He Died for Our Sins (Not!)
April 5, 2015
I speak of course of Abraham Lincoln, as first deified by the nineteenth-century New England clergy (the original “warvangelicals”) and the Republican Party. Straussians and other card-carrying Lincoln cultists continue this sacrilegious tradition to this day.
Dr. Thomas DiLorenzo [send him mail] is a former professor of economics at Loyola University Maryland and a longtime member of the senior faculty of the Mises Institute. He is the author or co-author of eighteen books including The Real Lincoln; How Capitalism Saved America; Lincoln Unmasked; Hamilton's Curse; Organized Crime: The Unvarnished Truth About Government; The Problem with Socialism; and The Politically-Incorrect Guide to Economics.
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