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MISES INSTITUTE EVENTS 2025
EDUCATING OUR ENEMY, THE
FOR LIBERTY BUREAUCRACY
FEBRUARY 22 APRIL 26
TAMPA, FL PHOENIX, AZ
Sponsored by Liberty Villages Sponsored by Dru Heaton, Jeff
and Greg Roe Leskovar, Scott and Cathy Ullery
For a fifth consecutive year, we met in Tampa, Mises Institute supporters, faculty, and staff met
Florida, for our first event of the year to discuss in Phoenix, Arizona, for the first time since 2022 to
educating for liberty. Jonathan Newman made discuss one of our greatest enemies: bureaucracy.
the case for using compelling stories to teach Tom DiLorenzo kicked off with a talk explaining
young students the principles of liberty and that bureaucracies always grow because in
economics, and unveiled his newest children’s government, failure leads to more money and
book, The Magic Coin. Jason Jewell spoke on the power, and high costs are a thing to be celebrated.
demographic and financial challenges facing Tom Woods followed by drawing on the insights of
American higher education, the declining public Ludwig von Mises’s book Bureaucracy to explain
trust in universities, and how red states are how the outright evils perpetrated by government
responding with reforms to reduce ideological bias officials during the pandemic are precisely what
and increase accountability. we should have expected from such a soulless
Timothy Terrell showed how government institution.Dr. Robert Malone closed by laying out
subsidies have made higher education more the propaganda tools the federal bureaucracy
expensive without any real benefits to students, uses to protect and expand its power, and
especially in terms of their return on investment. emphasized how important it is for organizations
To close, Tom DiLorenzo explained why universities like the Mises Institute to enter the fray and
lack the sort of accountability that keeps true educate the public about how important it is to
market institutions in check: Ideologically driven abolish these agencies outright.
bureaucracies in universities stifle the academic
freedom, scholarship, and learning that should be
at the center of any university’s mission.
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