Images of Liberty and Power

• See my collection of "Images of Liberty and Power" which is divided into "Art and Politics" and "War and Art"
• The 18thC French Robin Hood: the Anti-Tax Smuggler Louis Mandrin (1725-1755)
• "The Art of the Levellers" - a collection (with commentary) of some of the more interesting title pages of Leveller pamphlets from the 1640s, some of which contain striking woodcuts as illustrations
• The Cover Art of the Discours: a collection of interesting covers of various editions of Boétie's "Discourse on Voluntary Servitude"
• an illustrated "Bastiat for Dummies" - FEE's illustrated edition of The Law from the late 1940s
• an illustrated version of Hayek's The Road to Serfdom (1945)
• A Lecture on Art and Propaganda: "The Culture of Obedience and the Subversion of State Propaganda" (IHS Summer Seminar, June 2015) (PDF of images)
• An Anti-Socialist Cartoon from 1848 : Amédée de Noé, dit Cham, "Ce qu'on appelle des idées nouvelles en 1848" (What are called "New Ideas" in 1848). [Discussed here.]
• My article on “War and Peace in the Arts,” in New Dictionary of the History of Ideas (2005).
• A lecture on "Pablo Picasso (1881-1973): From the Spanish Civil war to Vietnam"

[See the archive.]

Film & Fiction

• "Some Thoughts on an 'Austrian Theory of Film': Ideas and Human Action in a Film about Frédéric Bastiat" [Full paper in HTML and PDF - Slides]
• "Broken Windows". A Screenplay about the Life and Work of Frédéric Bastiat (1801-1850) with an accompanying Illustrated History of the Life and Work Frédéric Bastiat.
• a collection of guides to War Films and a list of my favourites
• A Paper on "Dulce et decorum est pro patria mori: The Idea of the "Sweet and Fitting Death for the Fatherland" and its Critics in Selected War Films"
• A Paper on "Responses to War: War Films and the Teaching of History"
• Some clips from films I have used in lectures

[See the archive.]

War & Peace

• To commemorate the 100th anniversary of the start of WW1 which, among other things, destroyed the liberal poltiical and economic order which had been built up in the second half of the 19th century, we have put online some volumes of the Journal des économistes from this period. One should note the multi-part series on the origins of the war written by the editor Yves Guyot between August 1914 and April 1915 [PDF 16MB]. This was expanded and published as a book which is also available in French [PDF 23MB] and English [PDF 8MB].
• Journal dés économistes. Revue mensuelle de la science économique et de la statistique. Fondateur: Gilbert Guillaumin. Rédacteur en chef: Yves Guyot. (Paris: Librairie Félix Alcan. Maisons Félix Alcan et Guillaumin réunis, 108, Boulevard Saint-Germain):
  • 6e série. Tome XLIII. Juillet à sept. 1914 [PDF 30MB] [ToC]
  • 6e série. Tome XLIV. Oct. à déc. 1914 [PDF 23MB] [ToC]
  • 6e série. Tome XLV, Janvier à mars 1915 [PDF 27MB] [ToC]
  • 6e série. Tome XLVI. Avril à juin 1915 [PDF 41MB] [ToC]
• A collection of books on war by Bloch, Hirst, Guyot, Wilfred Owen, Hasek, Friedrich, et al.
• "War and Art" and "War Films"
• A speech on ANZAC Day 25 April 2014, “How we Remember War” [PDF].
• Lecture on "War and Peace in the Art of Pablo Picasso: "Guernica" (1937)"
• Some clips from war films

[See the archive.]

Fun Stuff

• Songs & Limericks about Liberty
• Bastiat, "Damn Keynesians" [400px]
• Daumier, King Louis Philippe as "Gargantua" the tax-eater [900px]
• Obama "Knitting some New Jobs" [578px]
• Video Clips:
  • " The Constitutional Peasants" from Monty Python and the Holy Grail (1975)
  • " The Civil Service pay rise" from Yes, Prime Minister (1986)

Some Other Projects I have worked on

This is a list of some of the material I have edited and put online at the OLL website:

• Quotations about Liberty and Power: over 500 quotations with brief bios and analyses of their significance; organised by 30 topics
• Images of Liberty and Power: a collection of "illustrated essays" in which art and other images and their relationship to liberty is discussed
• Key Documents of Liberty: over 100 legal documents from the Code of Hammurabi to the early 19th century; a Pocket Guide to Political and Civic Rights (1215-1830); a Liberty Matters discussion of Magna Carta (May 2015);
• The OLL Reader: an anthology of some of the best material in the OLL collection; there are 78 items covering 12 topics providing an overview of classical liberal and free market thinking
• The Enhanced Books Project: a number of key books are prefaced by the Liberty Matters discussion related to the book, along with other material from the OLL (such as essays and bibliographies), e.g. John Locke, The Enhanced Edition of The Two Treatises of Government (1689)
• Liberty Matters Online Discussion Forum (2013-2019): 26 discussions by scholars of a key work or individual in the OLL collection.

Major Collections:

• Tracts on Liberty by the Levellers and their Critics (1638-1660), 7 vols. (2014-): a Summary; over 300 items listed in chronological order; an essay on The Art of the Levellers; and two Anthologies of Leveller writings: Agreements of the People, Petitions, Remonstrances, and Declarations (1646-1659) and The Levellers and the Origins of Anglo-American Constitutionalism
• The Works of Lysander Spooner (1808-1887), 5 vols. (2008-10): 36 items listed in chronological order by date of publication; 2nd ed. HTML; a Liberty Matters discussion of his work (Jan. 2016)
• The Political Writings of James Mill: Essays and Reviews on Politics and Society, 1815-1836: the first comprehensive collection of James Mill's political writings; a Liberty Matters discussion of his work (Sept. 2014)
• Trenchard and Gordon Project: a collection of The Independent Whig; an anthology of Gordon’s Political Discourses on Tacitus and Sallust: Tyranny, Empire, War, and Corruption (1728-1744) (2013); a Liberty Matters discussion of Trenchard's opposition to standing armies (Sept. 2016)