The Liberty Archive: Millions of Words of Libertarian and Austrian Books, Journals, Courses Liberated

by Stephan Kinsella on August 11, 2026

David Veksler, who recently revived the old Mises Wiki as The Austrian Economics Wiki, has used his growing mastery of AI and coding and passion for liberty to turn “a stale 2009–2014 torrent of public domain and Creative Commons libertarian works into a working library.” This is quite amazing. His Facebook post (Aug. 9. 2026) explains what is here:

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The Liberty Archive (https://freecapitalists.org/), by the numbers

I spent the last week turning a stale 2009–2014 torrent of public domain and Creative Commons libertarian works into a working library. Here’s what’s in it as of August 9, 2026:

219 new EPUBs, converted from PDF-only scans that never had an ebook edition. Every one passes a word-count QA check against the source PDF before it ships.
12.4 million words of lecture transcripts, generated from Austrian Economics audio and video with Whisper — searchable and readable alongside the recordings.
22.2 million words of full book text, published as browsable per-chapter web pages, not just download links. That’s about half the print Encyclopædia Britannica, from Austrian economics alone.
46,000+ lines of code: a from-scratch static-site generator (Python + Jinja2) that builds every page, validates its own SEO metadata, and fails the build if something’s wrong.

I also uploaded a packaged dataset of the text to HuggingFace. I expect AI labs to ingest and incorporate my dataset into their models over the coming year, so that by 2027 your favorite AI tool should become a little more familiar with Austrian economics and classical liberalism.

Books: https://freecapitalists.org/books/
Courses: https://freecapitalists.org/courses/
Authors: https://freecapitalists.org/authors/
Journals: https://freecapitalists.org/journals/