Donald Devine is a legend in Washington, DC conservative circles, where he gained fame wrestling civil service bloat as head of Reagan's Office of Personnel Management. His new book The Enduring Tension: Capitalism and the Moral Order  starts with Schumpter's creative destruction and asks the tough question: can capitalism alone hold America together? Channeling Hayek, Devine argues that markets are critical but not sufficient. Free and equal individualism requires a mythos and a logos, a moral order rooted in God, morality, law, or tradition—otherwise we devolve into warring factions. Bureaucratic, centralized, and unworkable government perversely encourages these factions as America rejects its federalist structure and Thomist underpinnings. This is a challenging and far-ranging book, and an excellent one for readers concerned with the tension between Locke's liberty and politically engineered license.

Find The Enduring Tension: Capitalism and the Moral Order at https://Mises.org/DevineBook

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Chapter 13 of Breaking Away: The Case for Secession, Radical Decentralization, and Smaller Polities. 

Narrated by John Quattrucci.

Breaking Away: The Case for Secession, Radical Decentralization, and Smaller Polities

Chapter 13. If America Splits Up, What Happens to the Nukes?

Chapter 12 of Breaking Away: The Case for Secession, Radical Decentralization, and Smaller Polities. 

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Chapter 12. When It Comes to National Defense, It’s More than Size that Matters

Chapter 11 of Breaking Away: The Case for Secession, Radical Decentralization, and Smaller Polities. 

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Chapter 11. How Small Is Too Small?

Chapter 10 of Breaking Away: The Case for Secession, Radical Decentralization, and Smaller Polities. 

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Chapter 10. If California Secedes, What Happens to Locals Who Opposed Secession?

Chapter 9 of Breaking Away: The Case for Secession, Radical Decentralization, and Smaller Polities. 

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Chapter 9. From Taxes to Trade, More Secession Means More Freedom

Chapter 8 of Breaking Away: The Case for Secession, Radical Decentralization, and Smaller Polities. 

Narrated by John Quattrucci.

Chapter 8. Why the US Supports Secession for Africans, but Not for Americans

On this episode of Radio Rothbard, Ryan McMaken and Tho Bishop discuss Tucker Carlson's recent interview with Joe Rogan, and why he's right about America's dangerous "security" agencies.

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When a war occurs, the government feels that it's obliged to propound a certain line about how the enemy was totally responsible for this war: "We never did anything wrong! The enemy has committed terrible atrocities!"

Recorded at Mises University 2005 at the Mises Institute in Auburn, Alabama.

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