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"Destroy the Fed!" Three little words became one of the most powerful chants in modern politics thanks to the presidential campaigns of Dr. Ron Paul. Against the backdrop of a global financial crisis, the Texas congressman was able to use the microphone of modern politics, forever changed by the internet and social media, to wake up a generation of Americans to the threat posed by banks. Central and fiat money. Washington's ideological gatekeepers and the corporate press were forced to acknowledge and attack a previously obscure school of economic thought now being talked about by college students, activists, and even the odd politician. Of course, no such move really happens overnight. The seeds of the international Austrian renaissance were planted when Ludwig von Mises escaped from World War II Europe and settled in the United States. With positions at New York University and the Foundation for Economic Education, Mises was able to develop a legion of followers both in academia and in the general public. Several seminar students of his at New York University, such as Israel Kirzner, Hans Sennholz, and Ralph Raico, became important Austrian scholars in their own right. However, Murray Rothbard was perhaps Mises's most important disciple, not only for his important contributions to economics, history, and political philosophy, but for his popular writings aimed at energizing a grassroots Austrolibertarian movement, far from the constraints of the ivory tower.