A continent that wrote the grammar of self-government — the Althing, the Hansa, the Swiss cantons — speaks today as if liberty were an American import. This is a lie we tell ourselves, and a convenient one. We choose the harder reading.
Read the manifestoThe 1871 book nobody read, and the 150 years of economic thought it started.
Applying the seen-and-unseen to the European fiscal debate, 175 years later.
On Iceland's medieval parliament, and what it still has to teach a continent of bureaucracies.
From the Icelandic Althing and the Swiss cantons to Bastiat in Paris, Menger in Vienna, Hayek in London, and Huerta de Soto in Madrid — liberty was not invented in 1776. By then, it had already been remembered.