflict, world wars, decolonization, the Cold War, and globalization, with sustained attention to liberty, state power, religion, economics, and culture.

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Tom Woods

Author, Historian, and Podcast Host · The Tom Woods Show

Western Civilization & World History

180 lessons

67h 51m

Western Civilization to 1492

Survey Western civilization from its Hebrew, Greek, Roman, Christian, and Germanic foundations through medieval institutions, Renaissance humanism, political centralization, and the transformative encounters of the Age of Discovery.

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Tom Woods

Author, Historian, and Podcast Host · The Tom Woods Show

Western Civilization & World History

2 lessons

The History and Heritage of Western and American Civilization

Examine Western and American civilization from Genesis through the Cold War through contextualized primary documents, classroom lectures, and discussions that place thinkers such as Aristotle and Tocqueville within a broad historical narrative.

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Bradley Birzer

Professor of History · Hillsdale College

Western Civilization & World History

13 lessons

7h 43m

Crimes of Communism

Survey communist ideology, state repression, revolutionary violence, forced labor, famine, persecution, espionage, and resistance across the Soviet Union, Eastern Europe, Asia, Africa, Latin America, and Afghanistan.

JJ

Jason Jewell

Professor of Humanities · Faulkner University

Western Civilization & World History

10 lessons

7h 33m

Colonial Latin American History

Explore colonial Latin America from pre-Columbian civilizations and Iberian expansion through conquest, colonial institutions, labor, religion, intellectual life, and the reforms and grievances that prepared the way for independence.

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Dedra McDonald Birzer

Publisher and Editor-in-Chief · South Dakota Historical Society Press

Western Civilization & World History

14 lessons

8h 33m

History of England

Trace England’s development from Roman Britain and Anglo-Saxon kingdoms through medieval monarchy, Tudor and Stuart upheavals, imperial and industrial power, world war, postwar reform, and contemporary Britain.

JJ

Jason Jewell

Professor of Humanities · Faulkner University

Political Thought & Ideas

30 lessons

19h 28m

The History of Conservatism and Libertarianism

Trace the intertwined histories of conservatism, classical liberalism, and libertarianism from their Anglo-American and European foundations through nineteenth-century transformations, postwar movements, and contemporary political and cultural disputes.

JJ

Jason Jewell

Professor of Humanities · Faulkner University

Political Thought & Ideas

7 lessons

3h 33m

The Great Reset

A critical examination of the Great Reset’s historical development, stakeholder economics, sustainability agenda, climate politics, emerging digital technologies, governance implications, and proposed forms of economic, political, and personal resistance.

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Michael Rectenwald

Author and Former Professor · Independent Author

Political Thought & Ideas

20 lessons

5h 48m

Introduction to Logic

Build a practical foundation in formal and informal logic by translating propositions, testing categorical and hypothetical syllogisms, tracing immediate inferences, diagramming arguments, and diagnosing recurring fallacies.

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Gerard Casey

Professor Emeritus of Philosophy · University College Dublin

Political Thought & Ideas

59 lessons

24h 13m

Freedom’s Progress: The History of Political Thought, Part II

Trace modern political thought from Reformation resistance and sovereignty through liberalism, social contract, Marxism, anarchism, war, totalitarianism, and twentieth-century debates over liberty, coercion, property, state power, and social order.

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Gerard Casey

Political Thought & Ideas

42 lessons

14h 19m

Freedom's Progress: The History of Political Thought, Part I

Trace political thought from ancient societies through Greek, Roman, Christian, medieval, and Reformation debates about authority, law, liberty, property, slavery, resistance, and the foundations of political order.

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Gerard Casey

Professor Emeritus of Philosophy · University College Dublin

Political Thought & Ideas

12 lessons

6h 13m

Critical Theory, Cultural Studies, and Postmodern Theory

Examine how Frankfurt School critical theory, British cultural studies, and postmodern thought revise Marxism through competing accounts of culture, language, power, knowledge, subjectivity, and individual agency.

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Michael Rectenwald

Political Thought & Ideas

18 lessons

6h 32m

A History of Free Thought

Trace three millennia of free thought as resistance to religious and political orthodoxy, from ancient rationalism and medieval dissent through Enlightenment criticism, nineteenth-century naturalism, and modern civil-liberties advocacy.

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Michael Rectenwald

Author and Former Professor · Independent Author

Literature, Myth & Science Fiction

16 lessons

9h 33m

Science Fiction, Liberty, and Dystopia, Part I

Explore how science fiction and dystopian literature test liberty, individuality, faith, technology, ideology, and political perfection through imagined societies and the choices of irreducible human persons.

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Bradley Birzer

Professor of History · Hillsdale College

Literature, Myth & Science Fiction

16 lessons

8h 26m

Science Fiction, Liberty, and Dystopia, Part II

Explore Golden Age science fiction’s competing visions of liberty, technology, conformity, identity, cultural memory, and human destiny across literature, comics, horror, film, and television.

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Bradley Birzer

Professor of History · Hillsdale College

Literature, Myth & Science Fiction

17 lessons

9h 12m

Mythology and Western Civilization: From Plato to Tolkien

Explore how classical, Christian, and Tolkienian myth connects Logos, natural law, freedom, community, heroism, and resistance to power across the developing inheritance of Western civilization.

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Bradley Birzer

Professor of History · Hillsdale College

Literature, Myth & Science Fiction

14 lessons

9h 3m

Little Houses of Liberty: Laura Ingalls Wilder’s Literary Genius

Explore how Laura Ingalls Wilder transformed pioneer memory into enduring literature, tracing the Little House series’ artistry, historical tensions, family economies, moral development, and vision of responsible liberty.

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Dedra McDonald Birzer

Literature, Myth & Science Fiction

15 lessons

8h 3m

Libertarianism and Science Fiction: The Golden Age from Bradbury to Roddenberry

Explore how Golden Age science fiction, comics, horror, and television used imagined worlds to examine individual liberty, conformity, technology, political power, cultural loss, and humanity’s uncertain future.

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Bradley Birzer

Literature, Myth & Science Fiction

20 lessons

18h 35m

Introduction to American Literature: Our Best Short Stories

Explore the development of the American short story from Irving and Poe to O’Connor, examining how narrative craft, regional voices, social conflict, moral choice, and changing literary movements shape American experience.

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Elizabeth Kantor

Author and Editor · Independent Author

Professor of History · Western Connecticut State University

Professor Emeritus of Philosophy · University College Dublin

Author and Former Professor · Independent Author

Publisher and Editor-in-Chief · South Dakota Historical Society Press

Professor of History · Hillsdale College