We dive into the hit Broadway musical “Hamilton” that just hit Disney+ with a Hamilton scholar from the Mises Institute, Tho Bishop.
How did this become a huge, cultural phenomenon and how does it help shape history? When so many get their history from movies and pop culture, what does this “teach” that is inaccurate and if it does, to what end? Is the lens through which it was created now different in these short few years?
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Google Description for the film
Hamilton
The original Broadway production of the award-winning musical that tells the story of Alexander Hamilton, first secretary of the treasury, blending hip-hop, jazz, R&B and Broadway styles, filmed from the Richard Rogers Theater in New York.
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Our guest is Tho Bishop who is one of the few fans of Hamilton the man, at the Mises Institute. Tho is an assistant editor for the Mises Wire, and can assist with questions from the press. Prior to working for the Mises Institute, he served as Deputy Communications Director for the House Financial Services Committee. His articles have been featured in The Federalist, the Daily Caller, and Business Insider.
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This is Tho’s first appearance on the show and he was a font of knowledge and resources, so we will be sure to have him on again in the future.
Show Notes:
Here is the documentary by Ron Chernow that inspired the musical:
As we discussed, modern-day interpretations seem very different from just a few short years ago:
The expanded reach for Hamilton now that it is not just a Broadway show any longer:
https://decider.com/2020/07/06/how-many-people-watched-hamilton-disney-plus/
Kevin Gutzman article:
Tom Woods and Michael Malice Debate Hamilton in NYC on the following resolution: “Alexander Hamilton was a hero for the cause of liberty”:
Jorgensen/Cohen Anti-war campaign video:
Here is the Democrats pre-empting Trump’s attempt to disengage from Afghanistan:
House Democratic Leadership Teams Up With Republicans To Keep US Troops in Afghanistan
Conceived in Liberty, authored by Murray Rothbard, is a 5-volume narrative concerning the history of the United States from the pre-colonial period through the American Revolution.
There’s never been a more urgent time to remember the revolutionary and even libertarian roots of the American founding, and there’s no better guide to what this means in the narrative of the Colonial period than Murray Rothbard. Rothbard’s ambition was to shed new light on Colonial history and show that the struggle for human liberty was the heart and soul of this land from its discovery through the culminating event of the American Revolution. This volume is a tour de force, enough to establish Rothbard as one of the great American historians. This single book (volumes 1–4) covers the discovery of the Americas and the colonies in the 17th century, the period of “salutary neglect” in the first half of the 18th century, the advance to revolution, from 1760–1775 and the political, military, and ideological history of the revolution and after.
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And here is Hans-Hermann Hoppe’s book that we mentioned, “Democracy the God That Failed”:
Tho’s recommendations:
Hamilton’s Curse
Mises: The Last Knight of Liberalism
Aaron Burr Biography:
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